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(at)Home Starts Cable Net Access in Fremont, Calif.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 1996 by Antonucci, Mike
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Sep. 5--The (at)Home Network, a heavily ballyhooed venture that will provide high-speed Internet connections over cable television wires, has begun offering commercial service in Fremont, Calif.
A spokeswoman for Tele-Communications Inc., a major backer, said Wednesday that (at)Home is being made available to an area of "several thousand homes" at the outset and that further details would be announced today.
Phone sales representatives are quoting a price of $34.95 a month for unlimited access, plus $150 installation.
That price is high compared with the $20 a month typically charged by Internet-access providers that use phone lines. But (at)Home is betting on the appeal of its cable-modem speeds -- as fast as 10 million bits per...
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