@Home Network
@Home Network
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founding | 1996 |
resolution | 2002 |
Reason for dissolution | Merger with Ziggo |
Seat | Redwood City , United States |
Number of employees | 1,350 |
Branch | Internet services |
@Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider from 1996 to 2002.
history
It was founded by Milo Medin, cable company 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 services over a two-way television cable network. Infrastructure established. In the company's heyday, it provided high-speed Internet services to 4.1 million subscribers in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and the Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). The company operated as four joint ventures, three of which were internationally active. In 1999 the company acquired Excite . In 2008, @Home was merged with Ziggo .