cable

(noun)

(communications) A system for receiving television or Internet service over coaxial or fibreoptic cables

Examples of cable in the following topics:

  • Telecommunications

    • New technologies -- including cable television, cellular (or wireless) service, the Internet, and possibly others -- offered alternatives to local telephone companies.
    • The law allowed long-distance telephone companies such as AT&T, as well as cable television and other start-up companies, to begin entering the local telephone business.

  • Organization and Ownership of the Media

    • In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by nine corporations: News Corporation (the Fox family of channels), The Walt Disney Company (which includes the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands), CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast (which includes the NBC brands), Time Warner, Discovery Communications, EW Scripps television, or some combination thereof (including the aforementioned The CW as well as A&E networks, which is a consortium of Comcast and Disney, ).
    • The similar market structure exists for television broadcasting, cable systems, and newspaper industries, all of which are characterized by the existence of large-scale owners.

  • Consumer Perception of Communication

    • During the 1980s, cable television audiences grew rapidly.
    • Companies who listened to customer communication preferences and entered the cable market early reaped considerable advantages over competitors who failed to grapple with the changes in the consumer market.

  • Nationalization of the News

    • The internet age, digital cable and satellite broadcast have prservices, comes on-demand news programming.

  • Other Geophysical Applications

    • The indicator is powered by a system of pulleys, cables, and a float

  • The Cold War and Containment

    • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by United States diplomat, George F.

  • Demand-Based Pricing

    • It is common in the software business (Microsoft Office package), cable TV (basic cable, internet, phone), and food as well (burger, fries and a soda).
    • This strategy is very common in the software business (e.g., bundle a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database into a single office suite), in the cable television industry (e.g., basic cable in the United States generally offers many channels at one price), and in the fast food industry in which multiple items are combined into a complete meal.

  • Informed Decisions

    • Information technology refers to the convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks through a single cable or link system that unifies signal distribution and management.

  • Policy Evaluation

    • For example, two of the objectives of the 1996 Telecommunications Act were creating jobs and reducing cable rates.

  • Total Internal Reflection and Fiber Optics

    • If light is incident on a cable end with an angle of incidence greater than the critical angle then the light will remain trapped inside the glass strand.
    • In this way, light travels very quickly down the length of the cable over a very long distance (tens of kilometers).