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Excite@Home & Comcast/AT&T Reach Agreement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-it-forward dept.

whee writes: "Through a $160 million deal, it looks like Comcast users will have Excite@Home supplied access for at least more three months (press release). Comcast anticipates moving existing customers over to a new Comcast-owned and managed network before the new contract expires." As well, it appears that the folks who were using AT&T's brand of Excite@Home are back online - as this press release said. T: CNET also has a story on the 3-way deal.

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  1. Do you guys READ anything before posting updates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AT+T was NOT part of this deal. AT+T has not made a deal with @Home. Comcast has NOT bought AT+Ts cable buisness (yet). AT+T IS moving customers to their own network infrastructure. AT+T had moved 10% shortly after the plug got pulled. AT+T has NOW moved 40%. They plan to move the rest by Friday. Sheesh.

    READING IS FUNDAMENTAL. Try it sometime.

  2. Oh REALLLY? by sting3r · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm in the same boat as you - formerly ATT@home, now attbi.com. My service did not work when I plugged in the broadband router I had been using for the past six months, but it worked just fine when I removed the router. I figured that maybe AT&T was filtering known router MAC addresses on their new network (as some ISPs have been known to do), but then I changed the MAC address on the router and it still didn't work. Then I tried it on my buddy's DSL connection and it worked perfectly.

    Something suspicious is definitely going on here. I think AT&T found a new way of blocking routers on their new network. Has anyone else figured out how they are doing this and how to fix it?

    -sting3r

  3. Re:dyslexia anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    not to be rude, but i think this should be said -

    i have dyslexia, and it not what people think it is. contrary to popular belief, it is not seeing words out of order, and not even (exactly) seeing words written backwards (i.e. was = saw). dyslexia is the inability (or resistence) of the mind to break a word into its components (syllables). this means that text is read pictorially/graphically, instead of phoenetically (which leads to the was = saw stuff).

    its pretty useful though b/c i think it helps me remember symbol names in long math proofs and code :-)

  4. Re:Do you guys READ anything before posting update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yep... AT&T didn't want to pay them $100million just to get 50% of thier customers connected for 1 week... and i wouldnt either..

    Cox is the other MSO cable co. in that "3-way deal", they paid excite (along with comcast) 160million for the next 3 months... after those 3 months, they'll have all thier customers up and running on thier own cox run network.
    personally I can't wait...

    interesting note though:
    $160 million over 3 months is $53 mil a month, $1.7mil a day..

    last i heard, cox and comcast has a little under a million @home customers each.. (call it a mil for easy calc's) that's $53+ per subscriber, per month.. and they only charge $35-49 per month??? the MSO's are getting BONED in this deal... but excite had thier nuts in a sling. they had to go along with it...

    but it's good to see those companies who would rather lose some money and actually watch out for thier subscribers than to take the easy way out.