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                                                                      EXHIBIT 31

CERTIFICATION OF CFO PURSUANT TO SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT RULES 13A-14 AND 15D-14
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, George E. Willett, President and Chief Financial Officer of High Speed Access
Corp., certify that:

    (1) I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of High Speed Access
        Corp. (the "Company");

    (2) Based on my knowledge, this Quarterly Report does not contain any untrue
        statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
        in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances
        under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to
        the period covered by this Quarterly Report;

    (3) Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
        information included in this Quarterly Report, fairly present in all
        material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
        cash flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in this
        Quarterly Report;

    (4) I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls
        and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and
        15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in
        Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the Company and have:

        (a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
            disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my
            supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
            Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to
            us by others within those entities, particularly during the period
            in which this Quarterly Report is being prepared;

        (b) designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused
            such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under
            my supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
            reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial
            statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
            accepted accounting principles;

        (c) evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and
            procedures and presented in this Quarterly Report our conclusions
            about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures,
            as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report based
            on such evaluation; and

        (d) disclosed in this Quarterly Report any change in the Company's
            internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the
            Company's most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected,
            or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal
            control over financial reporting, and

    (5) I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal
        control over financial reporting, to the Company's auditors and the
        Audit Committee of the Company's Board of Directors:

        (a) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design
            or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
            reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company's ability to
            record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

        (b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
            other employees who have a significant role in the Company's
            internal control over financial reporting.

Date:  August 7, 2003                      By /s/ George E. Willett
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                                           George E. Willett
                                           President and Chief Financial Officer

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