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To: Scrapps who wrote (8460)	4/13/2000 4:06:00 PM
From: Perry P.	Respond to of 9236

Have you heard of the expression,"If you can't beat them, join them." ExciteAtHome to offer phone-based service PALO ALTO, Calif., April 11 (Reuters) - ExciteAtHome Corp. (NasdaqNM:ATHM - news) Tuesday will announce plans to offer a new high-speed Internet service over telephone lines, as a complement to its cable-based online service. The new service will come through a partnership with Rhythms NetConnections Inc. (NasdaqNM:RTHM - news), which provides broadband Internet services over digital subscriber lines, or DSL. ExciteAtHome said the new alliance will extend its ``broadband footprint,' or the number of homes it is capable of serving, by about 15.3 million. Combined with its primary cable service, this will give the company a total footprint of 87.3 million homes. Although the deal gives ExciteAtHome a broader potential customer base, it also marks a departure for the company, which has long marketed its cable-based Internet service as superior to DSL. In fact, the company's name is somewhat synonymous with cable. But the growth in the cable business has been constrained by a timely home installation process, and by the fact that large swaths of the country still do not have cable lines that are upgraded to deliver Internet content. In an interview Monday, Adam Grossner, President of Subscriber Networks for ExciteAtHome said the move was not so much a strategy shift as a practical move to expand its reach. ``We're looking for ways to aggressively expand,' he said. Perry P.