Conn. Dept. of Public Utility Control (DPUC) approved plan by Sou...
Conn. Dept. of Public Utility Control (DPUC) approved plan by Southern New England Telephone (SNET) Personal Vision competitive cable unit to exit cable business in state by May. DPUC approved SNET’s cable departure because carrier backed wrong technological horse…
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with its hybrid fiber-coaxial network for full-service phone/cable system and it would be prohibitively costly for company to adopt newer technologies. To ensure orderly transition for Personal Vision customers, DPUC draft decision requires SNET to credit customers $50 to defray their costs of switching to incumbent cable company, to either transfer coaxial drops to incumbent or remove them from customer premises without charge to customer, accept mail-ins of leased set-top boxes, and support its public access affiliates’ move to incumbent cable companies with subsidies until May 2002.