Cable Cable Telecommunications

Regulation

• US Federal
• Executive Branch
• FedWorld (a federal government online directory from NTIS)
• Department of Justice
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Department of Commerce
• NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
• NTIS National Technical Information Service
• Department of Labor
• OSHA Occupational Health & Safety Administration (if you think OSHA is a small town in Wisconsin, you must be confusing it with Oshkosh, home of the EAA Fly-in and the UW Oshkosh)
• President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion
• Legislative Branch
• The FCC
• Cable television is regulated at the FCC by the Media Bureau
• Within the Media Bureau, cable television technical matters are handled by the Engineering Division
  
• Network Reliability and Interoperability Council
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Indexed Code of Federal Regulations-Harold Hallikainen's Hypertext FCC Rules Project
• Thomas (The Library of Congress)
• US House of Representatives
• Law Library, U.S. House of Representatives
• US Senate
• Judicial Branch
• Supreme Court Opinions from the Cornell Law School
• Federal Communications Bar Association
• etrok Cable TV LawManager
• Lexis-Nexis
• NATOA National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (association for local regulators)
• NARUC National Association of Regulatory Utility Commisioners (association for state regulators)
• New York PSC
• Wisconsin PSC
• USAC (Universal Service Administrative Company - they distribute the Universal Service fund)
• Unofficial FCC Document Locator by John Neuhaus
• Pike & Fischer Cable Television Rules service
• Telecommunications Act of 1996
• International Directory of Utility Regulatory Institutions from the World Bank
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities (Canada)
• Local Cable Regulation
• The City of Indianapolis Cable Agency
• The City of Madison

Communications Law Firms & Consultants

• Blumenfeld & Cohen
• Cole, Raywid & Braverman, L.L.P.
• Jonathan L. Kramer, FIAE, Technology Consultant to Governments
• Robert Keller, P.C.
• Neil J. Lehto MunicipalConsultant
• Pepper and Corazinni

Other Cable Telecommunications Resource Directories

SCTE, Chapters and Meeting Groups

• SCTE
• Gold Coast Meeting Group
• Lake Michigan Chapter
• Quebec Chapter (in French)

Telecom Labs

Books

• After Thought James Bailey
• The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurtzweil
• Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte
• Broadband Return Systems for Hybrid Fiber/Coax Cable TV Networks Raskin, Stoneback (you may order this from the SCTE Bookstore)
• Burn Rate by Michael Wolff
• Modern Cable Technology Cicora, Farmer, Large (you may order this from the SCTE Bookstore)
• Packet Communication Robert Metcalfe
• Road Warriers (Dreams and Nightmares Along the Information Highway) Daniel Burstein & David Kline
• Silicon Snake Oil by Cliff Stoll
• When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld
• The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
• There are No Electrons by Ken Amdahl (Published by Clearwater Publishing Company)(at Amazon.com)
• Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe

Information about Open Cable Access

Multiple System Operators & Cable Operators

• Adelphia
• Avenue Cable (Ventura, California)
• CableTV of the Kennebunks
• Cablevision Systems
• Cablenet Canada
• Charter Communications
• Charter Business Networks
• Click Network from Tacoma Power, City of Tacoma, Washington
• Comcast
• Communication Technologies Inc.
• Continental Cablevision
• Cox Communications
• Cox Cable Las Vegas
• Fundy Cable
• Harron Communications
• Hi-Desert Cablevision
• Horizon Cablevision
• Jones Interactive
• Lyonaise Cable (France)
• Post Newsweek Cable
• Prime Cable
• Arlington
• Chicago
• Mongomery
• TKR Cable Company
• Time Warner Cable
• UPC (Europe)
• Viacom
• VTR Chili

Telephony Information

Cable Telecommunications, Cable Modems and the Internet

• @Home (ISP specializing in cable industry)
• Community Networks, Inc.
• PSI Performance Systems International
• Videotron's Cable Modem Page
• Cable Modem List & Archives
• Cable Modem Home Page (Cablelabs resources about DOCSIS)
• Cablemodems ((advertising-supported) resources from Digital Nation)
• Cable-Modems.Org (cable modem resource collection from Rolf V. Østergaard)
• CableModemHelp (ad-supported resource collection from Johannes Ullrich)
• CableModem Resources on the Web by David Gingold (MIT)
• Connecting Homes to the Internet: An Engineering Cost Model of Cable vs.ISDN
• IEEE 802.14 Committee: Data Transport over Cable Television Networks
• CableNet at the Western Show
• COM21 (cable modems)
• First Pacific Networks (data and voice over RF systems)
• HSA High Speed Access Corporation (ISP specializing in cable industry)
• Hybrid Networks (cable and wireless modem manufacturer)
• Integrity Communications (hardware and software for broadband wireless and wireline access networks)
• Internet Channel (ISP specializing in cable industry)
• ISP Channel (turnkey ISP specializing in cable industry)
• LANcity (now owned by Bay Networks)
• Phasecom (cable modems & broadband data transmission)
• Road Runner (ISP specializing in cable industry)
• Terayon Cable Modem Access Products
• Web TV Networks (the default Internet Provider for WebTV - a special purpose computer for Internet browsing which is designed to use the customer's television as a video display)
• Worldgate Internet over cable
• Zenith Electronics (television receivers, commercial presentation & cable modems & set-top boxes)

Program Providers

• America's Talking
• Black Entertainment Television
• CNBC
• CNET
• CNN
• C-SPAN
• The Discovery Channel
• DMX Digital Music Express
• Comedy Central
• HBO
• HBO Operations
• HITS (Headend in the Sky - digital programs via satellite to your headend)
• Home and Garden Television
• The International Channel
• Jones Education Networks
• MSNBC Microsoft/NBC
• MTV
• NASA Television
• Nick at Nite
• The Sci-Fi Channel
• SCOLA (Satellite COmmunications for LeArning)
• Showtime
• Turner Broadcasting System
• VH1
• The Weather Channel

College/University Media Web Pages

• MIT
• Agora at Boston College
• Vermont Interactive Television

Pages by Individuals and About Important People In Cable Telecommunications and Computing

Broadcasting References

Digital Television

Satellite Resources

Telecommunications in Usenet News

• Search Usenet News Deja News Research Service
• comp.dcom.telecom
• comp.dcom.telecom.tech
• alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
• rec.video.cable-tv

Comments to: Dave Devereaux-Weber
djdevere@doit.wisc.edu
Last Updated: 20-May-2003