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                                                                     EXHIBIT 3.2

                                     BY-LAWS

                                       OF

                            TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC.



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                                    ARTICLE I

                                     OFFICES

                  SECTION 1. REGISTERED OFFICE -- The registered office of
Tele-Communications, Inc. (the ?Corporation?) shall be established and
maintained at the office of The Corporation Trust Company at The Corporation
Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street in the City of Wilmington, County of New
Castle, State of Delaware, and said Corporation Trust Company shall be the
registered agent of the Corporation in charge thereof.

                  SECTION 2. OTHER OFFICES -- The Corporation may have other
offices, either within or without the State of Delaware, at such place or places
as the Board of Directors may from time to time select or the business of the
Corporation may require.


                                   ARTICLE II

                            MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

                  SECTION 1. ANNUAL MEETINGS -- Annual meetings of stockholders
for the election of directors, and for such other business as may be stated in
the notice of the meeting, shall be held at such place, either within or without
the State of Delaware, and at such time and date as the Board of Directors, by
resolution, shall determine and as set forth in the notice of the meeting. If
the Board of Directors fails so to determine the time, date and place of
meeting, the annual meeting of stockholders shall be held at the registered
office of the Corporation on the first Tuesday in April. If the date of the
annual meeting shall fall upon a legal holiday, the meeting shall be held on the
next succeeding business day. At each annual meeting, the stockholders entitled
to vote shall elect a Board of Directors and they may transact such other
corporate business as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting.



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                  SECTION 2. SPECIAL MEETINGS -- Special meetings of the
stockholders for any purpose or purposes may be called by the President or the
Secretary, or by resolution of the Board of Directors.

                  SECTION 3. VOTING -- Each stockholder entitled to vote in
accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation
and these By-Laws may vote in person or by proxy, but no proxy shall be voted
after three years from its date unless such proxy provides for a longer period.
All elections for directors shall be decided by plurality vote; all other
questions shall be decided by majority vote except as otherwise provided by the
Certificate of Incorporation or the laws of the State of Delaware.

                  A complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the
meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of each, and the
number of shares held by each, shall be open to the examination of any
stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business
hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place
within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified
in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the
meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and
place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any
stockholder who is entitled to be present.

                  SECTION 4. QUORUM -- Except as otherwise required by law, by
the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or by these By-Laws, the
presence, in person or by proxy, of stockholders holding shares constituting a
majority of the voting power of the Corporation shall constitute a quorum at all
meetings of the stockholders. In case a quorum shall not be present at any
meeting, a majority in interest of the stockholders entitled to vote thereat,
present in person or by proxy, shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from
time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until the
requisite amount of stock entitled to vote shall be present. At any such
adjourned meeting at which the requisite amount of stock entitled to vote shall
be represented, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted
at the meeting as originally noticed; but only those stockholders entitled to
vote at the meeting as originally noticed shall be entitled to vote at any
adjournment or adjournments thereof.

                  SECTION 5. NOTICE OF MEETINGS -- Written notice, stating the
place, date and time of the meeting, and the general nature of the business to
be considered, shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat, at
his or her address as it appears on the records of the Corporation, not less
than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting. No business
other than that stated in the notice shall be transacted at any meeting without
the unanimous consent of all the stockholders entitled to vote thereat.

                  SECTION 6. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING -- Unless otherwise provided
by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, any action required or
permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be
taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent
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of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would
be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares
entitled to vote thereon were present and voted. Prompt notice of the taking of
the corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent
shall be given to those stockholders who have not consented in writing.


                                   ARTICLE III

                                    DIRECTORS

                  SECTION 1. NUMBER AND TERM -- The business and affairs of the
Corporation shall be managed under the direction of a Board of Directors which
shall consist of not less than three persons. The exact number of directors
shall initially be three and may thereafter be fixed from time to time by the
Board of Directors. Directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of
stockholders and each director shall be elected to serve until his or her
successor shall be elected and shall qualify. A director need not be a
stockholder.

                  SECTION 2. RESIGNATIONS -- Any director may resign at any
time. Such resignation shall be made in writing, and shall take effect at the
time specified therein, and if no time be specified, at the time of its receipt
by the President or the Secretary. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be
necessary to make it effective.

                  SECTION 3. VACANCIES -- If the office of any director becomes
vacant, the remaining directors in the office, though less than a quorum, by a
majority vote, may appoint any qualified person to fill such vacancy, who shall
hold. office for the unexpired term and until his or her successor shall be duly
chosen. If the office of any director becomes vacant and there are no remaining
directors, the stockholders, by the affirmative vote of the holders of shares
constituting a majority of the voting power of the Corporation, at a special
meeting called for such purpose, may appoint any qualified person to fill such
vacancy.

                  SECTION 4. REMOVAL -- Except as hereinafter provided, any
director or directors may be removed either for or without cause at any time by
the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power entitled
to vote for the election of directors, at an annual meeting or a special meeting
called for the purpose, and the vacancy thus created may be filled, at such
meeting, by the affirmative vote of holders of shares constituting a majority of
the voting power of the Corporation.

                  SECTION 5. COMMITTEES -- The Board of Directors may, by
resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the whole Board of Directors,
designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more
directors of the Corporation.

                  Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution
of the Board of Directors, or in these By-Laws, shall have and may exercise all
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of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation,
and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which
may require it.

                  SECTION 6. MEETINGS -- The newly elected directors may hold
their first meeting for the purpose of organization and the transaction of
business, if a quorum be present, immediately after the annual meeting of the
stockholders; or the time and place of such meeting may be fixed by consent of
all the Directors.

                  Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held without
notice at such places and times as shall be determined from time to time by
resolution of the Board of Directors.

                  Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by
the President, or by the Secretary on the written request of any director, on at
least one day?s notice to each director (except that notice to any director may
be waived in writing by such director) and shall be held at such place or places
as may be determined by the Board of Directors, or as shall be stated in the
call of the meeting.

                  Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation or these By-Laws, members of the Board of
Directors, or any committee designated by the Board of Directors, may
participate in any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof by
means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of
which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such
participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

                  SECTION 7. QUORUM -- A majority of the Directors shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If at any meeting of the
Board of Directors there shall be less than a quorum present, a majority of
those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time until a quorum is
obtained, and no further notice thereof need be given other than by announcement
at the meeting which shall be so adjourned. The vote of the majority of the
Directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of
the Board of Directors unless the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Corporation or these By-Laws shall require the vote of a greater number.

                  SECTION 8. COMPENSATION -- Directors shall not receive any
stated salary for their services as directors or as members of committees, but
by resolution of the Board of Directors a fixed fee and expenses of attendance
may be allowed for attendance at each meeting. Nothing herein contained shall be
construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other
capacity as an officer, agent or otherwise, and receiving compensation therefor.

                  SECTION 9. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING -- Any action required or
permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any
committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if a written consent thereto is
signed by all members of the Board of Directors or 


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of such committee, as the case may be, and such written consent is filed with
the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or such committee.


                                   ARTICLE IV

                                    OFFICERS

                  SECTION 1. OFFICERS -- The officers of the Corporation shall
be a President, a Vice President, a Treasurer, a Secretary and an Assistant
Secretary all of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors and shall hold
office until their successors are duly elected and qualified. In addition, the
Board of Directors may elect such Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers
as they may deem proper. The Board of Directors may appoint such other officers
and agents as it may deem advisable, who shall hold their offices for such terms
and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined
from time to time by the Board of Directors.

                  SECTION 2. PRESIDENT -- The President shall be the Chief
Operating Officer of the Corporation. He or she shall have the general powers
and duties of supervision and management usually vested in the office of
President of a corporation. The President shall have the power to execute bonds,
mortgages and other contracts on behalf of the Corporation, and to cause the
seal to be affixed to any instrument requiring it, and when so affixed the seal
shall be attested to by the signature of the Secretary or the Treasurer or an
Assistant Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer.

                  SECTION 3. VICE PRESIDENT -- The Vice President shall have
such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to him or her by
the Board of Directors.

                  SECTION 4. TREASURER -- The Treasurer shall be the Chief
Financial Officer of the Corporation. He or she shall have the custody of the
Corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate account of
receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation. He or she
shall deposit all moneys and other valuables in the name and to the credit of
the Corporation in such depositaries as may be designated by the Board of
Directors. He or she shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be
ordered by the Board of Directors or the President, taking proper vouchers for
such disbursements. He or she shall render to the President and Board of
Directors at the regular meetings of the Board of Directors, or whenever they
may request it, an account of all his or her transactions as Treasurer and of
the financial condition of the Corporation. If required by the Board of
Directors, he or she shall give the Corporation a bond for the faithful
discharge of his or her duties in such amount and with such surety as the Board
of Directors shall prescribe.

                  SECTION 5. SECRETARY -- The Secretary shall give, or cause to
be given, notice of all meetings of stockholders and of the Board of Directors
and all other notices required by law or by these By-Laws, and in case of his or
her absence or refusal or neglect so to do, any such notice may be given by any
person thereunto directed by the President or by the Board of Directors, upon
whose request the meeting is called as provided in these By-Laws. He or she
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proceedings of the meetings of the Board of Directors, any committees thereof
and the stockholders of the Corporation in a book to be kept for that purpose,
and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him or her by the
Board of Directors or the President. He or she shall have the custody of the
seal of the Corporation and shall affix the same to all instruments requiring
it, when authorized by the Board of Directors or the President, and attest to
the same.

                  SECTION 6. ASSISTANT TREASURERS AND ASSISTANT SECRETARIES --
Assistant Treasurers and Secretaries, if any, shall be elected and shall have
such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to them,
respectively, by the Board of Directors.


                                    ARTICLE V

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

                  SECTION 1. CERTIFICATES OF STOCK -- A certificate of stock
shall be issued to each stockholder certifying the number of shares owned by
such stockholder in the Corporation. Certificates of stock of the Corporation
shall be of such form and device as the Board of Directors may from time to time
determine.

                  SECTION 2. LOST CERTIFICATES -- A new certificate of stock may
be issued in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by the Corporation,
alleged to have been lost or destroyed, and the Board of Directors may, in its
discretion, require the owner of the lost or destroyed certificate, or such
owner?s legal representatives, to give the Corporation a bond, in such sum as
they may direct, not exceeding double the value of the stock, to indemnify the
Corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the
alleged loss of any such certificate, or the issuance of any such new
certificate.

                  SECTION 3. TRANSFER OF SHARES -- The shares of stock of the
Corporation shall be transferable only upon its books by the holders thereof in
person or by their duly authorized attorneys or legal representatives, and upon
such transfer the old certificates shall be surrendered to the Corporation by
the delivery thereof to the person in charge of the stock and transfer books and
ledgers, or to such other person as the Board of Directors may designate, by
whom they shall be cancelled, and new certificates shall thereupon be issued. A
record shall be made of each transfer and whenever a transfer shall be made for
collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry
of the transfer.

                  SECTION 4. STOCKHOLDERS RECORD DATE -- In order that the
Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at
any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to
corporate action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment of
any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to
exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or
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of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which
record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the
record date is adopted by the Board of Directors and which record date: (1) in
the case of determination of stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of
stockholders or adjournment thereof, shall, unless otherwise required by law,
not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting;
(2) in the case of determination of stockholders entitled to express consent to
corporate action in writing without a meeting, shall not be more than ten days
from the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the
Board of Directors; and (3) in the case of any other action, shall not be more
than sixty days prior to such other action. If no record date is fixed: (1) the
record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a
meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next
preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the
close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is
held; (2) the record date for determining stockholders entitled to express
consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting when no prior action of
the Board of Directors is required by law, shall be the first day on which a
signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is
delivered to the Corporation in accordance with applicable law, or, if prior
action by the Board of Directors is required by law, shall be at the close of
business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking
such prior action; and (3) the record date for determining stockholders for any
other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of
Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto. A determination of
stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of
stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however,
that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

                  SECTION 5. DIVIDENDS -- Subject to the provisions of the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, the Board of Directors may, out
of funds legally available therefor at any regular or special meeting, declare
dividends upon stock of the Corporation as and when they deem appropriate.
Before declaring any dividend there may be set apart out of any funds of the
Corporation available for dividends, such sum or sums as the Board of Directors
from time to time in their discretion deem proper for working capital or as a
reserve fund to meet contingencies or for equalizing dividends or for such other
purposes as the Board of Directors shall deem conducive to the interests of the
Corporation.

                  SECTION 6. SEAL -- The corporate seal of the Corporation shall
be in such form as shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.
Said seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or
affixed or reproduced or otherwise imprinted upon the subject document or paper.

                  SECTION 7. FISCAL YEAR -- The fiscal year of the Corporation
shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

                  SECTION 8. CHECKS -- All checks, drafts or other orders for
the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the
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by such officer or officers, or agent or agents, of the Corporation, and in such
manner as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of
Directors.

                  SECTION 9. NOTICE AND WAIVER OF NOTICE -- Whenever any notice
is required to be given under these By-Laws, personal notice is not required
unless expressly so stated, and any notice so required shall be deemed to be
sufficient if given by depositing the same in the United States mail, postage
prepaid, addressed to the person entitled thereto at his or her address as it
appears on the records of the Corporation, and such notice shall be deemed to
have been given on the day of such mailing. Stockholders not entitled to vote
shall not be entitled to receive notice of any meetings except as otherwise
provided by law. Whenever any notice is required to be given under the
provisions of any law, or under the provisions of the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation or of these By-Laws, a waiver thereof, in
writing and signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether
before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to such
required notice.

                                   ARTICLE VI

                                   AMENDMENTS

                  These By-Laws may be altered, amended or repealed at any
annual meeting of the stockholders (or at any special meeting thereof if notice
of such proposed alteration, amendment or repeal to be considered is contained
in the notice of such special meeting) by the affirmative vote of the holders of
shares constituting a majority of the voting power of the Corporation. Except as
otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, the
Board of Directors may by majority vote of those present at any meeting at which
a quorum is present alter, amend or repeal these By-Laws, or enact such other
By-Laws as in their judgment may be advisable for the regulation and conduct of
the affairs of the Corporation.


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