That should be enough to keep him busy, but he says his new focus is CTH, a private cable-TV operator he bought with the Vacharaphol family (No. 14), owners of the Thai Rath newspaper, for an undisclosed sum.
The founding Dolan family has been trying to take the cable provider private since last October.
Since Cox Communications, a cable firm, went private in 2004, it has benefited from the lack of both short-term market pressure and Sarbanes-Oxley-related interference.
Access to private high-speed Internet networks through cable and telephone companies was pretty limited.
He urged Mr Cable to come before a private sitting of the committee if there was any sensitive information.
Moreover, in the few areas of America where one cable company has built over a rival's existing system, where a telephone company has set up an experimental system to deliver television signals, or where there is an old, municipally owned cable system as well as a private one, competition has led to lower prices (see chart).
Vince Cable lost responsibility for that decision when his private views became public after he was recorded by an undercover reporter declaring that "'I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we're going to win".
The big cable companies have all but crushed competition in the private sector and have been attempting to stop communities themselves from building the essential infrastructure in which these companies have been slow to invest.
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Nortel claims its Shasta 5000 BSN for aggregated DSL or cable offers services such as network-based firewalls, virtual private networking, and traffic engineering for several thousand subscribers over a single chassis.
Another possibility, much discussed within the Treasury, would be a government-sponsored effort to encourage the private sector to lay state-of-the art fibre-optic cable in one or more of Britain's major cities.
Mr Cable said that "mutual ownership" would be promoted, spreading worker ownership alongside private capital.
Meanwhile, Mr Lamb moves from his role as Mr Clegg's parliamentary private secretary to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, run by his fellow Lib Dem Vince Cable.
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