Editing Full Service Network (section)

== History ==
The FSN's first households were plugged-in in December 1994 in Orlando, Florida.

According to the [[Hong Kong University of Science and Technology]], the city of Orlando was chosen because of its worry-free weather, the fact that it was Time Warner Cable's second largest division and because it already featured fiber-optic network installations (which would reduce implementation costs.) The city's high growth demographics, with large percentages of households with children, complemented the decision.<ref name="hk">[http://www.ust.hk/~webiway/content/USA/Trial/fsn.html Full Service Network in Orlando Florida] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031210121912/http://www.ust.hk/~webiway/content/USA/Trial/fsn.html|date=December 10, 2003}}, from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.</ref>

The specific test area was suburban Orlando, including southwest Seminole County and parts of Orange County (Wekiva, Sweetwater, Lake Brantley, and Spring Lake Hills).<ref name="hk" />

Available interactive services were added to the network bit by bit. They included on-demand games, sports and movies, food ordering, and also local information, events and shopping opportunities through GOtv, an interactive entertainment guide.

GOtv worked in association with other media, such as [[The Orlando Sentinel]], in compiling reviews and other information on restaurants, their menus, prices, location and hours.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Full Service Network and The Orlando Sentinel add interactive dinig guide to GOtv'' |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Full+Service+Network+and+The+Orlando+Sentinel+add+interactive+dining...-a018299720 |publisher=Business Wire (The Free Library)}}</ref>

In 1996, the services of FSN were made available for the general public to check out at [[Walt Disney World]]'s [[Epcot Center]] [[Innoventions (Epcot)|Innoventions]] expo, where "Five stations are available for guests to interact with the television through the network's Carousel(tm) navigator."<ref name="epcot">{{cite web |title=''Time Warner Cable's Full Service Network connects live to Innoventions'' |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/media-telecommunications/telecommunications/7218809-1.html |publisher=Business Wire (AllBusiness.com)}}</ref>

Michael Colglazier, General Manager of [[Innoventions (Epcot)|Innoventions]], qualified the technology as life changing, and was very pleased to offer the Disney's guests a chance to experience it.<ref name="epcot" />

The [[Orlando Business Journal]] announced in 1997 the closing of the Full Service Network. The article listed as the reason [[Time Warner]]'s shifting emphasis toward an evolved form of the technology being developed by outside companies under contract with Time Warner Cable.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 30, 1997 |title=''Time Warner will close its Full Service Network'' |url=http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/1997/04/28/daily7.html |publisher=Orlando Business Journal}}</ref>

The company had 156 employees at the time at its main office in Maitland.