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11/21/2005
The Top 50 Most Influential Women in Cable (2005)
First the good news: There are more women in cable’s senior and middle-management ranks than ever. Now the bad news: There are still too few women in the top jobs. In addition, overall, the number of women at major cable companies is stagnant. WICT’s new PAR study shows the needle is stuck at about 37% […]
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09/01/2005
Road Tripper's Guide to Wireless Convergence
You can't get there from here without good directions, so here's the lay of the wireless land.
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08/18/2005
VoIP
Insight launched its VoIP roll out in select areas of northeast IN. It plans to make VoIP available to remaining markets by year’s end. It offers circuit-switch phone in some markets. Like other MSOs, Insight says its phone service will distinguish itself from products like Vonage by providing higher quality reception on its own network. […]
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08/08/2005
Spinning Gold From Salsa
In a sense, cable’s experience with the Latino market illustrates perfectly the value of lessons learned at CTAM: Know your customer and examine your marketing and pricing strategies. It’s well known that cable operators fell behind DBS by failing to provide Latinos with a digital assortment of Spanish-language channels. While satellite began a Latino digital […]
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06/07/2005
Light the Way: CVC Rebranding LightPath; CEOs Not Shaking Over SBC Discount
Cablevision is gearing up to rebrand its commercial services business "LightPath" as "Optimum LightPath," a name that more closely associates it with the MSO’s residential service offerings, said COO Tom Rutledge during Deutsche Bank’s media conference Mon. He estimated that CVC passes more than a half million small businesses with monthly phone bills in the […]
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05/09/2005
Adelphia Transition Like Butter
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt estimates some 15% of Adelphia operations need to be completely rebuilt to TW standards, but after 9-12 months of regulatory approval and restructuring, most of the properties can be quickly integrated. More than $60mln has been set aside for that, he told a Morgan Stanley confab Fri, adding that […]