@Home Network
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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.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Telecommunication |
Founded | July 11, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-07-11) |
Defunct | October 1, 2001; 22 years ago (2001-10-01) |
Fate | Bankruptcy |
Successor | Ziggo |
Headquarters | United States |
Key people | William Randolph Hearst III, co-founder and CEO |
Products | Broadband Internet access |
Number of employees | 1,350 |
Subsidiaries | Excite |