Going after Texas-sized franchises: Verizon, other cable rivals pursue Texas's new statewide license option.(Grande Communications Networks Inc.)(Verizon Communications Inc.)(Texas Cable & Telecommunications Association)
Multichannel News, October, 2005 by Haugsted, Linda
Two telephone companies and one cable-television company have knocked on the door of the Texas Public Utility Commission, seeking statewide licenses to provide bundles of communications services that include video programming.
The cable-television company is Grande Communications Networks Inc., based in San Marcos. Grande serves more than 85,000 television subscribers in between San Antonio and Austin, Texas, but is the secondary player in the markets in which it operates. The dominant carrier: Time Warner Cable.
Since it considers itself a competing cable provider, Grande is moving to take advantage of an exception in the state's new telecommunications-reform bill, which allows some companies--but not dominant cable franchises--to seek single...
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