AT&T Ends Bid To Buy @Home Assets

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday December 4, 2001 @11:13AM from the ending-it-all dept.

thumbtack writes: "In the neverending story of the @home saga it's being reported (on the Excite Portal which is not going under) that AT&T has broken off their bid to purchase Excite@home assets. They cite a number of significant contractual breaches and other violations by the bankrupt broadband Internet access company. In another related story Comcast and Cox say they have inked separate $160 million dollar deals to continued service while they develop their own networks. AT&T say that as of Tuesday morning they have moved 500,000 of their subscribers over to their network."

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This wouldn't have happened. . . by "Zow" · 2001-12-04 11:43 · Score: 1, Offtopic

This wouldn't have happened if people didn't Dump broadband and dug out their modems. Sorry, just occured to me and I couldn't resist. If you didn't read the comments with the story, now would be a good time (it's worth a chuckle).

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Re:It only HURTS the consumer... by yomegaman · 2001-12-04 12:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

From your atrocious spelling and poor arithmetic I'm guessing you're a student at Iowa State. Am I right?

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