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Time Warner Cable Presents New Research Program Awards

^{Published on 2010-12-15 07:00:38 - Market Wire}
 

NEW YORK--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) today announced that it had awarded four new research stipends as part of its Research Program on Digital Communications ([ www.twcresearchprogram.com ]). Launched earlier this year, the Research Program is designed to tap into the best minds in the academic and public policy communities and stimulate research into the challenges facing the telecommunications industry. The Research Program will award stipends to generate reports and provide new information, insights, and practical advice to policymakers and policy stakeholders. Each stipend is for $20,000. This is the second round of awards in 2010. Eight total awards were made during the first year of the program.

"With the completion of the second round of research stipends and the commissioning of five essays in 2010 recently published in the December issue of the Federal Communications Law Journal, we believe that the Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications is off to an excellent start"

Fernando Laguarda, director of the program and Vice President for External Affairs and Policy Counselor at Time Warner Cable, said, aWe were very pleased with the first year of our Research Program and the two rounds of applications. We received high quality proposals and believe that the studies selected in 2010 will add to the public debate about major issues now confronting the industry, policymakers, and stakeholders.a During 2011, the Research Program will publish the reports funded in 2010 and award additional research stipends in its Spring and Fall award cycles.

The four studies selected were:

• Modeling the Impact of Emerging Traffic Patterns on the Design of Aggregation Architectures by [ Michael Devetsikiotis ], Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
• Maximizing African-American Broadband Adoption by [ Chanelle Hardy ], Senior Vice President and Executive Director, National Urban League Policy Institute; Valerie Rawlston Wilson, Vice President of Research; and Madura Wijewardena, Director of Research and Policy
• Self-regulation, Privacy, and Advertising Outcomes by [ Catherine Tucker ], Douglas Drane Career Development Professor in IT and Management and Assistant Professor in Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Converging Markets and Consumer Choice by [ Jeffrey Prince ], Associate Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

A short description of each study is attached.

aWith the completion of the second round of research stipends and the commissioning of five essays in 2010 recently published in the December issue of the Federal Communications Law Journal, we believe that the Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications is off to an excellent start,a said Laguarda. aThe time continues to be ripe for an enhanced debate about the future of digital communications in our nation.a

About the Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications

The Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications awards stipends to foster research dedicated to increasing understanding of the benefits and challenges facing the future of digital technologies in the home, office, classroom and community. Individual researchers affiliated with universities and not-for-profits are eligible to apply for the stipends. More information about the program can be found at [ www.twcresearchprogram.com ] and by following [ http://twitter.com/TWC_RP ].

About Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located in five geographic areas a" New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than 14 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable. More information about the services of Time Warner Cable is available at [ www.timewarnercable.com ], [ www.twcbc.com ] and [ www.twcmediasales.com ].