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To: E. Davies who wrote (18492)1/6/2000 8:14:00 PM
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What does new Excite@Home service mean for AT&T?
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 6, 2000, 12:00 p.m. PT
Excite@Home's launch of a free Net access service this morning puts AT&T in a bit of an Internet pickle.

On the one hand, the portal and Net access provider--which boasts AT&T as its biggest shareholder--needs to offer free Net access to compete with similar strategies from Yahoo and AltaVista. But the service now competes directly with AT&T's dial-up WorldNet offering, one of the largest Internet service providers (ISP) on the Net.

AT&T did sign off on the deal, and the companies say there is no direct conflict. But Ma Bell is far from enthusiastic.
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