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<title>
Nov. 04, 1991: Business Notes:Communications
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Nov. 04, 1991 The New Age of Alternative Medicine
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 65
Business Notes
COMMUNICATIONS
Getting Totally Wired
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<p> Although both are public utilities that deliver their
services directly into American homes by wire, cable-TV operators
and phone companies have rarely competed head to head. But with
deregulation and new technology blurring the lines between
them, the two businesses are set to collide. The showdown drew
closer last week, when the Federal Communications Commission
proposed rules that would hasten the phone industry's entry into
the TV business.
</p>
<p> Under the FCC proposal, telephone companies would be
allowed to package and deliver a smorgasbord of television
programming, including shows already carried by cable systems
and broadcast stations. The programs would be transmitted via
a so-called video dial tone, carried over fiber-optic cable,
which would cost the phone companies billions of dollars to
install. Defending their turf, cable-TV operators contend that
the phone companies would have an unfair advantage because they
could subsidize their video service with profits from their
phone business.
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