Wireless takes on L.A.: telco wireless system prepares to square off against cable and DBS. (Pacific Telesis to introduce Pacific Bell Digital TV wireless cable service; digital broadcast satellite television)

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1997 by Littleton, Cynthia

Telco wireless system prepares to square off against cable and DBS HOLLYWOOD Southern California is shaping up to be ground-zero next year in the battle of the multi-channel delivery systems. By next spring, if all goes according to optimistic projections, consumers in Los Angeles and Orange counties will be able to comparison shop among at least three relatively equally matched subscription TV providers: cable, wireless cable and DBS.

The cable industry has recently focused much of its attention on evaluating the threat posed by last month's DBS union of News Corp.'s American Sky Broadcasting and EchoStar Communications' DISH Network. But in Southern California, a feisty new competitor just weeks away from launching has gone mostly...

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