TCI, Time Warner start Kan. telephony move. (Tele-Communications Inc.; Time Warner Inc.; Kansas; competitive-access telephone services)

Multichannel News, July, 1995 by Estrella, Joe

Cable MSO-controlled Kansas City FiberNet, a Kansas City, Mo.-based provider of competitive-access telephone service, has set its sights on the Kansas local telephone market. Owned by Tele-Communications Inc. and Time Warner Inc., KC FiberNet has petitioned the Kansas Corporation Commission for permission to offer local phone service throughout the state.

As a result, the company is on a collision course with Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., the proverbial 800-pound gorilla among the regional Bell operating companies when it comes to defending its five-state territory against unwanted competitors. Although it has asked for authority to offer service statewide, KC FiberNet plans to concentrate on business accounts in the five counties that make up the...

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