We created it seven years ago for WICT (Women in Cable Telecommunications), the premier association for women in the cable industry, and we conduct it for them a few times a year.
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Vonage, one of the leading VoIP vendors in the U.S., has over 400, 000 paying customers, and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association estimates there are already more than 450, 000 cable VoIP subscribers.
The agreement, said officials, would put in place three high-level rules for service providers, i.e. cable and telecommunications companies.
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Both cable and telecommunications providers are banking much of their future on being exclusive providers of TV, voice, data and wireless to homes.
The U.S. cable industry now has 25 million digital cable customers, 20 million high-speed Internet customers and 3 million telephone customers, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA).
"Today's Supreme Court decision is a victory for consumers and maintains the momentum to advance broadband in the U.S. Classifying cable modem service as an interstate information service, as the FCC did, keeps this innovative service on the right deregulatory path, " said a statement from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the industry's principal trade association.
The Omagh Enterprise Centre is a hub for Project Kelvin, a telecommunications cable linking Northern Ireland to the USA and Europe.
For anyone who'd cursed out their cable company, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 promised salvation by allowing competitors to "overbuild" on top of entrenched local cable companies.
North American sales were impacted by certain project delays and a winding down of U.S. stimulus spending on optical cable in support of telecommunications infrastructure projects.
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Still another reason for networks to pay up for the NFL: The popularity of NFL games gives them a big weapon in disputes over subscription fees with cable, satellite and telecommunications companies that sell TV service.
An original draft of a report by an advisory panel to the Federal Communications Commission, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, endorsed a list of concrete suggestions for major telecommunications and cable companies to tackle the cybersecurity problem.
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If the court rules against the cable companies, agreeing with the 9th Circuit that cable contains elements of a telecommunications service, it could give new life to small ISPs like Brand X, allowing them access to cable networks and providing a new stream of revenue.
In 1995 the commission approved rules which required accounting separation between telecommunications services and cable operations to prevent illegal cross-subsidization of the new services.
In the statement on his official Facebook page, Col Ali said the divers were arrested while "cutting the undersea cable" of the main telecommunications company, Telecom Egypt.
Now that Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling have been convicted, the parade of well-dressed miscreants--the cable TV pioneers, the telecommunications executives, star brokers and even a housekeeping diva who became the Gordon Gekkos for a whole new generation--is over.
There are questions however about how effective this directive will be in facilitating competition, because the two incumbents with the biggest cable operations, Deutsche Telekom (DT) and British Telecommunications, have already announced their plans to divest their cable operations.
To begin with, all the companies he acquires distribute wires, cables and connectors to the telecommunications, computer, cable TV or alarm industries.
More broadly, competition may increasingly come from outside the telecommunications sector (in particular from cable and satellite industries).
That effort was shot down by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the court left a door open for ISPs, ruling that cable transmissions had elements of both information and telecommunications services.
Now we hate all the feet dragging by cable operators in the US as much as the next, and wish the FCC would enforce the Telecommunications Act of 1996 already, but that doesn't mean that everything big cable does is evil, or that the FCC is useless.
Imposing inconsistent local regulations on providers of broadband technology "could undermine the development of intermodel competition, " between cable operators, telephone companies, providers of wireless telecommunications services, and satellite communications firms, the FCC brief says.
Ending a multiyear battle between Hollywood studios and telecommunications giants, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that cable operators could allow subscribers to store recorded shows on cable systems' massive central databases instead of in set-top boxes.
Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.
Six telecommunications companies have formed a consortium to build a submarine cable system linking Malaysia, Singapore, India and Sri Lanka with the Middle East, which could boost data connectivity significantly in the region as operators expand their data offerings to boost earnings.
So, right now, it's really this open community, which is what the Internet was all designed initially to be, and now, a lot of folks are saying - big telecommunications and major companies like that, the largest telephone and cable companies are really trying to be gatekeepers in deciding which website go fast or slow or which won't load at all, and that could cause competition within the industry.
With Congress poised to debate a major new telecommunications act this year, VoIP investors and providers--ranging from cable companies like Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) to pure-play vendors such as Vonage or Packet8 (nasdaq: EGHT - news - people )-- were hopeful that the new rules would be helpful to their cause.
They claim to have a magic box, a variation of a telecommunications switch that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile, that final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
They claim that they will have a magic box of telecommunications hardware and software that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile: the final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
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