AT&T Broadband

AT&T Broadband LLC

Industry	Cable television
Fate	Purchased
Successor	Comcast
Founded	1999 as AT&T Digital Cable
Defunct	2002
Headquarters	Englewood, Colorado, U.S.
Parent	AT&T (1999-2002) Comcast (2002-present)

AT&T Broadband was AT&T's cable operations, which were composed of the assets of TCI and MediaOne, Prime Cable, as well as two Comcast cable systems (Sacramento, California and northern DeKalb County, Georgia) AT&T acquired later in a system swap. Formed in 1999 as AT&T Digital Cable, it was the largest provider of cable television services. Media and online services for AT&T Broadband customers were originally provided by either Road Runner or Excite@Home. In late 2000, AT&T Broadband acquired several Paragon Cable assets in Oregon and Texas during its merger with Time Warner Cable. AT&T spent over $105 billion to form the cable unit, agreed to sell to Comcast initially for $72 billion, but settled at $47.5 billion due to the declining market.

AT&T went through a corporate restructuring process in 2002, which called for AT&T Wireless, AT&T Business, AT&T Consumer, and AT&T Broadband all to become separate companies. Only AT&T Wireless was spun off (although repurchased later by AT&T), and AT&T Broadband was purchased by Comcast in November 2002.^[1]

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Spinoffs of American Telephone & Telegraph Company

First generation

1929	Graybar Electric Company

1956	Northern Electric (via Western Electric)

1975	Bell Canada

1984 Divestiture	Ameritech Bell Atlantic Bell Communications Research BellSouth NYNEX Pacific Telesis Southwestern Bell Corporation US West

1991–1993	Unix System Laboratories

1996	Lucent Technologies NCR

1997	AT&T Submarine Systems sold to Tyco International

2001	AT&T Wireless Services

2003	AT&T Broadband

Second generation spinoffs

Lucent Technologies	Advanced American Telephones (2000) Avaya (2000) QLT Consumer Lease Services (2000) Agere Systems (2002)

MediaOne Group (f/k/a US West)	U S WEST (1998)

NCR	Teradata (2007)

Pacific Telesis	AirTouch (1994)

Qwest	Dex Media (2002)

Regional Bells	Telcordia Technologies (1997)

SBC Communications / AT&T	R.H. Donnelley Publishing and Advertising of Illinois (2004) YP Holdings (2012) Southern New England Telephone (2014)

Verizon Communications	Hawaiian Telcom (2005) Idearc (2006) Northern New England Spinco (2008) New Communications Holdings (2010) Frontier California Frontier Florida Frontier Southwest (2014)

References

↑ "Comcast Completes AT&T Broadband Transaction". corporate.comcast.com. Comcast Corporation. 18 November 2002. Retrieved 2016-08-15.

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AT&T Broadband

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