Microsoft, Time Warner and U S West discuss high-speed Internet service

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Microsoft is negotiating with cable operator giants Time Warner and U S West to create a high-speed Internet access service, industry executives familiar with the talks said. The proposed service would deliver Internet features such as World Wide Web pages and e-mail over cable modems at speeds far higher than those available over standard telephone lines. It would compete with Tele-Communications-controlled (TCI) Home Corp., a public start-up company that claimed 26,000 customers at the end of Sep 1997. Microsoft has been discussing investment and alliances with cable operators as part of its strategy to establish its Windows CE OS and its WebTV hardware design as the foundation for set-top boxes needed for the delivery of digital services. The executive committee of TCI-controlled industry research group CableLabs, meanwhile, recommended that interactive services over cable deploy open Internet specifications rather than a specific set-top box technology.

Product development, Services, Internet, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Time Warner Inc., Cable television, U S WEST Inc., USW, TWX, Set-top boxes (Television), Cable television/data services, Cooperative agreement for product development, Alliances and partnerships, Internet access, Set-top boxes, Set-top internet box

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Microsoft may face battle over 'content': U.S. focuses on bid to become primary Web gateway

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The Justice Department may be considering whether to develop another antitrust case against Microsoft, this time in Internet information 'content.' The government already has issued civil subpoenas and interviewed with industry executives. Microsoft's role in Internet content is expected to to be addressed in Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that Chmn Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has scheduled for Mar 3, 1998. The software giant has plans to emerge as the principal World Wide Web gateway for entertainment, information and commerce. The Government is examining whether Microsoft has leveraged its Windows 95 OS and Web browser software influence to receive exclusive provisions from potential Internet partners that include media companies and computer manufacturers. Microsoft executives say their negotiations have not violated antitrust law.

Usage, Cases, Telecommunications regulations, Online services, Antitrust law, United States. Department of Justice, Online information services, Electronic commerce, E-commerce, Government communications regulation, Online information service, Antitrust Issue

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