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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...
...finally striking back. Its secret weapon: blisteringly fast access to the Internet, courtesy of the cable modem, an electronic gadget that connects computers to the 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...
...bones access, and users of 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...
What's unclear is how effectively the problems have been solved. Jim Chiddix, Time Warner Cable's chief technical officer, 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...
...character as "A large, boisterous woman, 52, looking somewhat younger, ample, but not fleshy." Moulton hoofs around stage, frizzy red hair barely contained by a banana clip, more like a flouncy, black-bra-ed Roseanne than the saggy, sleazy yet sexy woman Liz Taylor portrays expertly in the 1966 Warner Bros. film adaptation...