TCI, then agreed to buy MediaOne, and finally agreed to sell the MediaOne stake to Microsoft.

ECONOMIST: British cable industry

Also in June, Oxygen struck a deal with MediaOne for another 1.3 million subscribers.

FORBES: Follow through

Microsoft will also get MediaOne's 29.9% stake in Telewest, strengthening its interest in the British cable industry.

ECONOMIST: AT&T and MediaOne

Revenues from cable clients dropped 4% last year as some, notably MediaOne, were bought out and literally disappeared.

FORBES: The Track Less Taken

MediaOne, together with Cable and Wireless, also put up for sale One2One, Britain's smallest mobile-phone company, which they jointly own.

ECONOMIST: Business this week | The

Roadrunner is owned mainly by MediaOne and Time Warner.

ECONOMIST: The battle for the last mile