Cable concern plans to offer phone service in Nynex home
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Residential Communications Network (RNC) plans to leverage its investment in Liberty Cable Television to offer residential telephone, cable and Internet access services to customers in New York City. RNC will spend $200 million from mid-1996 to 1998 as it installs a fiber-optic network to carry both telephone and television traffic. RNC plans to attract customers from Nynex, which dominates the NY market with 3 million residential customers, by offering significantly improved services at lower costs. Combined phone and cable service is expected to be 15% lower per month that rates from the established companies, and one incentive offers early subscribers free call forwarding and call waiting. RNC plans to send some of its data over lines leased from MFS Communications, and it has agreements from some landlords to begin installing its own fiber-optic cable in apartments buildings that already receive cable service from Liberty Cable. Installations in other buildings is likely to take longer.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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Free long-distance phone calls!
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Internet telephony, a communications mode that utilizes a combination of computers, microphones and telephone management software to offer long distance services, is growing rapidly. Although drawbacks in the technology keep Internet telephony from being as reliable as conventional telephone service, the number of users is expected to grow from 400,000 at the present time to 16 million by 1999. Among the additional applications of this technology are inexpensive videoconferencing, catalogue shopping services, workgroup applications and the addition of audio to computer games. Intel and Microsoft are developing standards for this mode of telephony, and companies such as Compaq and Netscape are also adding it to their computers and communications software. Recently Internet access firm IDT introduced Net2phone, a program which can deliver a PC-generated message to a standard telephone.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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