In a move that makes Jim Carrey’s character in “The Cable Guy” look angelic, the California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA) recently circulated a letter to Sacramento lawmakers in an attempt to scare them into protecting cable’s dominant video market position. It’s now easy for cable companies and others that offer high-speed Internet services to get into the voice market, but it’s hard for telephone companies to enter the video market.
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Beware the Legacy Cable Guy
Posted by: Sonia Arrison November 18, 2005 05:00 AMIn a move that makes Jim Carrey’s character in “The Cable Guy” look angelic, the California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA) recently circulated a letter to Sacramento lawmakers in an attempt to scare them into protecting cable’s dominant video market position. It’s now easy for cable companies and others that offer high-speed Internet services to get into the voice market, but it’s hard for telephone companies to enter the video market.