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.
Louis the oomph to cross the Atlantic, introduced the first cable modems nearly two decades ago but pulled them when they proved to be ahead of their time.
The court declared that Federal Communications Commission cross-ownership rules that had prevented one company from owning TV stations and cable franchises in the same market no longer served the public interest.
Much of that investment will go toward converting shows into digital cable format, building an ad sales division and paying to beam programming cross-country by satellite.
Many higher-end companies offer two different cables that cross things over a pinch differently, but there seems to be no actual benefit to this bonus cable.