There are many older optical fibers, but low-light-loss ones are vital for telephone cable.
In some cities, telephone poles not only carry power lines at the top, they carry one, two, or three runs of fiber or telephone cable placed on the poles by the telephone company, the cable company, and perhaps the city itself.
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Telephone and cable TV services still belong to monopoly providers in most towns, but the airwaves are naturally conducive to competition.
In the U.S. and Britain, telephone, cable and wireless stocks are hot.
Sussex Police are working alongside Kent Police in a campaign to raise awareness of the increase in the theft of telephone copper cable.
He was lobbying U.S. senators to approve a plan that would prevent telephone and cable companies from collecting premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
Currently accounting for 40% of its business, Rapp foresees enhanced services becoming Cape.com's entire business within a couple of years, as the telephone and cable companies move aggressively into the access market.
Their Everyday Price Index (EPI) strips away the cost of big-ticket items, like homes and cars, and looks at the cost of things that consumers encounter on a daily or monthly basis, such as groceries, prescription medicine, and telephone and cable bills.
So, right now, it's really this open community, which is what the Internet was all designed initially to be, and now, a lot of folks are saying - big telecommunications and major companies like that, the largest telephone and cable companies are really trying to be gatekeepers in deciding which website go fast or slow or which won't load at all, and that could cause competition within the industry.
But increasing numbers of users are ditching their phone-company-owned phone lines and relying on just a cable telephone.
Cox is known for its pioneering efforts in cable telephone and commercial services, industry-leading customer care and its outstanding workplaces.
The obvious competitors are telephone companies, cable TV operators and satellites.
In addition, there are ever more distribution paths: wireless, telephone lines, cable and satellite all potentially compete to carry facts and fun into people's homes.
It bought a privately owned Finnish company, Martis Oy, in 1993 and is selling cable telephone systems in the Netherlands, in partnership with Dutch company A2000.
Talk about rank, crass hypocrisy: cable-tv companies in the U.S. are aggressively offering consumers telephone service over their cable lines, and they do so without being burdened by many of the regulatory obstacles with which traditional carriers, such as SBC and Verizon, must cope.
Additional growth opportunities for Televisa lie in "triple-play" packages of cable, telephone and Internet access.
Access to private high-speed Internet networks through cable and telephone companies was pretty limited.
Instead they are providing television sets that can be plugged into the Web via a telephone line or television cable.
When we come out the other side, we'll have the choice of our telephone company versus our cable-television company for the same big bundle of services.
They can vigorously enforce antitrust laws and maintain a pro-competitive bias to securing equal access for service providers to such networks as telephone, wireless and cable systems.
Cable and telephone companies can run all kinds of high-bandwidth wires to your neighborhood, but they're still constrained by old low-tech connections from their substation to your computer.
Cable and telephone companies won a victory in Congress yesterday.
The crash caused a ground fire at the point of impact, possibly knocking down cable or telephone lines, said Dennis Shell, a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Authority.
If Vonage did manage to survive Verizon s legal attacks, it would still be in a difficult position as a small, stand-alone VoIP provider in a market full of telephony giants that offer bundled telephone, VoIP and cable packages.
And it is far from clear that people will want to buy all their services from one supplier, even if they can be beamed down from the sky without having to bother with a cable or telephone line.
Under the banner "Save the Internet, " a noisy coalition of mainly Democratic groups and tech firms like eBay and Microsoft is pressing for language that would require cable and telephone companies to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing on their networks.
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The U.S. cable industry now has 25 million digital cable customers, 20 million high-speed Internet customers and 3 million telephone customers, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA).
And we can use fibre optic cable for the telephone cables and thus have more copper to use for the water pipes.
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He is convinced that consumers will see big benefits from the bundling of heat, light, cable television and telephone services provided by, and serviced by, a single company.
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