@Home Nederland to Launch Cable Internet With New Partner.@Home's Dutch subsidiary, @Home Nederland Nederland (nē`dərlənd), city (1990 pop. 16,192), Jefferson co., SE Tex.; founded by Dutch settlers as a rice-farming community in 1897, inc. 1940. NV, will start rolling out national cable internet Internet access via the cable companies. There are two kinds of service. One uses a cable modem to connect to a computer, and the other uses an enhanced cable box that provides Internet access directly at the TV. service to 126,000 households this month, and has partnered with local cable operator NV Nutsbedrijven Maastricht Maastricht (mäs`trĭkht'), city (1994 pop. 118,102), capital of Limburg prov., SE Netherlands, on the Maas (Meuse) River and on the Albert Canal system. It is an important rail and river transportation point and an industrial center. , to stretch its service 55,000 more subscribers in the cities of Maastricht and Eijsden Eijsden ( (helpinfo)) is a municipality and region in the south of the Netherlands province Limburg. Limburg is the most southerly province, extending the Netherlands border south like a peninsula, with the French-speaking Wallonia region of Belgium in the fourth quarter. The company is a joint venture between @Home Network Corp, Intel Corp and two Dutch cable operators, CasTel and Palet Kabelcom, which will take the roll-out to four Dutch cities. This is the first stage of @Home's aim to pass 1.4 million homes in the Netherlands and Flemish-speaking Belgium, through its network of affiliated cable companies. @Home Nederland was @Home's first non-US venture when it was formed in May last year. Last month the company announced it would attempt to break into the Japanese market in a joint venture with Jupiter Communications. |
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