CABLE'S TCI, CENTURY TO POOL SYSTEMS.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Striving for cable service efficiency, TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. Communications and Century Communications have agreed to combine and exchange systems in a deal expected to affect thousands of area customers. Under the agreement, Englewood, Colo.-based TCI will exchange about 100,000 subscribers in the east San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for an equal number of Century's subscribers in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay , TCI president and chief executive officer Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Hindery said Wednesday. Also, the two companies have agreed to a strategic partnership under which they will combine systems in and around the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area, according to officials. TCI will contribute systems serving 245,000 customers in areas that include Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Century will contribute systems serving some 500,000 customers in, among other places, the east San Fernando Valley and Sherman Oaks. Century, which is headquartered in New Canaan, Conn., will own about 75 percent of this partnership with the remainder to be owned by TCI. The agreement is in line with a move in the cable industry to promote efficiency by concentrating systems in an area, Hindery said. TCI currently has about 1.3 million customers in the Bay Area and about 335,000 in the Valley, east Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. and Ventura County, he said. ``The industry is trying to bring greater economy of scale and efficiency to its customers so they can be served better and more thoughtfully,'' Hindery said. ``Some operators are simply exchanging.'' The partnership must be approved by local authorities and should be final in a couple months, he said. |
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