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- noun Plural form of
overbuilder .
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Also, cable companies in the past have successfully battled back against so-called overbuilders -- companies that have built competing wired TV systems.
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The department called overbuilders and telcos closer substitutes than satellite and a greater constraint on prices and spur to quality.
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The rivalry between incumbent MSOs and so-called overbuilders has raged since the beginning of cable and peaked at various times over the last 20 years.
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RCN sprang up in the 1990s and became one of the most prominent "overbuilders," companies that challenged entrenched cable operators after the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened the way to more competition.
RCN Is Sold to Firm in $535 Million Deal Niraj Sheth 2010
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RCN sprang up in the 1990s and became one of the most prominent "overbuilders," companies that challenged entrenched cable operators after the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened the way to more competition.
RCN Is Sold to Firm in $535 Million Deal Niraj Sheth 2010
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RCN sprang up in the 1990s and became one of the most prominent "overbuilders," companies that challenged entrenched cable operators after the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened the way to more competition.
RCN Is Sold to Firm in $535 Million Deal Niraj Sheth 2010
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RCN sprang up in the 1990s and became one of the most prominent "overbuilders," companies that challenged entrenched cable operators after the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened the way to more competition.
Private-Equity Firm to Buy RCN for $531 Million Niraj Sheth 2010
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They were called "overbuilders" and it never worked.
I miss Michael Powell, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Incumbent cable firms also face competition from Grande Communications, RCN and other so-called "overbuilders" that construct cable systems in markets that already have cable service.
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SNL Kagan, for example, estimates that US cable operators already had wideband deployed to about 48.6 million homes passed by the end of 2009, equal to about 37 percent of all cable homes passed (that number includes overlap from competitive cable "overbuilders").
Light Reading: 2010
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