Your cable operator decides what television networks it will offer, and on what channel.
Adelphia is the nation's fifth-largest cable operator, with 5.3 million customers in 31 states.
But executives at Comcast, a big American cable operator, seem not to have read it.
No existing cable operator or TV player or ADSL -- there's nothing, there's just mobile.
In large swaths of this country, the incumbent cable operator faces a fiber-based telco offering triple-play packages.
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In other words, the FCC removed one of several ways a cable operator can violate the Cable Act.
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NTL, Britain's biggest cable operator, has had to abandon plans to buy its software from a third company.
The dispute centers on the rate that MSG asked for the cable operator to pay to carry its channels.
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But there's more at stake here than just which company becomes the No. 1 or No. 2 cable operator.
Bach said that Xbox Live now has more than twice the hours of high-def content as any cable operator.
Cox, the third-biggest cable operator, appears to be pursuing a separate wireless push.
Comcast is currently America's largest cable operator, with more than 21 million subscribers.
Satellite broadcasters were added after the Supreme Court decided in 1991 that a direct-broadcast satellite company was a cable operator.
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The company is the sixth-largest cable operator in the country, with 3 million subscribers in the New York metropolitan area.
With six million subscribers, Cox is the third-largest cable operator in the U.S., offering service mainly in the South and Southwest.
In April, political opposition in America led to his withdrawal of a bid for Global Crossing, a bankrupt American cable operator.
When Malone arrived, TCI was a top-10 cable operator, with 400, 000 subscribers.
Some 44m homes will soon have access to their cable operator's choice from 32 news channels, about ten of them in English.
He's also sniffing around Quebecor, a television and newspaper conglomerate that recently outmaneuvered Rogers in a bid for cable operator Le Groupe Vidotron.
Specific to set-top boxes, Sony has announced a product dubbed Passage, which is a operating system that can link with any cable operator.
Biscom, a Milan-based broadband cable operator whose stock is currently buried in a deep trench, along with a host of other, bigger telecom companies.
But consider: No major cable operator has signed a long-term contract for Gemstar's TV GuideInteractive the company's main growth engine since it was launched last year.
The country's largest cable operator by subscribers continued to shed video subscribers, but it slowed the rate of losses for a seventh consecutive quarter.
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Vodafone is weighing a bid for German cable operator Kabel Deutschland, a move that would strengthen the mobile phone giant's position in Europe's largest economy.
But while the act requires that cable systems not engage in anticompetitive behavior toward independent programmers, there is no requirement that a cable operator carry any particular independent programmer.
At the time, cable operator Seacom said several lines connecting Europe with Africa, the Middle East and Asia were hit, also slowing down internet services, reported Reuters news agency.
Martin is also bullish on Time Warner because of its acquisition of cable operator Adelphia, which will be accretive to earnings and create a "separate currency" for the company's cable assets.
For years, whenever the cable guy was late for an installation, John Malone took his share of the blame-he was, after all, running the biggest cable operator in the U.S. No more.
Cable firm NTL said in August it had 300, 000 high speed subscribers, while the UK's second cable operator, Telewest, claimed 192, 000 broadband customers in the higher band of 152 kilobits per second.
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