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- <text id=92TT2836>
- <title>
- Dec. 21, 1992: Look, Ma, No Cable
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 21, 1992 Restoring Hope
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Look, Ma, No Cable!
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- <p>The FCC gives a tentative green light to video via microwave
- </p>
- <p> How many ways can you take in the tube? Between broadcast
- television, cable TV, fiber-optic cable, digital compressed
- cable and variously sized satellite dishes, there may soon be
- as many delivery systems as there are channels to choose from.
- Now the FCC has added yet another wrinkle to videotic variety,
- tentatively approving a nationwide television-transmission
- system much like the one used to send and receive cellular phone
- calls.
- </p>
- <p> The new system, developed by a New Jersey firm called
- CellularVision, has been operating in Brooklyn since July. It
- uses microwave signals of such high frequency that they can
- bounce off buildings and still be received by a window-mounted
- antenna no bigger than a magazine. The system, which could be
- available throughout New York City and in other major TV markets
- by mid-1994, can deliver as many channels as cable TV without
- the expense of having to wire up each individual home--a
- prospect that could threaten the virtual monopoly that many
- cable companies currently enjoy.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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