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Deals with the blueprint received by the city council of Los Angeles, California for an all-digital conversion from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California. Benefits of converting to a digital cable platform; Range of agreements sought from various telecommunications firms; Comments from Jack Weiss, city councilman and chairman of the Information Technology and General Services committee.

Reports on the plan of the city government to offer a city-wide Wi-Fi network that will be free or very cheap in San Francisco, California. Move of the city to follow the decision of other cities to offer similar networks; Selection of Dell to provide cheap personal computers to city residents.

Reports on the second phase of the digital advertisement simulcast deployed by Charter Communications Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin in 2005. Plan of the company for its facilities in Long Beach, California and Madison; Discussion within the company about the digital-program advertisement insertion; Average homes served by the company with its primary and secondary hubs.

Reports on the launch of a video-over-asymmetrical digital subscriber line by SureWest Communications Inc. in Sacramento, California as of March 2004. Challenges in the rollout of the service; Partners in the open-architecture system; Capabilities of the system.

Reports on the launch of Weatherscan local weather service by Comcast Corp. in California in November 2003. Areas in which the services will be available; Number of digital television subscribers in the area which may avail the service as of November 2003; Benefits of subscribing the local weather service.

Los Angeles, California division of Time Warner Cable Inc. has been ranked at second position for its "Operation Orange" advertising campaign in the CTAM 2003 Digital Case Study Competition. John Trierweiler is the vice president of the company for marketing and sales operations. The company addressed its digital-churn problems by simplifying its digital packages and making a renewed effort to win back lost subscribers. The system started with price point of 39.95 dollars for 200 digital channels, digital music and video-on-demand access, then offered any extra digital premium network for five dollars more each month. For existing digital customers paying more than any new tier rate, the company called to offer more premium networks in extant packages for one dollar increase in prices. 40 percent of all those customers who were contacted took three or more pays.