Cable modems are tested and found to be addictive

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Continental Cablevision tests cable modems in a trial installation and earns rave reviews for modems that are faster than any telephone-based systems. A cable modem permits users to access the Internet and consists of high-capacity television cables that plug into a PC. The cables permit speeds up to 1,000 times greater than telephone lines. A complicated graphic requires four seconds to download over cable but would require 18.5 minutes using the most rapid telephone modem. Over 500,000 cable modems were ordered in Nov 1995 by cable carriers, who plan initially to lease them to customers and then to sell the devices in later years. Cable modems work well when users are downloading information, but when users try to send information from the home to the cable company, the signals can be disrupted by Christmas lights or CB radios. Conservative analysts forecast that cable modems will be a $1.3 billion market with seven million customers by 2000.

Testing, Continental Cablevision Inc.

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Cable firms prepare links with Internet

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Several major cable television companies, including Tele-Communications Inc, Time Warner Inc and Comcast Corp, have separately placed orders with Motorola and HP for purchases of thousands of cable-based modems, a move that marks the industry's first efforts to offer data transmissions via cable wires. The three companies, which placed their orders independently of each other, will buy 350,000 cable modems from Motorola for an estimated $175 million. HP has received orders for another 150,000 cable modems. Cable modems will be used for computer data transmissions instead of the current telephone transmissions. Cable offers bandwidth up to 1,000 faster than current telephone bandwidths. During pilot tests for the new service, users report that they cannot go back to using phone lines after experiencing the speed of cable. The cable companies plan to lease the cable modems for between $15 and $20 per month.

Cable Television Systems, Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Purchasing, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Time Warner Inc., Cable television broadcasting industry, Hewlett-Packard Co., HWP, Comcast Corp., CMCSA, TWX, Company business planning, AT&T Broadband and Internet Services Inc., TCOMB, Company product acquisition

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Motorola ships cable modems for Internet access

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Motorola prepares release of a cable modem that provides for superior access rates to the Internet, as other companies ready associated cable products in an effort to drive the entire cable industry. Analysts have expressed uncertainty about the industry's ability to deliver useful products and services in a timely manner. The recent downgrade of Tele-Communications is illustrative of concerns about these cable companies' ability to compete with emerging services from direct-broadcast satellite companies. Motorola is marketing its cable modem for Internet service providers. The technology offers access rates hundreds of times faster than standard analog or digital phone lines. Internet access providers are expected to offer this technology to users for approximately $25 to $40 per month.

Internet, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Marketing, Equipment and supplies, Cable modems, Company marketing practices, Company product planning, Cable Modem

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