Sentence examples for dropped cables from inspiring English sources

This was tossed over the top of a chimney by a deep-sea vehicle steered by remote control from the surface; once dropped, cables inside the device were tightened around the chimney.

Using Nielsen data, ESPN has determined that a paltry 0.11percentt of U.S. households have dropped cable and/or satellite TV over the past three months.

While it's hard to compare pricing across services, Starry should appeal to cord cutters, who have dropped cable TV for more affordable streaming alternatives and have been looking for a way to free themselves from large internet service providers.

He sits in his room watching television, the choices limited since he dropped cable to save money.

The environmental organization's website states, "We believe that throwing butryic [sic] acid at the whalers, dropping cables to foul their props, and threatening to ram them in the freezing waters of the Antarctic constitutes violence because of the potential consequences".

She canceled her home telephone service for a time and is considering dropping cable.

The chief threat is consumers' dropping cable subscriptions, known as cord-cutting, or à la carte pricing for networks.

Mr. Britt sounded skeptical about the concept that households would drop cable en masse for Internet alternatives, known as cord cutting.

It is a fantasy shared by many Americans: dropping cable television and its fat monthly bills and turning instead to the wide-open frontier of Internet video.

But the provider, and others like it, could change the pricing plans if many people begin to drop cable TV— essentially making up for losses on the television side by making broadband more expensive.

"Enough people drop cable and switch to DirecTV just for football that we have been able to notice it," said Fred Dressler, the executive vice president for programming at Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 cable provider.