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Article: AT&T Retreats from Modem-Fee Stance.(Brief Article)
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- Multichannel News
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- February 19, 2001
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Facing uniform regulatory opposition to its plan to cease franchise-fee payments for Internet-access revenue, AT&T Broadband appears to have backed away from that idea.
The operator sent letters to cities in California, Oregon and Washington that assert its belief that "federal law does not allow the voluntary payment of franchise fees" on modem service.
In those letters, MSO officials said the change in fee-payment policy would go into effect last Thursday (Feb. 15). But AT&T officials softened their hard line as the deadline day approached.
In letters obtained by Multi-channel News, that date was italicized to draw extra attention. But AT&T ...