TCI Breathing Easier in Iowa.
Multichannel News, November, 1998 by ESTRELLA, JOE
Albeit inadvertently, the Low a Supreme Court handed Tele-Communications Inc. a major victory in its ongoing battle against municipal overbuilds in the state. Experts said that by barring city governments from offering local telephone service over municipally owned telecommunications networks, the court essentially pulled the plug on a spate of cable overbuilds that had been threatening to overrun the industry.
The consensus is that without the additional revenues generated from phone service, such community-owned networks would become financial drains on the cities. For example, it was estimated that one community would have to rake in the equivalent of $200 in cable revenues from every household in town whether it took the service or not -just...
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