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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Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable Communications and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal.

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Canoe is the New York venture established in 2008 by Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, among others.

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As previously announced, Turner Sports and The PGA of America will offer coverage of the PGA Championship in 3D on Thursday, Aug. 12 and Friday, Aug. 13, on PGA.com and through TNT's television distributors Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, DIRECTV and Time Warner Cable.

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But it may also spark renewed price competition between broadband service providers, such as phone companies like Verizon Communications pushing digital subscriber line service, and cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner offering cable modem service.

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If it expands to other parts of the U.S. it will find other broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable being pushed to do the same in January the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it wanted to see 1 Gbps ethernet speeds deployed in at least one community per state by 2015.

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Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ), Cox Communications and other big cable companies are working on VoIP offerings of their own.

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The emergence of three fast networks from Verizon Communications, Cingular and Sprint Nextel (which shrewdly is bundling with the powerful cable guys Comcast, Time Warner and Cox) will lead to badly needed discounting.

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