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@Home Network Unveils New Look For Its High-Speed Consumer Service


Going Above & Beyond High-Speed To Offer Compelling User Experience


REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 10, 1997 - @Home is changing the way consumers view and use the Internet by transforming the traditional Internet experience into one that is unique in style, service and content. Today, the @Home service revealed its new design and enhanced interface, allowing for a new depth of content and functionality that takes advantage of its superior speed which is up to hundreds of times faster than traditional dial-up services. @Home also announced new product features that allow subscribers to have up to 3 user accounts, each with its own email address and access to their @Home email from anywhere on the Internet through NetMail. In addition, the new interface provides @Home users with vibrant multimedia content, including high quality audio and video, creating a highly interactive environment not possible with conventional Internet services.

With this enhanced service and elegant interface, @Home users will have the Internet in the palm of their hands, enabling them to quickly and easily access any information on the Web that they want when they want it. Users can gather information, accomplish daily tasks online, enjoy custom applications such as listening to music or watching video clips, check up-to-date news feeds and create personalized web pages.

"Beyond high-speed Internet access, @Home leverages its broadband network to create a truly interactive, multimedia experience for users that goes beyond what the Web has to offer," said Richard Gingras, vice president of programming and editor-in-chief of Home Network. "We develop content that takes maximum advantage of @Home's high-speed environment and put it in the hands of our users. People just can't get that anywhere else."


New Design Further Supports Ease-Of-Use and Reliability


The redesign of the @Home service makes the Internet more applicable to everyday life. @Home subscribers can use their PC to get information and entertainment faster and easier than ever before. For example, the How Do I section, that is always one click away, provides users with quick, easy solutions to a variety of daily tasks ranging from making plane reservations to checking movie schedules. In addition, @Home's "always on" connection provides users with instant access to check stock prices, sports scores or traffic updates throughout the day.

@Home also is taking the search process to a higher level, aggregating the best resources and top search engines on the Web including Yahoo!, Excite & Infoseek, and putting them in one place. @Home's editorial staff combs the Web, takes the best of what they find and puts it right at users' fingertips. Editors search constantly for the most useful, entertaining Web content, organize it into appropriate categories, and deliver it daily to users' desktops. @Home offers subscribers a more simplified approach to navigating the Web through the service's "Channels." By grouping content into categories such as Finance, Games, Just Kids, Lifestyle, News, Pop Arts, Shopping, Sports, Technology and Chat, @Home puts the best of the Internet into context for users, enabling them to quickly locate and access information on the topics that interest them.


Compelling Multimedia Experience


@Home delivers comprehensive news and information from respected sources that can only be experienced in a broadband environment. The new interface of the service will enable @Home to promote a broader array of content to its subscribers. @Home currently brings "always on" audio content directly to user's desktops through the TuneIn feature, providing near CD-quality music and high fidelity technology news and sports/talk news. @Home's high-bandwidth service enables users to perform functions such as listening to audio content while browsing the Web; a task made difficult using a 28.8 modem connection. Because of @Home's broadband capabilities the redesign of the service incorporates a news video-on-demand page which lets users choose from many high quality CNN video clips covering breaking news stories on various topics. The news video-on-demand service will be available by the end of the year. Also leveraging @Home's incredible speed, users can experience low-latency, interactive network gaming; and they can quickly download and purchase software.

Based in Redwood City, California, @Home Network (NASDAQ: ATHM) distributes high-speed interactive services to residences and businesses using its own network architecture and a variety of transport options including the cable industry's hybrid-fiber coaxial infrastructure. The cable connection provides users significant increases in speed over conventional Internet services. Leveraging the "always on" attributes of cable, @Home allows for unique multimedia applications that go beyond current Web experiences. Individuals seeking additional information about availability and subscription can refer to the @Home Network Web site (http://www.home.net). Since its founding in May 1995, @Home Network has reached affiliate agreements with eight leading cable companies in North America, including Tele-Communications Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp., Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications, InterMedia Partners, Marcus Cable, Rogers Cablesystems Limited, and Shaw Communications.

     
 

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@Home Network, @Home and the @ logo are trademarks of @Home Network and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brands and products are trademarks of their respective companies.

This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include statements related to the introduction and user acceptance of new and updated products and services. Actual results may differ materially. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in @Home's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In particular, see "Factors That May Affect Future Results" in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1997. @Home assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this press release.
     
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