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Dan Gillmor. ""At Home has kept service operating for other cable companies. It's only AT&T, which has tried to strong-arm a deal to buy the At Home assets for pennies on the dollar, that is being treated this way.""
There is some divine retribution going on here. The bulk of AT&T's cable assets are from TCI. This is a company that was well known from shutting off cable in towns that didn't cooperate or pulling channels from media companies that didn't buckle under. This time, the old TCI brass (now working at AT&T) ran into a group of people (At Home's creditors) that shut them down.
My cable company is AT&T no-band (they reneged on promises to roll-out broadband service last year). It would be great to see this company put into enough financial distress that it needs to find a buyer like AOL. One of the biggest counterweights to a Microsoft world is to let AOL buy AT&T cable. That way, they would have cable access to ~40% (~60% of homes with computers) of American homes -- which is enough to ensure that Microsoft doesn't get a free ride in it quest to dominate broadband services.
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