When a trial involves thousands of cable customers, they say, that is open competition.

"It's our window of opportunity to reach cable customers," she said.

Once hooked up, cable customers have a constant connection to the Internet.

It said the average cable customer has a mere 35 channels.

It's enough to drive a captive cable customer to satellite service.

All told, the city has nearly 3 million potential cable customers, only a fourth of whom have service available.

Viewers Choice was available to both home satellite dish and cable customers.

Last year, video on demand service was available to about seven million digital cable customers.

That makes it difficult to justify yet another rate increase to our cable customers.

The Bells are also developing television services to win over cable customers.