Instead, Telewest merged with Flextech, leaving Mr Singer with a company that today is worth £6.7 billion ($9.9 billion) and another idea in need of a bit of substance.The problem for telcos, says Mr Singer (he regards cable companies as telecoms firms, since that is their primary business in Britain) is competition.
British Transport Police (BTP) said it regards cable theft second only to terrorism in its list of priorities, and a newly formed cross-ministerial group has met several times to discuss the problem.
Mr. Kent is a highly regarded cable operator who was hand-picked by Paul G. Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, to lead Mr. Allen's drive into the cable business.
Your recent article regarding cable rates ["As Cable Rates Rise, So Do Complaints," Dec. 3] presented an uneven view of Cablevision, its service, rates, level of competition and consumer feedback.
Satellite people have never liked cable's presence in the business, because they regard cable as the enemy.DirecTV gets some assets out of the deal, but it will not necessarily pick up Primestar's 2.3m subscribers.
Disney's highly regarded cable network business, which includes the ESPN sports channels and the Disney Channel, accounted last year for more than a third of its $2.82 billion of operating income.
Indeed, using it over RS-485 already makes it possible to overcome many of the traditional limitations regarding cable length, without requiring segmenting the bus to install repeaters.
A new study by ForeSee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index finds that U.S. consumers regard social media sites Facebook and Myspace as lowly as they regard cable providers, airlines and the I.R.S.
Regarding cable operators rolling out telephony and voice over Internet protocol, only Cablevision Systems "is firing on all cylinders" although Time Warner will be in the same position by the first quarter of 2005, with Comcast and Cox Communications "reaching this stage by the middle of 2005".
These pilot trials, combined with the case studies of current practice carried out at the companies, have highlighted a number of issues regarding cable design, particularly that immersive VR has a potentially unique role to play in the integration of cable harness electrical and mechanical design activities.
"We're not a dark comedy," explained Ames, which you don't really hear a lot with regards to cable sitcoms.
