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Deal with AT&T Halts Massachusetts Ballot Item on Cable Internet Access.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2000 by Howe, Peter J.
Jun. 28--A planned November ballot question that would require "open access" to high-speed cable Internet connections in Massachusetts -- expected to trigger a $10 million advertising blitz -- was dropped yesterday after proponents reached a compromise with AT&T, the measure's leading foe.
AT&T earlier this month took over MediaOne Group to become the state's dominant provider of high-speed residential Internet access over cable systems. Yesterday it agreed in principle to open its Bay State networks to providers such as America Online and Shore.Net by mid-2002.
In return, a group headed by Boston Net venture capitalist J. Christopher Grace agreed to abandon a proposed November initiative petition mandating open access across the state, which had been...
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