Small MSO Buys ISPs -- and Gets DSL.(Millennium Digital Media has been buying many Internet Service Providers)
Multichannel News, May, 2000 by FARRELL, MIKE
Some small cable operators looking to build their customer bases for future high-speed-data services have long believed that the solution was to buy small dial-up Internet-service providers in their operating areas. That way, they could learn the business, build a customer base that could be upsold high-speed service later and, critically, obtain employees who know how to run an ISP.
Although the early buying frenzy has waned in recent months, some small operators are still following that course and beginning to reap the benefits. Perhaps the most active small MSO in that arena lately has been Millennium Digital Media, the St.-Louis-based start-up with about 250,000 subscribers. In late March, Millennium bought its seventh ISP --...
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