Small Telco Eyes Cable Over DSL.(Hart Telephone Co.; digital-subscriber-line)

Multichannel News, August, 1998 by Dawson, Fred

A small independent telephone company in Hart County, Ga., believes that it has found the telco-TV solution that will reignite the industry's pursuit of the cable business. Hart Telephone Co. said last week that it was preparing to use a new xDSL (digital-subscriber-line) system to deliver 80 channels of cable programming over the portion of its telephone network that serves some 10,000 voice customers in Hartwell and other parts of Hart County, located about 90 miles northeast of Atlanta.

"This is what we in the telephone industry have been waiting for," said Lee Barton, president and CEO of Hart. The technology in question, supplied by Norwalk, Conn.- based mPhase Technologies Inc., offers a means of delivering digitized TV signals, along with...

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