AT&T WorldNet
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att.net is a web portal
Web portal
A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....

 and Internet service provider
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

 from AT&T, Inc..

AT&T

ATT.NET is a consumer web portal provided by AT&T, Inc.  ATT.NET has customizable web-based content including news, sports, weather, entertainment, email, applications, products and services.

Email services for att.net customers had been provided by Maillennium, a system developed by AT&T Labs, but are now based on the Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail is a web mail service provided by Yahoo!. It was inaugurated in 1997, and, according to comScore, Yahoo! Mail was the second largest web-based email service with 273.1 million users as of November 2010....

 webmail platform and are branded as "powered by Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

." It includes the following domains:
  • @ameritech
    Ameritech
    AT&T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation , was a U.S. telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture. Ameritech was one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies that was created following the breakup of the Bell System...

    .net
  • @att
    American Telephone & Telegraph
    AT&T Corp., originally American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies. AT&T is the oldest telecommunications company...

    .net
  • @bellsouth
    BellSouth
    BellSouth Corporation is an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S...

    .net
  • @flash.net
  • @nvbell
    Nevada Bell
    Nevada Bell Telephone Company, originally Bell Telephone Company of Nevada, was the Bell System's telephone provider in Nevada. It only provides telephone services to 30% of the state, not including Las Vegas, where service is provided by CenturyLink...

    .net
  • @pacbell
    Pacific Bell
    The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was the name of the Bell System's telephone operations in California. It gained in size by acquiring smaller telephone companies along the Pacific coast, such as Sunset Telephone & Telegraph in 1917...

    .net
  • @prodigy.net
  • @sbcglobal.net
  • @snet.net
  • @swbell
    Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell Telephone Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T. It does business as AT&T Southwest and other d/b/a names in its operating region.The company is currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas at One AT&T Plaza.-History:...

    .net
  • @wans.net

Conversion to Web Portal

AT&T created att.net as a web portal in 1995 in support of AT&T Worldnet service, a dial-up Internet access offering. Following the merger of AT&T and SBC, and the subsequent acquisition of BellSouth, the purpose of the att.net portal widened—it was made to serve as the portal not only for Worldnet customers, but also for customers of BellSouth Dial and BellSouth DSL, as well as for all AT&T ISP customers in the SBC territory who had not elected to use the SBC/Yahoo! portal. In an effort to make the most of the relationship with Yahoo! and to simplify its offerings, AT&T determined that it would close the legacy, internally-developed portal at att.net. A plan was developed for all AT&T ISP customers to be provisioned with AT&T-branded accounts on the Yahoo! portal and with Yahoo! premium-level e-mail accounts, and that the web address for this unified portal would be www.att.net. AT&T began migrating customers off the old Worldnet/att.net portal and on to the Powered by Yahoo! portal in December 2008, and the final migrations are scheduled to be completed in May 2010.

Conversion to AT&T Internet Services

On Jan 30, 2008 AT&T announced that it would end a longtime partnership with Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 for my.att.net and instead would begin to offer services provided by Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 beginning in the second quarter of 2008 for all AT&T Internet Services customers. AT&T internet customers in the legacy SBC region of AT&T were already on the AT&T Yahoo! service. On April 2, 2008 , the new att.net powered by Yahoo! was launched.

In 2010, AT&T announced the migration all former Worldnet-based accounts to AT&T Dial, AT&T High Speed Internet Service, or a standalone portal/e-mail service. Starting April 5, 2010, WorldNet accounts, that were not migrated, began being suspended, a process which was expected to take 10 days. By April 15, 2010, all Worldnet accounts that had not migrated were suspended.

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