But it may also spark renewed price competition between broadband service providers, such as phone companies like Verizon Communications pushing digital subscriber line service, and cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner offering cable modem service.

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He helped launch Time Warner's Road Runner cable modem service, the first Web site for Time Inc.

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Doherty, 42, formed Urban Media a year ago with two fellow founders of At-Home, a leading cable-modem service.

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