Cable faces tough set of access adversaries.
Multichannel News, March, 2003 by Hearn, Ted
At the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, the slogan hanging from the front porch might as well read: "There they go again." A few years back, before it bought its way into cable ownership, America Online Inc. pressured cable operators to open their networks up to multiple Internet service providers.
Cable refused, so AOL enlisted a posse of paid persuaders to ply Congress and the Federal Communications Commission with ideas on creating a broadband utopia. AOL, no match for cable's own hired guns, called off the campaign after agreeing to merge with Time Warner Inc. Now a new group, the Coalition of Broadband Users and Innovators (CBUI), has formed to take up where AOL in part left off. CBUI is urging the FCC to slap...
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