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To: Rande Is who wrote (10249)	8/2/1999 9:22:00 AM
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CABLE MODEM SCORE CARD. . . .Cable Modem Customer Count Tops 1 Million PHOENIX, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Kinetic Strategies Inc., publisher of Cable Datacom News (http://www.cabledatacomnews.com), more than 1 million households in the United States and Canada now subscribe to cable modem services. Of this total, approximately 70 percent are in the U.S. with the remainder in Canada. Kinetic Strategies estimates cable modem service is available to 32 million households, equal to 30 percent of all cable homes passed. On average, more than 2,500 new cable modem customers are now installed each day. Cable Internet service providers (ISPs) Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) and Road Runner serve more than 90 percent of all North American cable modem customers. As of June 30, Excite@Home counted an estimated 620,000 customers while Road Runner served 340,000. As a result, Excite@Home served 59 percent of the total North American cable Internet market at the end of the second quarter, while Road Runner served 32 percent. The balance was served by independent cable operators and ISPs, such as Adelphia Communications, SoftNet Systems Inc. and High Speed Access Corp. Road Runner affiliates Time Warner Cable and MediaOne had the largest cable modem customer totals as of June 30. Time Warner served 186,000 customers while MediaOne counted 140,000. Shaw Communications led @Home affiliates with 120,000 customers, followed by Cox Communications with 112,000 subscribers and Rogers Communications with 100,500. CABLE MODEM CUSTOMER RANKINGS 6/30/99 Cable Operator Cable Modem Customers ------------------------ ----------------------- Time Warner Cable 186,000 MediaOne 140,000 Shaw Communications 120,000 Cox Communications 112,000 Rogers Cablesystems 100,500 Comcast 95,000 AT&T 83,000 Other 215,500 TOTAL 1,052,000 Cable modems have emerged as the leading consumer choice for high-speed Internet access, outpacing alternatives such as ADSL, satellite and broadband wireless technologies. However, cable modems still account for a small portion of the overall Internet access market, which now exceeds 30 million users. The North American cable industry installed 500,000 cable modem customers in the first six months of 1999. By comparison, North America's largest ISP, America Online Inc., attracted more than 2 million new customers alone during the same period. Kinetic Strategies Inc. (http://www.kineticstrategies.com) is a leading broadband research firm based in Phoenix, Ariz. The company publishes Cable Datacom News, the only information service exclusively tracking the cable modem market. Contact: Michael Harris, Kinetic Strategies 602-598-9500 SOURCE Kinetic Strategies Inc.