At Home Reports Service Delays on Rising Volume, Chronicle Says
San Francisco, Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- At Home Corp., a provider of Internet access through cable television, is having problems accommodating large numbers of users at any one time, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. At Home acknowledged in a Nov. 16 federal filing that its network may be ''unable to achieve or maintain a high speed of data transmission, especially as the number of customer subscribers grows.'' The statements are a setback for At Home, which boasted its cable connection to the Internet is 100 times faster than normal modems, the paper said.
At Home shares rose more than 30 percent in November on investor optimism that the Redwood City, California-based company will become a big component of the emerging Internet industry.
(Chronicle, 12/1, A1, www.sfgate.com)
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