Jones Intercable was a cable television

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 company founded by Glenn Jones in 1970. Jones, already a cable television veteran, had bought his first cable system in Georgetown, Colorado

Georgetown, Colorado

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 after taking a $400 loan on his Volkswagen.

The company expanded rapidly and by 1994 had 1.4 million subscribers.

In 1993, 30% of the company was purchased by BCI Telecom Holdings

Bell Canada

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. Their partial ownership of the cable firm would not last as on 26 May 1998 Comcast

Comcast

Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

announced it would be buying BCI's 37% portion of the cable giant.

Around September 1999, it was announced that Comcast had started to buy up the company's stock. Comcast had purchased almost a million Class-A shares of Jones Intercable from Jones International along with almost 3,000 from Glenn Jones himself.

This led to Comcast taking full control of Jones Intercable.