Telcos play distance learning leapfrog over cable. (telephone companies' educational network)
Multichannel News, February, 1991 by Malko, Connie
Telcos Play Distance Learning Leapfrog Over Cable Just as cable operators are trying to score points with their Cable in the Classroom program and by completing free cable hookups to schools by the end of 1992, they may find that the new game in town is a distance-learning network provided by a telephone company.
"Cable has come a long way in the last two years in hooking up schools. But the Baby Bells aren't going to sit back and say, 'Cable, you've got the action.' One of their big projects is hooking schools together. They are ahead of cable in doing this," said Lyle Hamilton, manager of broadcast services for the National Education Association. Telcos are restricted from getting into programming, but not from providing delivery of classroom...
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