 The company expanded rapidly and by 1994 it had 1.4 million subscribers.In 1993, 30% of the company was purchased by BCI Telecom Holdings, which maintained partial ownership of the cable firm until May 1998, when Comcast announced it would be buying BCI's 37% portion of the cable giant.Around September 1999, Comcast announced that it had started to buy up the company's stock.