Cable television and telephone operators in the UK will spend UKP1,200m this year developing their networks, according to the Cable Television Association: it says its members have already spent UKP1,500m laying their networks past more than 3m homes, to rise by 1.6m homes this year and another 2m in 1995; cable television subscribers in Britain total 610,256, some 22% of the 3.1m homes currently passed by cable; by January 1 operators had installed a total 312,000 phone lines, up from 109,000 a year ago – residential lines totalled 278,000 with business lines at 34,012.
