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Discount Store News, Feb 22, 1999
AT&T and Time Warner unveiled a major partnership of their own Feb. 1. The two announced a joint venture that will offer AT&T-branded cable telephony service to residential and small business accounts via Time Warner's existing cable TV systems, currently available in 33 states. The companies will test the program in as-yet undisclosed test markets in 1999 and roll out the program in 2000.
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