AT&T STATEMENT.Business Editors BASKING RIDGE, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 30, 2001 Judge Thomas E. Carlson of U.S. bankruptcy court bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. today canceled the Master Distribution Agreements between the At Home Corporation and the cable companies to which it provides high-speed Internet See broadband. service, including AT&T. AT&T has not been told whether or not the At Home Corporation intends to shut down its service. However, AT&T representatives are scheduled to meet with executives of At Home to discuss the matter. AT&T is prepared to take appropriate steps to protect service to its customers, including if necessary moving its customers to a new high-speed Internet network immediately. The company said that individual customers could be moved to the new network in one to 14 days, if necessary. The company will automatically issue credits to all customers who experience an interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. of service at the rate of two days free service for every day of interruption. The company noted that former MediaOne customers, who are served by the AT&T Broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). network are not affected by today's action. Nor are customers of AT&T Broadband's video or telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. services. |
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