Cable CEOs unite in major move to develop Web-telephony link. (Cable Television Laboratories Inc.)
Multichannel News, September, 1997 by Dawson, Fred
Cable CEOs have taken another concerted action toward strategic cooperation, this time pursuing the development of telecommunications services over high-speed-data links. Sources said the executives, meeting as members of the board of Cable Television Laboratories Inc. two weeks ago, launched a task force devoted to packetized voice and videophone services.
Heading the group is Mark Coblitz, vice president of strategic planning at Comcast Corp. The action comes amid fast-moving technological developments that have brought telephony over the Internet to the brink of performance parity with the usual circuit-switched voice service. "The cable industry sees a real opportunity to put this technology to use in the high-speed-access environment in ways that...
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