Cable and alts: what's next? (cable operators' fiber-based alternate-access telephone services)

Multichannel News, March, 1992 by Thompson, Rachel W.

NEW YORK -- Moves by cable operators toward provision of fiber-based alternate-access telephone services are a natural response to changes in technology, regulation and the competitive market, industry executives said last week. Several MSOs already offer, or are preparing to offer, such services in markets where they have cable operations and a surplus of fiber capacity.

And prior to its purchase two weeks ago of 49.9 percent of Teleport Communications Group, TeleCommunications Inc. was preparing to gobble up another company, Penn Access, with its alternate-access subsidiary, Digital Direct. Nevertheless, the TCI deal, which analysts valued at roughly $80 million to $90 million, coupled with the news that 12.5 percent-owner Cox Enterprises may...

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