Dec 5, 2001 | broadband, business
The game of chicken poker is over and the loser is: everybody. AT&T drove Excite@Home into bankruptcy, hoping to pick up its assets for $300 million. The bondholders objected and said the assets were worth $1 billion. The bankruptcy court gave Excite permission to...
Nov 29, 2001 | broadband, business
The December 10 issue of Forbes magazine presents an interesting theory to explain how Excite@Home wound up in its current embarrassing predicament. “A new conspiracy theory alleges that AT&T, despite controlling 23% of @Home’s common shares and 74% of...
Nov 27, 2001 | broadband, business
Early this year Northpoint shut off DSL service to 100,000 customers with only a few days notice. It caused such a flap that I thought nothing like it would ever happen again. Guess what? Excite@Home says service might be shut off on Friday to 4.1 million cable...
Oct 7, 2001 | broadband, business
XO Communications is struggling to survive. Layoffs, salary freeze, reduced advertising – all the signs of yet another telecommunications company on the ropes. Here’s an article with more details.
