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Article: Start-up takes aim at Ameritech, Time Warner Digital Access looks to provide high-speed Web, cable services to city
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2000
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A suburban Philadelphia investment group is targeting four cities -
- including Milwaukee -- for a start-up venture that would provide
telephone, high-speed Internet and cable services -- perhaps by the
end of the year.
Digital Access Inc. wants to build its own fiber-optic cable
system in the metropolitan area and, in so doing, challenge
traditional providers such as Ameritech and Time Warner on their home
turf.
Venture capitalist Paul S. Bachow, chairman of Digital Access,
said his company plans to spend $1.3 billion to build high-speed
networks to serve cities over the next 12 to 18 months that have not
yet been targeted by a second cable provider.
The company says its network ...