Charter joins Go2Broadband

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Charter Communications Inc., the nation's fifth-largest MSO, has joined Cable
Television Laboratories Inc.'s Go2Broadband service, a database being built to
help identify cable customers with broadband access.

Charter joins AT&T Broadband, Adelphia Communications Corp., Time Warner
Cable, Comcast Corp. and Cox Communications Inc. in contributing customer
information to the database, which is used to let computer manufacturers and
cable-modem retailers know whether a customer has broadband access and which
company is the service provider.

Go2Broadband will also give retailers the ability to sign up customers for
broadband service on the spot.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.