But increasing numbers of users are ditching their phone-company-owned phone lines and relying on just a cable telephone.
Cox is known for its pioneering efforts in cable telephone and commercial services, industry-leading customer care and its outstanding workplaces.
It bought a privately owned Finnish company, Martis Oy, in 1993 and is selling cable telephone systems in the Netherlands, in partnership with Dutch company A2000.
In some cities, telephone poles not only carry power lines at the top, they carry one, two, or three runs of fiber or telephone cable placed on the poles by the telephone company, the cable company, and perhaps the city itself.
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Additional growth opportunities for Televisa lie in "triple-play" packages of cable, telephone and Internet access.
Access to private high-speed Internet networks through cable and telephone companies was pretty limited.
Cable and telephone companies can run all kinds of high-bandwidth wires to your neighborhood, but they're still constrained by old low-tech connections from their substation to your computer.
Cable and telephone companies won a victory in Congress yesterday.
The crash caused a ground fire at the point of impact, possibly knocking down cable or telephone lines, said Dennis Shell, a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Authority.
And it is far from clear that people will want to buy all their services from one supplier, even if they can be beamed down from the sky without having to bother with a cable or telephone line.
Under the banner "Save the Internet, " a noisy coalition of mainly Democratic groups and tech firms like eBay and Microsoft is pressing for language that would require cable and telephone companies to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing on their networks.
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There are many older optical fibers, but low-light-loss ones are vital for telephone cable.
And we can use fibre optic cable for the telephone cables and thus have more copper to use for the water pipes.
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He is convinced that consumers will see big benefits from the bundling of heat, light, cable television and telephone services provided by, and serviced by, a single company.
In many countries telecoms operators have been converting some of their last-mile connections to high-speed fibre-optic links, though cable networks and telephone wires still account for most last-mile connections.
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.
It offers 56 megabits per second over a 30-mile radius. (The current standard is 11 megabits per second over a half-mile.) Wi-Max antennas on roofs and water towers will spring up like crazy and may begin to threaten the cable and local telephone empires.
Telephone and cable TV services still belong to monopoly providers in most towns, but the airwaves are naturally conducive to competition.
In the U.S. and Britain, telephone, cable and wireless stocks are hot.
Sussex Police are working alongside Kent Police in a campaign to raise awareness of the increase in the theft of telephone copper cable.
The competition between cable, satellite and telephone companies remains fierce and it is conceivable that Apple could come in and mix up the playing field.
He was lobbying U.S. senators to approve a plan that would prevent telephone and cable companies from collecting premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
Verizon Communications Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg literally started his career in the phone industry at the bottom, descending into manholes to splice cable for New York Telephone.
And so, there was never any worry that a carrier, whether it was a cable company or a telephone company, was helping one website, or one portal over the other.
Television, radio, cable, satellite and telephone companies still wage tong wars against one another for special regulatory advantages, even though the Internet has obliterated the traditional boundaries between these segments.
Imagine if Apple partnered with a cable, satellite or telephone company as a device for some period of exclusivity on that network, and simply provided a much better user experience.
Currently accounting for 40% of its business, Rapp foresees enhanced services becoming Cape.com's entire business within a couple of years, as the telephone and cable companies move aggressively into the access market.
Unshackled, entrepreneurs would find ways to team up with existing holders of rights of way, such as cable, gas and telephone companies, railroads and highways, to run power lines to new customers, e.g.
Their Everyday Price Index (EPI) strips away the cost of big-ticket items, like homes and cars, and looks at the cost of things that consumers encounter on a daily or monthly basis, such as groceries, prescription medicine, and telephone and cable bills.
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