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AT&T, Comcast Link Cable, Internet Service Illegally, Suit Charges.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1999 by Horn, Patricia
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 26 -- The battle for control of Internet access over cable-television networks reached the federal courts yesterday.
Local phone company GTE Corp. filed an antitrust lawsuit in Pittsburgh against Comcast Corp., AT&T, and their affiliated Internet service provider, Excite@Home.
The lawsuit by the Dallas-based phone giant charges the companies with illegally exploiting their economic power over high-speed Internet service by forcing consumers to buy the cable companies' exclusive Internet service provider, Excite@Home, in order to get their high-speed Internet service. Both companies own a stake in Excite@Home.
That practice, says the complaint, is an unlawful "tying" arrangement.
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