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To: Ben Shek who wrote (3388)	12/12/1998 12:42:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 29970

Ben That story has been out for a couple of days now. Greg

To: Ben Shek who wrote (3388)	12/12/1998 1:09:00 AM
From: neverenough	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

I think this is old news, but the site is worth checking out... cabledatacomnews.com Cable Modem Customer Count To Top 500,000 At Year's End North American MSOs Add 400,000 Internet Subs in 1998, Extend Service Availability Beyond 20 Million Homes CABLE DATACOM NEWS publisher Kinetic Strategies Inc. estimates North American MSOs will finish 1998 with 513,000 installed cable modem subscribers, up from 111,000 at the end of 1997, a one-year increase of 362 percent. As of December 31, 1998 cable modem service will be available to an estimated 21 million homes passed, 20 percent of all cable homes passed in North America. @Home Network is projected to finish 1998 with 305,000 subscribers and 11 million homes passed in the U.S. and Canada. Road Runner's MSO partners Time Warner Cable and MediaOne will end the year with an estimated 160,000 cable modem subscribers in the U.S. and 6.8 million homes passed. Together, @Home and Road Runner affiliates dominate the market, serving 90 percent of all cable modem subscribers in North America. North American Cable Modem Subscribers Projected for December 31, 1998 Source: Kinetic Strategies Inc. MSO CM Subs Affiliation 1. Time Warner 90,000 Road Runner 2. MediaOne 69,500 Road Runner 3. Shaw 69,000 @Home 4. Cox 62,000 @Home 5. Comcast 50,000 @Home 6. Rogers 40,000 @Home 7. TCI 35,000 @Home 8. Cogeco 21,000 @Home 9. Adelphia 16,500 Independent 10. Cablevision 13,000 @Home Total Top 10 MSOs 466,000 Other MSOs 47,000 TOTAL 513,000 Total @Home Subscribers 305,000 Total Road Runner Subscribers 160,000 As a group, Canadian MSOs made a strong showing this year. Canadian MSOs are projected to finish 1998 with a total of 140,000 cable modem subscribers, an impressive 1.4-percent penetration of all 10 million homes passed by cable in the country. By comparison, U.S. MSOs will finish the year with an estimated 373,000 cable modem subscribers, only .4 percent penetration of the approximately 93 million American homes passed by cable.