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Home Is Where The Network Is

Parks Associates found that two-thirds of the 10,500 Internet households that were surveyed created a network to share an Internet connection....

"Current home network users — consumers who already have data networks for PC connectivity — will constitute a significant portion of the early market for multimedia networks," commented Tricia Parks, president of Parks Associates.

From the article "Home Is Where The Network Is," by Robyn Greenspan.

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