According to the shareholders' complaint, AT&T's network was actually the result of much more than a year's worth of effort, in which the company systematically extracted critical proprietary networking information from Excite@Home with the aim of constructing its own competing network. Siphoning out knowledge? According to last week?s amended complaint, AT&T concealed a plan to raid Excite@Home technology under the auspices of an "open access" experiment aimed at letting rival ISPs offer service over its cable network. A network designer working on the so-called Steamboat Project had warned Excite@Home management in July 2000 that AT&T was using the trial "as a means to take and convert Excite@Home's proprietary technology and that Steamboat posed a direct threat to Excite@Home's business.".

The complaint cites specific instances, beginning in January 2001, in which AT&T personnel asked for and copied key strongfit designers series case for apple iphone 7 plus and 8 plus - marble geometry 018 Excite@Home software and data, including provisioning databases and engineering and planning documents, Some of these efforts met with protests by Excite@Home employees, which were ultimately overridden, the shareholders allege, By spring and early summer, well before the service providers had reached the early throes of bankruptcy, AT&T was already rerouting some Excite@Home traffic through AT&T servers, a change that made the ultimate transition of customers to AT&T's network a simpler task, the shareholders said..

Much of this later action happened under the guidance of Hossein Eslambolchi, installed by AT&T in February 2001 as Excite@Home's "interim vice president of broadband services" and tasked with strengthening a network that was prone to failure. Eslambolchi's role had previously been questioned by critics who charged he helped build AT&T's own network with knowledge gleaned from Excite@Home. "Once we got in and started to investigate, we found there was corroboration for virtually every part of the speculation" about AT&T's role in Excite@Home's collapse, said Rick Rayle, a Lovell & Stewart lawyer serving as the chief investigative attorney for the shareholders' group.

However, AT&T and some Excite@Home insiders have previously said Eslambolchi's work simply brought badly needed stability to a shaky network, The experienced AT&T engineer--now the head of AT&T Labs--had no need to tap Excite@Home for networking knowledge, AT&T insiders have previously said, Shareholders also alleged, based on strongfit designers series case for apple iphone 7 plus and 8 plus - marble geometry 018 interviews with former CEO Hart, that Excite@Home's financial strength had been badly overstated in the final months before bankruptcy, The complaint cites Hart as saying that subscriber and revenue growth projections--largely those made by AT&T--were inflated by as much as 30 percent over what the company could justify internally..

Shareholders suing AT&T and former company directors filed an amended complaint in New York federal court last Thursday, with new details of alleged wrongdoing based largely on interviews with former Excite@Home employees, including ex-CEO Patti Hart. The amended complaint claims that top AT&T executives engineered a plan to steal key intellectual property that was used to develop a competing broadband network. According to the complaint, AT&T created its own cable Internet experiments called the "Steamboat Project" as early as February 2000, and by the next month, the company "had a plan to copy and convert Excite@Home's technology.".