Defunct Internet Service Providers - @Home Network, Intercon Systems Corporation, Connexion by Boeing, World Online, Clarknet, the Pipeline (Paperback)

Chapters: @home Network, Intercon Systems Corporation, Connexion by Boeing, World Online, Clarknet, the Pipeline, Erol's, Mobilestar, Global Network Navigator, Freei, Twics, Ultranet, Brisbane Internet Exchange. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: @Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider from 1996 to 2002. It was founded by Milo Medin, cable companies 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. These cable companies were referred to as MSOs or Multi System Operators. At the company's peak it provided high speed Internet service for 4.1 million subscribers in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, and Benelux, operating four joint ventures, three of which were international. The Passing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 enabled cable companies to start to offer Internet telephony services to customers. Brainchild of the company's first VP of Engineering and later Chief Technology Officer Milo Medin, the company got its start from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield