Comcast Online Communications Announces The First-Ever Broadband Internet Portal.
January 4, 1999 -- Comcast Online
Communications today announced that it is
debuting the first-ever broadband portal
providing high-speed internet users around
the world with easy access to broadband
content, commerce applications, tools,
community resources, and other information
at www.OnBroadband.com. Comcast Online
is a leader in broadband services delivered
via cable modems through its Comcast
@Home service. However, the new site will
provide a broadband resource for all internet
users with high-speed connections, such as
cable modems, ISDN (Integrated Services
Digital Network), DSL (Digital Subscriber
Line), or wireless/satellite internet services.
This first-ever broadband portal provides
specific sections for broadband consumers
including a variety of multimedia enhanced
information and entertainment including
video enhanced shopping, up-to-the-minute
news, live music, multi-player games, virtual
reality tours, live sporting events and sports
coverage, just to name a few. OnBroadband
also provides information about broadband
service providers and hardware
manufacturers, as well as links to the best
consumer software for broadband
connections, such as video conferencing
and IP telephony.
In addition, the site will be an invaluable
resource to industry professionals and
business users. It provides access to the
best business-to- business e-commerce
resources, showcases multimedia designers
and interactive agencies, and guides users
to the preeminent news sites, chat, and
newsgroups about broadband.
The revolutionary new site offers a
collection of more than one thousand of the
most robust and interactive broadband sites
on the internet to all high-speed internet
users. Similar to traditional Web portals,
OnBroadband will evolve from a program
guide of Web sites to a multi-dimensional
programming network with integrated
multimedia content, commerce,
communications, and community resources.
It will also provide an invaluable channel for
media advertisers who want to reach
coveted broadband consumers and
business users with messages that are
unrestricted by Web banners.
"This exclusive broadband site will create an
exciting new destination where all
high-speed internet users can more
thoroughly enjoy the incredible variety of
broadband content that currently exists on
the world wide Web, but may be
overlooked,'' said Richard Rasmus, Vice
President and General Manager, Comcast
@Home. "We believe OnBroadband will
become a new hot spot for all broadband
users from Comcast @Home customers to
users of other high-speed internet services.
This will be the place to watch the internet
evolve,'' added Rasmus.
"Our goal is to continuously identify the
best and most exciting broadband content
and applications that are fragmented across
the internet and present them in a
user-friendly format,'' said Gaurav Suri,
General Manager Content & Director
Business Development, Comcast Online.
"There are over a million residential high
speed internet users in the US, and there will
be over two million by the end of next year.
OnBroadband is the first comprehensive
start page designed specifically for them,''
added Suri.
"Motorola applauds Comcast's innovative
development to enhance the consumer's
cable modem experience,'' said Dick Day,
Corporate Vice President, Motorola, Inc.
"OnBroadband.com offers consumers a
unique site to learn about and realize the
monumental benefits of cable modem
technology,'' added Day.
"The OnBroadband site will enhance
navigation within Comcast's portfolio of
interactive entertainment and e-commerce
services, and will establish a new entry
point into the emerging broadband Internet.
Cisco is thrilled to be working with Comcast
to build a new world infrastructure that can
deliver more exciting and visually engaging
experiences to Comcast @Home subscribers
and broadband visitors,'' said Paul D. Bosco,
General Manager of Cicsco's Cable Products
and Solutions Group.
"Comcast's cutting-edge interactive video
content and programming delivers unique,
intuitive and entertaining experiences to
consumers,'' said Joanna Shields, Chief
Executive Officer, Veon, Inc. "Veon is
working with Comcast Online to provide
HyperVideo capabilities to enable next
generation interactive video E-commerce
and entertainment for broadband users.''
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