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...AT&T took a $15.5bn charge on its pay-TV business in January, as customers switched to streaming platforms from cable and satellite....
...But one person involved in the negotiations said it was not a done deal and that “it will come down to the wire”....
...My tests at home generally confirmed that this brushless technology does remove the dirt better, and mean the cleaner is less likely to get tangled up in tassels or cables....
...Ziggo is the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, with 56 per cent of household cable connections and revenues of €1.48bn in 2011....
...But if cable companies have fewer subscribers, cable channels will have shrunken subscription and advertising revenues....
...“A great story is not enough,” says Christina Wayne, who brought Mad Men and Breaking Bad to screen at cable channel AMC and who today is president of production house Cineflix Studios....
...But pay-TV channel HBO, the market leader that makes its own premium programmes such as The Sopranos, The Wire and True Blood as well as showing the latest Hollywood films, is unwilling to share content...
...KDDI, which is Japan’s second-largest mobile phone operator, said the acquisition would allow it to offer fixed-line services to more homes without leasing wires from NTT, Japan’s dominant telecoms company...
...AT&T, by contrast, is spending $6.5bn to install fibre only as far as neighbourhoods, and will then rely on existing copper phone wires to connect to homes....
...In an effort to fend off competition from cable companies, Verizon is also expanding its FiOS service, which offers video and high-speed internet over fibre-optic wire....
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