The migration of original programming online has been among the biggest themes in entertainment over the last few months, with House of Cards
making cable operators stand up and take notice as audiences adjust to watching entertainment on computers and mobile devices.
Not exact matches
The Frisco, Texas - based company
makes software for telecoms and
cable TV
operators.
British mobile
operator Vodafone said on Wednesday it had
made an offer to buy Germany's biggest
cable company Kabel Deutschland.
A proposal similar to «common carrier» status for
cable operators was
made in 1986 by the Canadian Task Force on Broadcasting Policy, but it has not been implemented.
In addition, under the
Cable Communications Policy Act,
cable operators are now required to
make available by lease or sale a lock - box device which allows the subscriber to use a key to lock out the viewing of a particular
cable service.
It's why the largest wireless
operators are spending millions of dollars each year in lobbying to
make sure rules for new spectrum auctions are written in a way that favors their interests, and it's why there has been so much wheeling and dealing around Verizon's move to buy wireless spectrum from a consortium of
cable operators.
RCN Partners with TiVo; the
cable operator will
make TiVo its primary DVR platform in 2010, will integrate RCN's VOD as well as TiVo's broadband services.
BelAir has been successful with domestic
cable operators because it can hang its Strand access point directly off the fiber - coax strung across fiber utility in any city,
making it very easy for a
cable company to get Wi - Fi up quickly and cheaply.