2 MSOs fight N.Y. Telephone video dial tone proposal. (multiple systems operators; New York Telephone Co.; Time Warner Inc. New York City Cable Group; Cablevision Systems Corp.)

Multichannel News, December, 1992 by Aversa, Jeannine

WASHINGTON -- Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems Corp. were among the groups opposing New York Telephone Co.'s application to provide video dial tone services on a trial basis to three apartment buildings in New York City. Under the proposal, NYT would build a fiber optic link to connect the three buildings, currently served by Liberty Cable Co., a satellite master antenna service.

Liberty, the cable groups said, would be NYT's sole customer. Because NYT's facility lacks a fundamental video dial tone requirement -- a common-carrier platform, providing the capability to serve multiple customers on a non-discriminatory basis, the application should be denied, the cable groups told the Federal Communications Commission last week. But, they added,...

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