Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Telephone companies look with envy at the cable-television business. But they are barred from offering cable service because regulators have feared that the phone companies' financial clout and network of lines would give them an unfair advantage over independent operators who had to install their own wiring. Now that cable companies have run wires past 80% of U.S. homes, the phone companies argue that the prohibition is unnecessary. Last week the Federal Communications Commission proposed lifting the restrictions that bar local telephone companies from offering cable service in their areas. The FCC will invite public comment on its plan...
...phone companies are allowed to enter the cable business, they are expected to try to entice consumers to order such high-tech services as video telephones, home shopping and a video-on-demand service that would allow customers to select and receive movies and other programs by phone...
Cable companies, which oppose the FCC proposal, argue that phone users would be forced to subsidize the multibillion-dollar cost of installing wires able to carry both voice and video signals. The possible result: higher phone bills...
NRLB officials did not return repeated phone calls...
...start of the campaign, Truesdell predicted that Vellucci's campaign--which spent only $4000 to defeat token Republican opposition in 1986--would need to raise more than $60,000 to avoid a "grim" financial situation. Truesdell said yesterday in a phone interview that the Vellucci campaign had raised more than $50,000 so far, and that he expected more contributions in the near future...