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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (7304)	6/17/2000 1:32:00 AM
From: Geof Hollingsworth	Respond to of 12823

Would you advise me to sign up for their service? I am interested, but torn. The ISP service is fine when it works, but it is often unavailable. Usually the outages disappear as mysteriously as they appear-get home from work, no Internet, get up in the morning and it is working. Last week it didn't self-heal, and after finally getting through to a CSR and having the diagnostics run, they determined they would have to send someone out. First available service appointment was in 8 days ....! They did show up on the appointed day and after they left the system was working again. Not having Internet access for a week is an annoyance, but I can live with it (or more accurately, without it, I guess). Not having phone service for a week would be grounds for divorce, I expect. How do I get comfortable that, as they promise, their phone system will be much more reliable than their ISP? And if it is more reliable, why don't they use it for their Internet delivery as well....?

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (7304)	6/21/2000 12:13:00 PM
From: Shawn Fisher	Respond to of 12823

I'm trying to determine the size of the markets and AT&T's share of those individual market. Do you know what the final homes passed numbers are post MediaOne close for each large Market? Chicago - 1.3m (?) San Francisco Denver Dallas Hartford Pittsburgh Salt Lake City Seattle

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (7304)	7/14/2000 1:51:32 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: ATT Cable Telephony and Cable Modem 2000 Goals and Stats Thread- Here's an interesting story about ATT's apparent success in accomplishing their goals for this year. Looks like it's going well. Starting from almost nothing last year to signing up 400,000 cable telephony customers will impressive beginning. Then it sounds as if, like others, ATT is hurt on the cable modem deployments due to cable modem shortage. I believe this is what others have been saying too, so IMVHO, it's not just an excuse. Finally I was very surprised to see that ATT has 2,200,000 digital cable TV subs hooked up! From what I've been reading, I was under the impression there were only 3,000,000 digital cable TV subs worldwide(not including DBS). I'm thinking now that the 3 million figure must be on the low side. -MikeM(From Florida) *************************** Somers Sees 400,000 Phone Subs July 13, 2000 Newport, R.I. -- Two weeks before AT&T Corp. is set to announce second-quarter results, AT&T Broadband president and CEO Dan Somers said Tuesday that his division will easily meet key penetration targets, including reaching 400,000 telephony customers by year-end. "I said 400,000 to 500,000 [telephony subscribers], and we are on course this week to do that. I know where I am today, and I know how many trucks I roll a day. I can't sell enough," Somers told reporters after a speech to the New England Cable Television Association show here. AT&T Broadband's phone penetration is being closely watched by Wall Street as evidence that the company can execute AT&T chairman C. Michael Armstrong's vision of AT&T as a provider of voice, data and video programming to consumers. Somers said cable-modem subscribers should reach 700,000 by year-end, but signing up customers has been hurt by a lack of modems. Digital-cable-television subscribers just crossed the 2.2 million mark, he added. Those totals, he said, should be a warning to those who say Armstrong's huge investments in cable are not paying off**. "We are hitting the numbers, and we will hit the numbers this year," Somers said. Somers' comments came on a day when AT&T's stock got battered on Wall Street, losing slightly more than $1 to close just below $32 per share -- well off its 52-week high of $61. "Those who are shareholders: Just relax, step back, it will get better. Trust me," Somers said.