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Time Warner's Road Runner service, which began as a small trial in Elmira, New York, is available to 300,000 homes in Akron and neighboring Canton, Ohio, and is set to expand in Elmira and Corning, New York, this year, and to San Diego soon after...
...outside world via cable-TV lines instead of phone lines. In the past two weeks, America's two largest cable operators, TCI and Time Warner, launched the nation's first commercial cable-modem services in Fremont, California, and Akron, Ohio, respectively. Time Warner built its own service, dubbed Road Runner (after Warner Bros.' lightning-speed cartoon character); TCI joined forces with a Silicon Valley start-up called @Home. The basic pitch, however, is the same: Net access at speeds hundreds of times faster than today's conventional modems...
...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...
Turner took runner-up in that first pageant and afterwards ran into a woman who said she had potential. She received pointers over the telephone from this woman, Turner says, which ultimately helped her take first place at her next local pageant...
King's legal troubles began as a Cleveland numbers runner. In 1954, he killed a man who was robbing one of his gambling houses. He was cleared when the slaving was ruled self-defense...