Bharti's unit, Network i2i Ltd, owns the submarine communications cable network by the same name that connects India to Singapore.

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Led by the fast-talking David McCourt , RCN (as in Residential Communications Network) once bragged it would wire up 9 million cable, phone and Internet users among 25 million homes mostly in the northeastern corridor.

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In 1995, Malone, 66, turned to Diller when he needed to pass on control of his Silver King Communications, the parent company of TV shopping network HSN, due to cable regulations.

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