The Conference also suggested the introduction of regulations to ensure that some of the revenue from the growing cable sector be available for the development of cultural and development programming.
More broadly, competition may increasingly come from outside the telecommunications sector (in particular from cable and satellite industries).
Barclays pushed its price target higher for shares of Time Warner Cable as the sector has grown its profits to support higher share prices.
In a combination that would joint two companies in the cable television infrastructure sector, SeaChange is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Arris Group.
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Amid speculation about industrial action in response to public sector job losses, Business Secretary Vince Cable has drawn attention to what he says was the responsible attitude of unions to belt-tightening in the private sector.
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The Lib Dems Treasury spokesman Vince Cable welcomed more competition in the banking sector but said there should be no urgency to the sales.
YouTube's shift into premium paid-for channels raises the stakes in the fast-evolving online video sector, which is beginning to resemble the early days of cable television before it grew into a multibillion-dollar business.
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.
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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Meanwhile, data for May has shown copper and wire cable shipments rising 18% year on year to the construction sector, although down 21% to the auto sector.
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Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said an "absolute across-the-board freeze" in public sector pay did not make a "great deal of sense" because of different contractual obligations.
Similarly uplifting, the remainder of the TV sector performed strong as well, with network television up 11.6% care of the Winter Olympics and cable and Spanish language television gaining 8.2% and 7.2%, respectively.
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