So, were the only two big satellite firms to merge, this would leave most Americans with a choice of one cable and one satellite operator.
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News of the outage came as another cable - the Main One cable linking Europe with Western Africa - was switched on.
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Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers.
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Another possibility, much discussed within the Treasury, would be a government-sponsored effort to encourage the private sector to lay state-of-the art fibre-optic cable in one or more of Britain's major cities.
Mr. Howey says he was watching cable news one day when he came up with the idea of a future where people get all of their information from a single, unreliable screen.
Moreover, in the few areas of America where one cable company has built over a rival's existing system, where a telephone company has set up an experimental system to deliver television signals, or where there is an old, municipally owned cable system as well as a private one, competition has led to lower prices (see chart).
Radio One is also expanding into cable, starting TV One, a black-oriented channel in January--teamed with powerhouse Comcast.
In a blistering letter in February to Michael Powell, the new chairman of the FCC, RadioShack, Circuit City and Sears argued that the encryption license is a self-preservation device that creates a double standard: one for the cable companies that own CableLabs and one for everyone else.
That does not affect consumers, who only have the choice of one cable company anyway.
One cable would talk to the keyboard, Bhatt recalls, while another would connect a modem.
By anyone's estimation, it's been a rocky couple of years for the premium cable outlet and one-time critical tastemaker.
Mr Cable told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show the value of this exercise was to "look at the alternatives".
It plans to buy more cable networks, one or more video-gaming businesses and other digital-media businesses to help it grow.
Comcast Cable Communications is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers.
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China also plans to fuse all of its cable companies into one, its ten regional airlines into three, and so on.
Why hasn't one cable news station switched over to high definition yet?
All sound bars connect easily to most HDTVs with just one cable.
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That's the same charging standard that the tablet uses, so in theory you could travel with just one cable and switch off as needed.
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Mr Cable told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show that property taxes were "the obvious place to go" if the government wanted to tax wealth.
But one cable company has balked at carrying Al Jazeera America: Time Warner Cable stopped carrying Current TV upon the announcement of the Al Jazeera deal.
Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the committee, said on my TV One Cable Network show, "Washington Watch, " that everything should be on the table.
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In other words, once customers switch from one cable service provider to another, they become captives of the new company that can change the rules on them.
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In an interview on my TV One Cable Network Sunday morning news show, "Washington Watch, " I talked with the top enlisted officer serving in Afghanistan, Command Sgt.
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In his July 1999 Gilder Technology Report, George writes that Lucent already possesses the know-how to cram 864 fiber-optic strands, each carrying 5 trillion bits per second, into one cable sheath.
There is an HDMI port for connecting to a display with just one cable and up to 8 USB 2.0 ports for connecting to printers, external storage, digital cameras and more.
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Even in rural areas, where customers often have only one cable TV option, competition from satellite service is increasing, though satellite providers are facing similar cost pressures and passing on higher bills.
In this case, Apple should have included more than one cable and even an adapter or two as a show of good faith, at least for the first year of the product launch.
The Thunderbolt Express Dock is a first-of-its-kind docking solution for both PC and Mac users that enables instant access to up to nine desktop peripherals with one cable, and provides an easy transition from a desktop workstation to a mobile device.
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Without getting into the nuts and bolts of why each carrier can (and often does) offer up a different set of HD options across different markets, you can rest assured that what one cable company offers in your town is probably vastly different than what's offered by the same carrier 2, 000 miles away.
Through these agreements, the cable companies, on the one hand, and Verizon Wireless, on the other, will become agents to sell one another's products and, over time, the cable companies will have the option of selling Verizon Wireless' service on a wholesale basis.
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