Chattanooga: Reshaping the Telecom Landscape

Posted on: Saturday, 26 July 2008, 15:00 CDT By Dave Flessner and Jason Reynolds, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. Jul. 26--Within the next couple of years, most Chattanoogans should be able to pick from at least three local providers to get any of their cable television, telephone or high-speed Internet services. Competition is growing in the once-monopolistic phone and cable TV market as Comcast and AT&T upgrade their systems to invade each other's traditional telecom turf. By next February, EPB, Chattanooga's electricity provider, will join the fray with plans to add residential phone, Internet and cable TV services as part of a $220 million fiber-to-home initiative, President Harold DePriest said Friday. The battle in the marketplace was opened up in the past year after earlier legislative and legal fights delayed both... [read full story]