Mr. Britt of Time Warner also expressed caution about how quickly the cable companies could challenge phone companies that have the overwhelming share of the local telephone market.
Mr Elop even tries to segment the market, positioning the high-end, metallic-looking unibody Lumia 800 to compete head-on with the iPhone and top Android phones like the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S and Samsung Galaxy S II, while sending the Lumia 710 with its cheaper plastic body to challenge phones like HTC's Wildfire.
Outside of Washington, D.C., voters love the Internet that has been governed by Net Neutrality since its inception, until recently challenged by phone and cable companies that are willing kill free speech and innovation online in order to make a buck.
Comcast, the U.S.'s largest cable television company, plans to challenge local phone companies by offering Internet-based phone service in 20 markets this year, and in all of its markets by 2006.
Cablevision, one of the largest cable companies in the metropolitan area, will announce today a flat-rate plan for international calls, the latest example of how digital and Internet-based phone services from cable companies and start-ups like Vonage are challenging traditional phone carriers.
But a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the phone records program argues persuasively that this supposedly innocuous metadata can disclose as much about the private activities of phone subscribers as would eavesdropping on the contents of conversations.
After shareholders threatened lawsuits, they both decided to release transparency reports to customers after years of resisting, and Verizon made a half-hearted attempt to challenge the phone dragnet program.
The judge who freed Ms Roberts faulted her lawyer, now dead, for failing to challenge mobile-phone evidence that would probably have collapsed before a jury.
A few weeks ago, he challenged his listeners to phone in and reveal something they had never told their spouses.
I got as much information as possible about the hacking of my phone, then challenged them legally.
