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Article: Industry Analysts Say AT&T Wouldn't Be Missed By Cable Industry.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 23, 2001
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By Kris Hudson, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 23--The cable industry won't miss AT&T Corp. if Ma Bell sells its Arapahoe County-based cable division.
Industry observers and former AT&T Broadband employees see Ma Bell's ill-fated foray into the cable business as one characterized by misguided product goals, conflict with the industry's political objectives, a purge of top talent and general arrogance.
"It's a totally different world, and the telephone culture didn't know and still doesn't know how to deal with it," said Steve Effros, a lawyer and consultant to the cable industry and former president of the Cable ...