The time constant gives the time in seconds during which the voltage between the terminating wires of a charged capacitor decreases to 37% due to self-discharging. With capacitance values in the ÂµF range, the time constant at the time of delivery is usually between 2000 and 4000 seconds.
According to the company website, Charter Communications became a publicly traded company in 1999, so it is owned by shareholders. As of May 2014, Thomas M. Rutledge is the president and CEO.
I contacted the SC Secretary of State's office (who now issues cable franchises in SC) to find out who really owns the cable lines here. They must have contacted Charter, because Charter's VP of operations for this area called me and confirmed it was BroadStar's lines, but he couldn't get them on the phone either.