EarthLink Gets Cable Access.Under pressure from government regulators, merger partners America Online See AOL. Inc. and Time Warner Inc. said they have cut a deal with EarthLink Network Inc. -- AOL's chief rival -- to deliver high-speed Internet See broadband. access across Time Warner's cable wires. The contract, set to take effect next year, is considered pivotal to winning government approval for the AOL-Time Warner deal. The agreement also could serve as a model for other cable networks in leasing their wires to unaffiliated Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the companies. Federal Trade Commission officials are expected to review the terms of the EarthLink contract and announce a decision on the merger by Dec. 11, extending the previously set Nov. 30 deadline. AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. and Time Warner officials now say they might not complete the deal until January, slightly longer than expected and a year after it was first announced. |
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