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I doubt that @home will cease to exist. They my go bankrupt but that doesn't mean that they are going to drop everyone. As for the ? about @home just using the existing cable system, that is only the "last mile" of the connection. Contrary to what some of you might think the internet is not free. @home had to build a network of fibre that there customers traffic travels on, you didn't really think that you could surf the world on the same cable's runnng in your house. . If they do cease to exist I guess your connection will depend on the cable company your with. Up here in Canada there are 3 main providers(25% of @home customers) and 1 company, shaw communications is almost done building there own network for their traffic as well as there own data centers to house all the hardware and Cogeco cable should have there similar setup finished by the end of this year or early 2002. The largest up here is Rogers cable systems and they own a big chunk of @home and have said that they don't have any plans to build there own network and data centers so there customers my experience some problems if @home does at some point cease to exist.
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