AT&T BIS and Excite@Home Partnering for Digital Delivery - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, August 23, 1999

AT&T Broadband & Internet Services (AT&T BIS) Tuesday announced plans to use Excite@Home's infrastructure and technology in the rollout of the AT&T digital television platform. Drawing from Excite@Home's experience with broadband services to the PC, AT&T will also explore the use of the Excite@Home backbone and data centers in support of the interactive television services being developed and managed by AT&T BIS's Interactive Offerings Group.

AT&T BIS selected Excite@Home as one of its set top software developers over a year ago. Since then, the two companies have successfully collaborated on software design and system implementation and recently demonstrated the AT&T BIS interactive TV platform on the General Instrument DCT 5000.

"Excite@Home's experience with PC broadband delivery makes them a natural partner for the continued development of our interactive TV platform," said Laurie Priddy, President of AT&T BIS's Interactive Offerings Group. "Using the powerful Excite@Home infrastructure to distribute interactive services will get us to a larger number of markets more quickly."

"Excite@Home has developed important core technologies for interactive digital television that are designed to implement standard Web API's in cooperation with digital settop operating systems and hardware suppliers, as selected by our cable partners. We are pleased that AT&T BIS has selected this technology for their planned digital television rollout," said Thomas Jermoluk, Chairman and CEO of Excite@Home.

"The Interactive Offerings Group will be engaging a variety of organizations to develop a rich content portfolio for our customers," said Leo J. Hindery, Jr., President and CEO of AT&T BIS. "We consider Excite@Home a strong contender for providing non-exclusive content to AT&T Interactive Offerings. Their demonstrated leadership in broadband content development makes them an outstanding potential resource for our company."

AT&T Broadband & Internet Services is one of the nation's leading providers of video and broadband data services. Formerly known as Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) prior to the Company's recent merger with AT&T, AT&T Broadband & Internet Services is a business unit of AT&T that provides cable television entertainment and information programming services to more than 10 million customers across the country. The Company also provides a host of advanced services through AT&T Digital Cable offerings and its high-speed, content-enriched cable Internet service AT&T@Home, and is actively developing competitive local cable telephone services. AT&T Broadband & Internet Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T), the world's leader in telecommunications services and technology.