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AT&T Restores Some Internet Service; @Home Reaches Pact with Other Partners.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2001
By Joelle Tessler, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 4--AT&T Broadband restored high-speed Internet connections for all of its 170,000 Bay Area customers Monday after its network provider, At Home, shut off service to the cable giant early Saturday in a dramatic fallout from At Home's troubled bankruptcy proceedings.
Meanwhile, At Home on Monday reached agreements with its biggest remaining cable partners to be paid at least $320 million over the next three months to maintain high-speed Internet access to those companies' customers while they develop their own internal networks.
At Home, which does business as Excite@Home, provides broadband access to 3.7 million North American customers who subscribe...
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