41.   Shares of companies that provide cable transmission equipment to Tele-Communications Inc. tumbled after the cable service provider told vendors to stop shipping orders already made.

42.   Since then it has acknowledged talking with other cable providers about similar investments with the same goal in mind.

43.   So consumers have choices if they are not satisfied with their cable providers.

44.   Should you pop for a cable modem from your cable provider?

45.   So I tried to call my local cable provider to get the service installed in the new home.

46.   Switching to a cable provider for the second week brought marginally better results.

47.   That could prompt CNN to lower the fee it charges cable providers to carry the channel, analysts said.

48.   That is about four times the value of Charter Communications, the fourth-biggest cable provider.

49.   That spurred a rally among cable stocks on the belief that more and more people will seek Internet access through traditional cable providers.

50.   That would make TCI the dominant cable provider in the Bay Area.