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To: Stoctrash who wrote (30378)	3/6/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

TCI Taps @Home Network for E-mail over Advanced Boxes 03/09/98 Video Competition Report Copyright (c) 1998 Telecommunications Reports International, Inc. Tele-Communications, Inc., has announced a "comprehensive agreement" for @Home Network to develop software and integration services for TCI's planned deployment of advanced digital set-top terminals. TCI, which last year agreed to purchase up to 11.9 million advanced converters from General Instrument Corp. (VCR, Jan. 12, 1997), said @Home would manage all of TCI's customer e-mail accounts over the advanced boxes, providing connectivity, e-mail servers, and overall system management. TCI said the deal made @Home, which mainly is owned by TCI, Comcast Corp., and Cox Communications, Inc., the "primary contractor" for software integration of data services through TCI's new boxes. Terms of the agreement weren't disclosed. TCI had been expected to include @Home in its set-top plans because it already owns the majority stake in the high- speed Internet access provider. In addition, @Home partner Comcast recently received a $1 billion investment by Microsoft Corp., which since has contracted with TCI to provide the operating systems for the new advanced boxes. TCI has signed a separate deal with Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an undisclosed number of the new boxes to use the "JAVA" software platform (VCR, Jan. 26). @Home also will work with TCI's National Digital Television Center (NDTC), the company's uplink center for its "Headend in the Sky" service providing precompressed digital video packages for cable TV affiliates. @Home will ensure "that application frameworks are consistent with conditions and specifications currently outlined by [Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.'s] OpenCable initiative," TCI said. OpenCable is the industry's research and development effort to create interoperable standards for advanced digital set-top boxes. TCI said NDTC would coordinate with Microsoft, Sun, and other technology suppliers to incorporate their various operating systems and software platforms into the new set-tops.