Mediacom Firms Up Data Transition
By Karen Brown -- Multichannel News, 1/8/2002 8:45:00 AM
Mediacom Communications Corp. said it signed a multiyear agreement with AT&T Corp. to provide Internet-protocol network backbone and some core support behind its "Mediacom Online" high-speed-data service.
Mediacom, of Middletown, N.Y., had been an affiliate of Excite@Home Corp.'s @Home Solutions unit.
Mediacom said the relaunched service would beef up mail functions and add to local content for subscribers.
Customers will start being moved over to the new service later this month.
In December, Mediacom agreed to pay Excite@Home $10 million in upfront fees to maintain network access through Feb. 28 so Mthat ediacom's 113,000 cable modem customers would maintain access to @Home electronic-mail accounts along with new @mchsi.com e-mail accounts.
'With this announcement, we are taking a major step toward providing our customers with a much improved Internet experience while at the same time gaining greater control of our valuable high-speed Internet business,' Mediacom chairman and CEO Rocco Commisso said in a prepared statement.
'We are on track with transitioning our customers from the Excite@Home service with minimal disruption, if any, before Feb. 28.'
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