In Scandinavia, says Mr Paltridge, the cable infrastructure is often owned by incumbent telecoms firms.
When will local telephony over your cable infrastructure and these new sorts of interactive television be broadly available in your markets? A. By the end of the year we will have 400,000 to 500,000 telephony subscribers on our cable infrastructure.
He was investing heavily in upgrading the company's cable infrastructure at a time when the analysts universally agreed that "content is king".
By shedding AOL and its cable infrastructure businesses, Time Warner is placing added weight on operations that have been relatively invisible, like TV production.
But the cable infrastructure required costly upgrades, and Ma Bell's domineering ways clashed with the cable firms' culture of co-operation.Barely a year later, as the stockmarket turned on telecoms firms, AT&T faced a debt crisis.
It is clear that mobile is leading the way across Africa, and like many emerging countries, they skipped right past the cable infrastructure that tethers much of western country communication to expensive and aging technology.
"AOL hasn't gone out with D.S.L. the way they will be when the Time Warner cable infrastructure is in place, while EarthLink has been very aggressive in their broadband rollouts," said Zia Daniell Wigder, senior analyst at Jupiter Media Metrix.
Notoriously peso-pinching, he seems unlikely to bid for free-to-air spectrum when he already has cable infrastructure in place.A stroke of the president's pen could let Mr Slim switch on his cable network and compete with Televisa.
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