Telecom confab: cable on threshold of telephony. (cable television industry's entry into the data communications and voice business)

From: Multichannel News | Date: February 11, 1991| Author: Kim, Gary | Copyright information

Telecom Confab: Cable on Threshold of Telephony

Cable TV executives, who have been whispering in the corners about entry into the data communications and voice businesses, have now "come out of the closet," said Robert Pepper, head of the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy.

Pepper, speaking recently at a one-day conference on the cable TV industry's future in telecommunications, called local loop distribution "the last frontier," and added that he believes that t...

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