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  • noun A person or organization that overbuilds.
  • noun telecommunications A company that utilizes or builds on an existing telecommunications operator’s network (which includes telco and cable networks). These are often associated with advanced fiber-optic networks.

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Examples

  • Colleen Abdoulah, a former cable executive running an "overbuilder," WideOpenWest, testified in the House that program - access complaints now can take years before they are acted on, amounting to "a right without a remedy."

    BN - Broadcast Newsroom-news 2010

  • Colleen Abdoulah, a former cable executive running an "overbuilder," WideOpenWest, testified in the House that program - access complaints now can take years before they are acted on, amounting to "a right without a remedy."

    BN - Broadcast Newsroom-news 2010

  • Colleen Abdoulah, a former cable executive running an "overbuilder," WideOpenWest, testified in the House that program - access complaints now can take years before they are acted on, amounting to "a right without a remedy."

    BN - Broadcast Newsroom-news 2010

  • Colleen Abdoulah, a former cable executive running an "overbuilder," WideOpenWest, testified in the House that program - access complaints now can take years before they are acted on, amounting to "a right without a remedy."

    BN - Broadcast Newsroom-news 2010

  • "overbuilder," WideOpenWest, testified in the House that program-access complaints now can take years before they are acted on, amounting to "a right without a remedy."

    Multichannel News: Business News 2010

  • "overbuilder," WideOpenWest, testified in the House that program-access complaints now can take years before they are acted on, amounting to "a right without a remedy."

    Multichannel News: Business News 2010

  • RCNI), a competitive cable "overbuilder" as it gets ready to introduce a new TiVo device early next year that will offer customers access to a large library of "over-the-top" video from the Web and latches into the operator's legacy video-on-demand (VoD) system.

    Light Reading: 2009

  • The costs are so prohibitive for a wired plant, that no overbuilder can ever profit.

    TWC to Customers: You Don’t Want Tiers, You Don’t Get Super-fast Broadband 2009

  • You can get them from your phone company, your cable provider, an ISP and in some markets, an overbuilder.

    What is a Bit? - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBloggers 2009

  • By this time next year, we'll know if interactive television, after decades of technology or economics falling short, will finally connect with the American public through the combined effort of TV set makers, broadcast, cable, satellite and overbuilder ventures.

    By This Time Next Year... - Simon Applebaum - MediaBizBloggers 2009

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