>Cox and Comcast had decided in June to stop offering
>Internet access exclusively through ExciteAtHome. Both
>companies said in August they would stop using
>ExciteAtHome altogether next year.
>
>So, don't go recommending Cox! At least not
>yet...kinda makes me glad now I'm on my piddley
>144kbps DLS!
>
Comcast, at least, has been using other (RR/ATT) broadband besides @Home
(thus, "exclusively" above) since June; since that's the way I'm hooked up
(and for most people who started with ComCast since June unless they were
unfortunate enough to be in some certain localities, there's not a problem
for recent subscribers. Switching away from @Home has been going on for a
bit, now.
I would hope that Cox did something similar, and that at least a portion of
their base (at least Laurent's! :) would be independent ot the @Home
network, but could not confirm this. The article mentions 550,000 Cox
subscribers, which seems perhaps a little low and thus a subset of total
users, but like I said I looked a bit and cannot show this to be true.....
B
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