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To: Bruce Cullen who wrote (6061)	8/13/1999 9:37:00 AM
From: Craig Jacobs	Respond to of 13157

AT&T Says No Deal On Tap With AOL By Steven Vonder Haar, Inter@ctive Week August 9, 1999 5:28 PM ET Peace is not quite yet at hand in the war over high-speed cable access. AT&T today issued a press release countering published reports indicating that it was deep in negotiations to open its cable systems to deliver online services offered by America Online. The story, in today's editions of The New York Times, reported that AT&T had been mulling plans to partner with AOL for high-speed services in a deal that would have negated Excite@Home's exclusive rights to deliver online services on AT&T owned wires. In a published statement today, AT&T acknowledged that its executives have met with AOL officials in the recent past, but added "there is no specific proposal currently under discussion between AT&T and AOL." AT&T also said it would honor provisions of its current agreement with Excite@Home, including those that give the company exclusive rights for delivering a packaged online service via the high-speed access lines offered on AT&T's cable television systems. The rights to distribute online services on high-speed cable wires has been a growing bone of contention among leading players in the interactive marketplace. While AT&T and Excite@Home have moved to leverage an exclusive relationship to build a high-speed online service, competitors such as AOL have launched lobbying efforts to open existing cable systems to outside competition. AT&T owns a 58 percent stake in Excite@Home and says it plans to pursue a long-term relationship with the online service. In its prepared statement today, though, AT&T said it will remain open to discussions with other online services and access providers for deals that could be made once its current alliance with Excite@Home expires.

To: Bruce Cullen who wrote (6061)	8/13/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: Craig Jacobs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

8/9/99 Interactive week has article titled "Excite@Home, Yahoo! discuss Cobranding" I cant find article on web, excerpts: Excite President George Bell : " no truth to the rumors about acquisition discussions." however he has acknowledged that his company has been in discussion with both yahoo and AOL about " geting on the start page of a very powerful broadband opportunity." And tha scenari, one in which Yahoo might be in discussion to buy placement on the desktop of Excite@Home's bradband service, makes more sense, analysts said. It would also make sense that Yahoo minght be in discussions with a network distributor, either a cable operator or a dial up Internet servecie provider, said Cynthia Brumfield, president of Broadband Intelligence. Such a deal would ensure that Yahoo , which makes the majority of its money by guaranteeing advertisers their messages will be viewed by a huge online audiance, would have the defauld home page advantage amoun users singing on to the service... Yahoo has the potential to partener with any one of the major media companies and create a new cobranded portal that they then might want to promote on the fron page of a cable operator home page. ...