What is more, high-speed cable modems are a faster and cheaper alternative.
Even high-speed cable modems and DSL lines typically run at only one-fifth the speed needed for a full-size TV picture in real time.
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The FTC is concerned the high-speed cable systems that Time Warner is rolling out across the US, covering 20% of the population, will only be available to AOL users.
Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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After all, they laughed at him when he wanted to lay high-speed broadband cable across the ocean floor.
Singapore is the most "wired" with claims that every house on the island is connected to the Internet via high-speed broadband cable.
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Student-housing rental rates typically include furnishings, high-speed Internet, cable television and utilities.
Any agreement that gives AOL the ability to sell its high-speed service via cable lines not owned by Time Warner would be a huge victory for the struggling Internet service provider.
Bill Gates has a long history of making investments in cable companies with the hopes that it will secure Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) software a significant role in the technology used for high-speed Internet access and for cable set-top boxes that deliver interactive TV.
The biggest growth area for cable is in high-speed Internet access market, of which cable holds two-thirds (DSL has about one-third and is trending lower).
In many countries telecoms operators have been converting some of their last-mile connections to high-speed fibre-optic links, though cable networks and telephone wires still account for most last-mile connections.
Access to private high-speed Internet networks through cable and telephone companies was pretty limited.
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Compaq also announced its new Triple Play broadband Internet access program, which offers customers a choice of three high-speed Net access options: cable modem, DSL, and satellite.
The U.S. cable industry now has 25 million digital cable customers, 20 million high-speed Internet customers and 3 million telephone customers, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA).
The inquiry by the select committee, chaired by Labour MP Martin O'Neill, has been set up to examine the progress of high-speed net roll-out across Britain, via phone lines, cable and satellite.
Yet the advantage lies with cable's high-speed services, which have nearly five times as many customers as do those of telephone companies.
Personal computer users will reap the benefits of the high-speed connection only if they have DSL or cable modems.
Ironically, it was concern by AOL that it would be shut out of high-speed, broadband internet services that led it to advocate "open-access" to cable systems - before it decided to buy Time Warner to assure its access to such services.
Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ), the nation's largest cable company, added a record number of new high-speed users in its third quarter, leading to a 38% increase in broadband revenue from the same quarter a year ago.
With networks of wire already running into homes all over the country, cable companies can now deliver high-speed internet access.
All users within a couple of hundred feet of the base station who have an inexpensive Wi-Fi device in their PCs or PDAs can then share low-cost, high-speed access to the Internet--without having to pay individually for more expensive dedicated DSL or cable modem service.
"High-speed internet is the biggest driver of growth for the cable companies right now, " says Amobi.
They point out that only around half of America's cable systems are modern enough to offer consumers high-speed Internet access.
New digital cable services like video-on-demand and high-speed Internet are catching on.
Comcast Cable is the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider to residential customers under the XFINITY brand and also provides these services to businesses.
By relying on Internet lines it doesn't control, Vonage is largely at the mercy of cable companies and traditional phone companies to provide reliable, high-speed Internet connections.
That sort of unbundling will take a while, due to a Byzantine system of contracts, so in the meantime, cable companies can embrace alternative methods of distribution by pushing high-speed internet access, as the Time Warner president said in the article.
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