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Author: | Kupfer, A. |
Title: | AT&T goes cable crazy |
Journal: | Fortune
1999 : MAY 24, VOL. 139:10, p. 81-83 |
Index terms: | INDUSTRIES CABLES INDUSTRY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The cable industry is thick with rogue monopolists and infighting. So why does CEO Armstrong want a bigger piece of it? A few weeks before elevating his already heady audacity quotient with an unsolicited $62 billion bid for cable-TV company MadiaOne, AT&T Chairman Michael Armstrong characterized the industry his company had bought into by acquiring cable giant TCI: "Cable operators across the nation consider themselves a family. They're very close. And even though they yell at each other a lot, they often rally together. |
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