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...couldn't remember when the shuttle actually ran so I just grabbed a cab. It's easier," said David B. "Britt" Bolen '00, who went home by plane last weekend...
...commercial online services, which charge by the hour, can rack up huge monthly bills. Cable modems, for about $35 a month, not only deliver dramatically faster performance, but also, like cable TV, are "on" 24 hours a day with no extra-usage charge. Time Warner Cable president Glenn Britt says the Akron rollout has a waiting list 1,800 names long...
...fiber solution, though, comes only at dreadful expense. Time Warner, says Britt, spent close to $175 a home upgrading Akron for the Road Runner launch. At 300,000 homes, that comes to $52.5 million in fiber alone for one midsize market. At that rate, upgrading Time Warner's entire 11.8 million-home empire would cost more than $2 billion--and that doesn't include the cost of the modems ($400 a subscriber, but probably dropping fast) and other expenses...
...acknowledges that it's taken the company longer than expected to work out glitches, but adds that "our new network works. Akron is the real deal." The solution to balky coax networks? Replace the balkiest portions with gleaming fiber-optic wire. The Akron system and those that follow, says Britt, will run fiber from the head ends to local nodes serving 500 homes apiece...
...analog media converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access, for the moment, is just an intriguing appetizer to a main course comprising telephones, wireless data services and even interactive television. "Eventually this architecture will let us do what we've done in Orlando," says Britt, referring to Time Warner's famously costly interactive TV adventure. "We'd like to attach our cable to any video or telephone device you have in your house...