Check the News (and the "strageic partners" noted here......
hummmmmmm.....
Comments anyone? Or has the stock slid so much that not many folks are still here....??
KLP
siliconinvestor.com
Insight Communications Selects High Speed Access Corp. to Support
Delivery of Internet Services to its Metro Columbus, Ohio, Customers
HSA to Manage Sales, Installation & Customer Service Functions
COLUMBUS, Ohio and DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000-- Insight
Communications (Nasdaq: ICCI), which
serves approximately 85,000 customers in the Columbus area, has selected High
Speed Access Corp. (HSA) to support its
delivery of Road Runner Internet services to area residents. The strategic relationship
calls for HSA to provide sales,
installation, provisioning, local content and tier one customer care for Insight's
broadband Internet customers.
"This is the absolute best combination of resources for meeting the broadband Internet
needs of our Central Ohio customers,"
stated Gregg Graff, Insight's Senior Vice President and General manager for
Columbus. "Road Runner Columbus has
established a powerful brand presence in the local market. In addition, HSA is
developing the industry's highest standards for
quality of service. Our customers will be well served by this blending of the best in
content, connectivity and customer service."
HSA employees, operating under the Road Runner brand, will coordinate sales
marketing, installation, modem purchasing and
provisioning and tier one customer care services on Insight's behalf. HSA's sales and
customer care personnel will integrate
billing for Internet service with Insight's billing system, resulting in one monthly
statement for Insight's customers. HSA will also
be responsible for the development of local web content and local web advertising
sales, coordinating them with Road Runner
and Insight. As previously announced, Road Runner will oversee the local and national
network connectivity linking Insight's
customers to the Internet and the World Wide Web. In addition, Road Runner
provides national content and online
applications, such as e-mail resources, as well as tier two customer service, including
an online Help Desk.
"This relationship signifies the extension of HSA's expertise from the exurban market,
where we often play a full service, turnkey
role, to larger markets, where our services can complement the resources and ISP
relationships of our local cable partners,"
stated Dan O'Brien, President & COO of High Speed Access Corp. "We're also very
pleased to engage in the first market
deployment with Road Runner. In addition to giving Insight's customers highly valued
and customized content, it illustrates one
of the options available to ISPs for working together on the same local broadband
network."
About Insight Communications - Insight Communications Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:
ICCI) is a cable television operator based
in New York City, and specializes in offering a variety of state-of-the-art
entertainment, educational and information services
tailored to each local community. The company is the 8th-largest cable operator in the
United States, owning or managing
approximately one million subscribers in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, California
and Georgia.
About HSA - High Speed Access Corp. (Nasdaq: HSAC) is a leading provider of
high-speed Internet access via cable
modem to residential and commercial end users in exurban areas. The Company
believes that it provides the most
comprehensive turnkey solution available to the cable operator. Its service enables
subscribers to receive Internet access at
speeds substantially faster than traditional Internet access at minimal cost to the cable
operator. HSA is also engaged in the
deployment of IP telephony, video conferencing, high-quality audio and distance
learning, e-commerce applications, set-top
boxes and other interactive services.
About Road Runner - Road Runner (www.rr.com) is a leading cable broadband online
service, serving in excess of 550,000
customers in the communities where it is available. It is a joint venture among affiliates
of Time Warner Inc., MediaOne Group,
Microsoft Corp., Compaq Corp. and Advance/Newhouse. It combines the resources
and strategic talent of five partners who
are world leaders in media, broadband communications, computer software and
hardware and publishing. The Road Runner
character is a trademark and copyright of Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner
Entertainment Company, L.P.
This press release contains statements about future events and expectations, which are
"forward-looking statements." Any
statement in this press release that is not a statement of historical fact may be deemed
to be a forward-looking statement. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors which may cause the company's
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future
results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Specific factors that might
cause such a difference include, but are
not limited to: the company's unproven business model; the company's history of losses
and anticipation of future losses; the
potential fluctuations in the company's operating results; the company's competition; the
company's potential inability to attract
and retain end users; the company's potential inability to establish or maintain
relationships with cable operators, including
Charter; the possibility that our contract with Road Runner may not benefit us; and
those risks and uncertainties discussed in
filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
those risks and uncertainties contained
under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Registration Statement on Form
S-1 as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Contact:
Media Contacts:
Insight Communications
Colleen Quinn, 212/371-2266
cquinn@insight-com.com
or
High Speed Access
Katina Vlahadamis, 303/256-2018
kvlahadamis@hsacorp.net
or
Road Runner
Randi Shumaker, 703/345-3458
rshumaker@va.rr.com |
