California Cable Television Association Says California Consumers Will Benefit From Court Ruling Reversal.News Editors/High-Tech and Cable Writers OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 2000 Spencer Kaitz, President and General Counsel of the California Cable Television Association (CCTA (Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, London, www.ogc.gov.uk) An agency of the U.K. government's Office of Government Commerce that has been providing IT advice and guidance to the public sector for over 25 years. ), today issued the following statement in response to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to reverse a previous ruling that local jurisdictions had authority to open cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. networks to Internet rivals: "This is good news. The direct result of today's decision of the 9th Circuit Court will be to speed up the deployment of broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. to California consumers. "Cable companies, better able to increase investment in broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). infrastructure, will greatly benefit our state's high-tech and content industries. This will result in greater Internet access See how to access the Internet. for Californians in all our communities." The CCTA is the cable industry's largest state cable television association, representing more than 300 cable television companies and serving more than 6.5 million cable television customers in California. |
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