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@Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider from 1996 to 2002. It was founded by Milo Medin, cable companies Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), Comcast, and Cox Communications, and William Randolph Hearst III, who was their first CEO, as a joint venture to produce high-speed cable Internet service through two-way television cable infrastructure. At the company's peak it provided high speed Internet service for 4.1 million subscribers in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the Benelux nations (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). The company operated as four joint ventures, three of which were international. In 1999, the company acquired Excite. In 2008, @Home was merged into Ziggo. (en) @Home Network war von 1996 bis 2002 ein Anbieter von Hochgeschwindigkeitskabel-Internetdiensten. (de) @Home (tot 1 februari 2007: Essent Kabelcom) was van 1999 tot 2007 een aanbieder van televisie, breedbandinternet en telefoniediensten in Nederland, totdat het samen met Multikabel en Casema fuseerde tot Ziggo. Het hoofdkantoor van @Home was gevestigd in Groningen. Het bedrijf ontstond in 1999 door een fusie van met . (nl) |
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@Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider from 1996 to 2002. It was founded by Milo Medin, cable companies Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), Comcast, and Cox Communications, and William Randolph Hearst III, who was their first CEO, as a joint venture to produce high-speed cable Internet service through two-way television cable infrastructure. At the company's peak it provided high speed Internet service for 4.1 million subscribers in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the Benelux nations (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). The company operated as four joint ventures, three of which were international. In 1999, the company acquired Excite. In 2008, @Home was merged into Ziggo. (en) @Home Network war von 1996 bis 2002 ein Anbieter von Hochgeschwindigkeitskabel-Internetdiensten. (de) @Home (tot 1 februari 2007: Essent Kabelcom) was van 1999 tot 2007 een aanbieder van televisie, breedbandinternet en telefoniediensten in Nederland, totdat het samen met Multikabel en Casema fuseerde tot Ziggo. Het hoofdkantoor van @Home was gevestigd in Groningen. Het bedrijf ontstond in 1999 door een fusie van met . (nl) |
