AOL In Talks With AT&T, MCI
By Steven Vonder Haar and Louis Trager, Inter@ctive Week
August 16, 1999 9:05 AM ET
America Online, seeking new ways to access broadband networks and sell long-distance services online, is negotiating with both AT&T and MCI WorldCom over a range of possible business combinations, according to industry executives familiar with the discussions.
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Interesting comments on the MCI Outage. Sounds pretty bad. Must be positive for someone.
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Cablevision Nixes @Home In L.I. Market
By Karen J. Bannan, Inter@ctive Week
August 16, 1999 9:04 AM ET
Cablevision Systems' Long Island, N.Y., customers won't be going @Home anytime soon.
According to sources familiar with the company's cable modem rollout, Cablevision has no plans to migrate its Optimum Online customers to the Excite@Home high-speed cable modem service. The sources cited Cablevision's continuing problems with deploying and managing the @Home service in Connecticut, where, according to company insiders, the modems either don't perform or respond sluggishly.
"It just doesn't work," said one senior-level source familiar with the @Home installation.
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