The TM Forum Cable Initiative brings MSOs, their suppliers and partners under one roof to create a community where the people who work on and think about operating networks, delivering services, managing billing and revenue and optimizing customer experience for cable customers can come together and collaborate. Leveraging the TM Forum’s well established Frameworx best practices and standards, the cable industry can benefit from the broad and global perspective that has been built into the guidelines, models, interfaces and architectures that Frameworx defines.
TM Forum’s Frameworx suite of standards provide the blueprint for effective business operations, enabling you to assess and improve performance by using a proven, service-oriented approach to operations and integration and allowing you to focus on growing your business.
Frameworx helps MSOs to:
- Innovate and reduce time to-market
- Reduce operating costs
- Reduce integration costs
- Reduce risk
- Build essential partnerships
TM Forum works closely with CableLabs® to continually improve the effectiveness of TM Forum standards and best practices for the cable industry.
MSO Members who are contributing to the TM Forum’s Best Practices and Standards include:
  
 
  
Special welcome to the new members of the Cable Community that have recently joined:
- Telenet Group - is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of analog and digital cable television, high speed internet and fixed and mobile telephony services, primarily to residential customers in Flanders and Brussels. In addition, Telenet offers services to business customers all across Belgium and in Luxembourg under its brand Telenet Solutions.
- Cogeco Inc - COGECO Inc. (“COGECO” or “the Company”) is a diversified communications company with shares listed on the Toronto stock exchange (“TSX”), under the symbol CGO. The Company strives to meet the communication needs of consumers and advertisers through cable distribution and radio broadcasting. Cogeco Cable Inc. (“Cogeco Cable”), the cable subsidiary, builds on its cable distribution base by offering Analogue and Digital Television, High Speed Internet and Telephony services. Cogeco Cable is the second largest cable telecommunications company In Ontario, Québec, and Portugal in terms of basic cable service customers.
- Canoe Ventures - The Next Great Digital Medium. Canoe VenturesTM is changing television. We're creating innovative products and services for networks to enhance programming and empower viewers to interact with their TVs. We are accelerating TV's evolution by combining the impact and reach of traditional TV with new technologies and marketing solutions that will better connect consumers with brands. Founded in 2008 by the country's leading cable operators, Canoe is making TV the next great digital medium.
- Charter Communications, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States. Charter provides advanced video, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to approximately 5.5 million residential and business customers in 27 states.
- CABLEUROPA S.A.U. (ONO) - Cableuropa SAU, known primarily by its brand name, ONO, is a leading alternative telecommunications service provider in Spain. It offers direct-access telephony, broadband Internet access and pay television in an area containing 14.8 million homes
- NET Serviços is Latin America’s largest multi-service cable company, offering pay TV, broadband internet access and voice services through a single cable. With a 51% share of the pay TV market and a 25% share of the broadband segment, NET Serviços’ network provides services to more than 11.3 million homes in 93 cities, including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Manaus, Brasília and Goiânia.
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