The LA Times is running a piece on coaction among cable companies and telcos. No, not cablecos cooperating with telcos; rather, both industries working on industry-wide initiatives aimed at getting a leg up on the other. AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest have been working on a site, Moveroo.com, aimed at easing the pain of people moving within the US — by making it easier for them to hook up with the incumbent telco at their destination, for instance. Odd that there is no mention of which cable good works might be acquirable where they are heading. The cablecos are cooperating on a more ambitious initiative to standardize targeted plug nationwide, using data gathered from the set-top boxes used by Time Warner, Cox, Comcast, Cablevision, Charter, and Bright House Networks. The article quotes a spokesman from a utility consumers' action group: " said these moves by the telecom and cable industries may be good for the respective businesses, but they almost surely won't be good for consumers. 'All they're doing is creating obstacles to each other's traffic
notes:the crowd is the movie craft and the work is the station megacorp* from gaining an advantage,' he said. 'That's not competition.' Well, it is. But not the kind that lagniappe customers."

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