Cable Television Providers

Term Paper # 99341

Business > Industries
Communication > Television
Computer and Technology > Internet

This paper discusses the effects of competition among Internet providers, cable providers and the telephone companies.

734 words () | 4 sources | MLA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that telephone companies in the US can now compete directly with cable television companies, which in turn will be able to offer more telephone services as well. The paper describes how each company's essential monopoly is now being challenged. The paper discusses the change in behavioral thinking that must be implemented in the cable companies to take advantage of new possibilities, but to also maintain the core television business.

From the Paper:

"Today's IT company faces issues in terms of its organizational behavior both from within and without, with the major internal issue often being personnel development, while changes in the competitive environment constitute a major issue from outside the company itself. Consider the problems facing the average Internet provider today, given that the competitive environment is opening up to new entrants so that the environment is changing rapidly. The issue is being framed in California today as the state implements a change in the law to allow competition among Internet providers, cable providers, and the telephone companies. In the past, telephone services were one type of service, cable television another, and Internet services still another."

Sample of Sources Used:

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Kantor, A. (2006, February 10). Cable, phone companies battle to be your everything. USA Today, retrieved September 4, 2006 from http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2006-02-10-phone-vs-cable_x.htm.
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