Fwd: Affiliation Internet may also underwrite Fiber to the Home

[Gene Hastings <hastings@info-ren.org>]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:19:07 -0500 (EST)
From: CAnet-3-NEWS@canarie.ca
Subject: Affiliation Internet may also underwrite Fiber to the Home

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[This concept of Ford affiliation Internet program for its employees is also
being extended by some companies to take Fiber to the Home.  AT&T and TCI
have recently established separate business divisions to build fiber
networks for municipalities and large corporate clients. Corporations
purchase a percentage of a fiber build so that employees can have direct
high speed connections to the head office. Tektronix in Oregon is one
example of a company that has undertaken such an arrangement with TCI.  In
addition to purchasing a managed dark fiber service from TCI to connect up a
variety of labs and offices, additional fiber and cable modem services were
acquired for employee connections.  - BSA]

Weighing the Value of Ford PC's

At a time when the traditional bonds between employees and
companies are loosening and a growing share of the economy's
work is done by freelance, part-time and temporary workers,
Ford took a giant step in the other direction when it
announced that it would offer each of its 350,000 employees
a computer, printer and unlimited Internet access for $5 a
month. Ô 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/sunday/021300biz-ford.html



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Bill St. Arnaud
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CANARIE
bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca
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