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Monday January 4, 11:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Comcast Online Communications
Comcast Online Communications Announces The First-Ever Broadband Internet Portal
OnBroadband.com Provides Easy Access to Broadband Content and Applications For All High-Speed Internet Users, Including Cable Modems, ISDN, DSL or Internet via Wireless/Satellite
BALA CYNWYD, Pa., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Online Communications today announced that it is debuting the first-ever broadband portal providing high-speed internet users around the world with easy access to broadband content, commerce applications, tools, community resources, and other information at www.OnBroadband.com. Comcast Online is a leader in broadband services delivered via cable modems through its Comcast @Home service. However, the new site will provide a broadband resource for all internet users with high-speed connections, such as cable modems, ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), or wireless/satellite internet services.
This first-ever broadband portal provides specific sections for broadband consumers including a variety of multimedia enhanced information and entertainment including video enhanced shopping, up-to-the-minute news, live music, multi-player games, virtual reality tours, live sporting events and sports coverage, just to name a few. OnBroadband also provides information about broadband service providers and hardware manufacturers, as well as links to the best consumer software for broadband connections, such as video conferencing and IP telephony.
In addition, the site will be an invaluable resource to industry professionals and business users. It provides access to the best business-to- business e-commerce resources, showcases multimedia designers and interactive agencies, and guides users to the preeminent news sites, chat, and newsgroups about broadband.
The revolutionary new site offers a collection of more than one thousand of the most robust and interactive broadband sites on the internet to all high-speed internet users. Similar to traditional Web portals, OnBroadband will evolve from a program guide of Web sites to a multi-dimensional programming network with integrated multimedia content, commerce, communications, and community resources. It will also provide an invaluable channel for media advertisers who want to reach coveted broadband consumers and business users with messages that are unrestricted by Web banners.
''This exclusive broadband site will create an exciting new destination where all high-speed internet users can more thoroughly enjoy the incredible variety of broadband content that currently exists on the world wide Web, but may be overlooked,'' said Richard Rasmus, Vice President and General Manager, Comcast @Home. ''We believe OnBroadband will become a new hot spot for all broadband users from Comcast @Home customers to users of other high-speed internet services. This will be the place to watch the internet evolve,'' added Rasmus.
''Our goal is to continuously identify the best and most exciting broadband content and applications that are fragmented across the internet and present them in a user-friendly format,'' said Gaurav Suri, General Manager Content & Director Business Development, Comcast Online. ''There are over a million residential high speed internet users in the US, and there will be over two million by the end of next year. OnBroadband is the first comprehensive start page designed specifically for them,'' added Suri.
''Motorola applauds Comcast's innovative development to enhance the consumer's cable modem experience,'' said Dick Day, Corporate Vice President, Motorola, Inc. ''OnBroadband.com offers consumers a unique site to learn about and realize the monumental benefits of cable modem technology,'' added Day.
''The OnBroadband site will enhance navigation within Comcast's portfolio of interactive entertainment and e-commerce services, and will establish a new entry point into the emerging broadband Internet. Cisco is thrilled to be working with Comcast to build a new world infrastructure that can deliver more exciting and visually engaging experiences to Comcast @Home subscribers and broadband visitors,'' said Paul D. Bosco, General Manager of Cicsco's Cable Products and Solutions Group.
''Comcast's cutting-edge interactive video content and programming delivers unique, intuitive and entertaining experiences to consumers,'' said Joanna Shields, Chief Executive Officer, Veon, Inc. ''Veon is working with Comcast Online to provide HyperVideo capabilities to enable next generation interactive video E-commerce and entertainment for broadband users.''
''Comcast continues to aggressively think of the consumer. That's a recipe for success,'' said Sharon H. Brown, Executive Vice President, TCI Music. ''Our programming services The BOX and SonicNet are already developing custom content for the Comcast 'InYourTown' sites and our music offerings can grow as their capabilities expand.''
Comcast Online Communications was recently honored with an Innovator Award in New Media from Cablevision magazine for its InYourTown.com local city guides and educational Web site, OnlineSchoolyard.com. In addition, InYourTown was awarded the first-ever ''Best Web Site Award'' for its ''InTheGardenState.com'' (New Jersey) at the Western Cable Show in Anaheim, California on December 11, 1997 and Online Schoolyard has won a Beacon Award for the best Web site in 1998.
InYourTown provides unique local content for Comcast @Home and Comcast Cable customers in 24 different Comcast Cable markets around the country, and all internet users worldwide. The InYourTown.com sites provide a unique multimedia experience and local content that is invaluable to users, such as arts, entertainment, business, dining, sports, community events, and other information that is created by local Comcast Online Content teams and content partners. The InYourTown guides can be found at www.InYourTown.com.
Comcast Online Communications, through its partnership with @Home Network, offers residential customers the fastest, easiest, and most entertaining way to access the internet from home in 9 markets. Comcast Online Communications can be found on the Web at www.ComcastOnline.com.
Comcast Corporation is principally engaged in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks, wired and wireless telecommunications systems and the provision of content. Comcast is the fourth largest domestic cable company serving approximately 4.5 million customers. Comcast's wireless operations serve markets with a population of approximately 8.4 million and also include the Company's investment in Sprint PCS. Comcast provides content through its majority-owned subsidiaries, QVC, E! Entertainment Television, Comcast-Spectacor and Comcast SportsNet, and through other investments, including The Golf Channel, Speedvision and Outdoor Life. Comcast's Class A and Class A Special Common Stock are traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively. More information on Comcast Corporation can be found on the Company's Web site on the Internet at www.Comcast.com.
SOURCE: Comcast Online Communications
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