Re: [PLUG] @home

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

This is really the crux of my question: what is "ISP service" if not "data 
transport"? What is going out of business, a "content provider", or an 
"Internet access provider"?

Art

At 08:49 AM 12/2/2001 -0500, Bill Patterson wrote:
> Art wrote:
> "It is also bizarre that the report is the bankruptcy is caused by the cable
>    franchisees not paying @home enough, but at the same time, it is reported
>    that @home is a "partnership" of (i.e. owned by) the cable company
>    franchisees???"
>
> Check out
> http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/gtevatt/Default.htm
> which refers to an anti-trust case in which it is said that "GTE's Internet
> subsidiaries sue AT&T's cable subsidiary, TCI, as well as cable company
> Comcast, and ISP, At Home, alleging that bundling
> high speed cable data transport with ISP service is a violation of Sherman
> Antitrust Act."


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