He made three more fortunes--in cable television (Vision Cable Communications), mobile telephony (Metro Mobile) and gas pipelines (Southern Union).
Singapore Cable Vision, which has a 750-strong workforce, granted parents paid leave.
This will help SPH - which owns large stakes in Singapore Cable Vision and cellular phone company M1 - deliver multi-media content to PCs and bring data to handheld devices like Palm Pilots and third-generation mobile phones.
Since LIPA is a regulated monopoly, the company has no pressure from competitors to modernize by investing in new technologies and new ways of distributing electricity unlike the case of Verizon (NYSE:VZ), which in the last decade had to replace 100 years old copper wires with fiber optic cables to fend-off competition from Cable Vision (NYSE:CVC).
Above all, Kent had a vision to build a cable company that operated in second-tier suburban markets and college towns with low population density.
In Wolk's vision of the near future, cable companies will focus on using tablets that act as remote controls and TV guide replacements with baked-in second screen experiences.
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Some reckon BSkyB is trying to protect its pay-TV business against the looming threat of television over Internet, including BT's forthcoming "Vision" IPTV product and the newly enlarged cable concern NTL, which has added rival Telewest and the cell provider Virgin Mobile.
Some reckon BSkyB is trying to protect its pay-TV business against the looming threat of television over Internet, including BT (nyse: BT - news - people )'s forthcoming "Vision" IPTV product and the newly enlarged cable concern NTL (nasdaq: NTLI - news - people ), which has added rival Telewest and the cell provider Virgin Mobile.
Inasmuch as Mr Malone has a vision, it is that the combination of broadband cable with digital interactive television is creating an entirely new media industry and that Liberty is perfectly placed to shape it.
Business secretary Vince Cable's re-leaked letter which emerged last week said the government lacked "a compelling vision".
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