ter MCI and Sprint increased prices on many of their most popular calling plans, AT&T reimposed a Notes monthly charge of $3.95 on all its basic-rate customers. This time, the company sent postcards announcing the charge to all IO mil- lion customers affected and also told them about calling plans that could lower their costs. The public reaction was relatively muted. 8. Allan Sloan, "Can't Anyone Here Play This Game?" Newsweek, June I9, 2000; "Wrong Number," editorial in the Denver Post, June II, 2000; Cal Thomas, "AT&T Goes From Ma Bell to Call Girl," Los Angeles Times Syndicate, June 8, 2000. Chapter 11 I. Leslie Cauley, Rebecca Blumenstein, and Stephanie Mehta, "AT&T Makes $54 Billion Bid for MediaOne," The Wall Street Journal, April 23, 1999. Ken McGee was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on April 23, 1999, in a story entitled "CEO's Vision Is to Be Much More Than Ma Bell." Paul Farhi, "AT&T: Too Big Again?" The Washington Post, April 27, 1999. 2. Brendan Intendola, "AT&T CEO Turns Bargaining Table Into Round Table," Reuters Business Report, May 6, 1999. 3. All the stories appeared on October 5, following an October 4 story in the Wall Street Journal reporting on rumors that AT&T's consumer unit might be spun off. Chapter 12 I. From a motion filed by bondholders of AtHome Corporation in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California, San Fran- cisco Division, Case No. OI-32495-TC (Chapter II), October 2001. 2. Louis Lowenstein, "Corporate Governance and the Voice of the Paparazzi," Working Paper No. I3I, The Center for Law and Eco- nomic Studies, February 22, 1999. Chapter 13 I. Peter Elstrom, "Mike Armstrong's Strong Showing," Business- Week, January 25, 1999; Steve Rosenbush, "AT&T Can't Buy It's Way Out of This Mess," Business Week, September 4, 2000. 2. Leslie Cauley, "John Malone's Prescription for AT&T: New Track- ing Stock, Focus on Content," Wall Street Journal, July I2, 2000. Notes 3. Ibid. 4. When the TCI acquisition closed, Newsweek's Wall Street editor, Allan Sloan, had a lot of fun explai