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That is changing fast. Direct-to-home satellite broadcasting is making a fresh bid for a share of the television market -- not just people in the boondocks but city and suburban dwellers as well who already subscribe to cable. A new generation of satellites, sending out signals over the high...
This has created a window of opportunity for potential rivals. (These rivals received a significant boost from the 1992 Cable Act, which requires that cable programmers like HBO and Showtime offer their services to any competing delivery system at comparable prices.) The oldest of these competitors is so- called wireless...
A more serious challenge to cable may come from direct-broadcast satellites (DBS). A consortium of telecommunications companies that includes GM Hughes Electronics, RCA/Thomson and Hubbard Broadcasting has just completed a nationwide roll-out of its Digital Satellite System, which offers 150 channels to customers who buy and install a...
DBS still has serious drawbacks compared with cable. Despite the space-age technology, satellite dishes cannot deliver one very homely piece of the media pie: local stations. To get them, satellite customers must either switch back to an ordinary antenna or maintain their basic cable service. Despite a better-quality...
A major bill that givesthe FBI power to continue surveillance on new phone networks was approved lateFriday night, but online services will largely be spared from the government'swatchful eye. The Digital Telephony Bill -- in the Senate it's S2375, in theHouse HR4922 -- forces telephone companies to make any new...