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To: FIRENZA who wrote (11376)	6/16/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: E. Graphs	Respond to of 29970

Speaking of job growth in Portland, Oregon. dailynews.yahoo.com >>Officials acknowledged the irony of the break: while most communities welcome as many new jobs as they can attract, prosperous Washington County west of Portland can be seen as penalizing job growth.<<

To: FIRENZA who wrote (11376)	6/16/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 29970

AT&T Set To File Expedited Appeal On Portland Open Cable By Mark Wigfield WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--AT&T Corp. (T) has appealed a lower court ruling that upheld a potentially precedent-setting open cable ordinance adopted by Portland, Ore. The long distance giant has asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco for an expedited hearing of the case. AT&T's appeal was expected. At issue is an ordinance adopted by Portland and the surrounding Multnomah County requiring AT&T to give Internet service providers, or ISPs, open access to the cable system AT&T acquired by merging with the former Telecommunications Inc. AT&T plans to provide high-speed Internet, or broadband services, as well as telephone service over the cable. But the company's plans to make subscribers buy Internet service through the company's At Home Corp. (ATHM) and pay additional fees for other ISPs like America Online Inc. (AOL) was anticompetitive, the Oregon cable authorities found. But AT&T says Portland exceeded its authorities granted under the cable act. "Federal law could not be clearer," said AT&T general counsel Jim Cicconi. "By requiring that AT&T unbundle its cable network, the Portland ordinance does exactly what federal law forbids." AT&T has scheduled a 4 p.m. EDT news conference to discuss its appeal.