Common use of BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Clause in Contracts

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. This Agreement is being made and entered into with reference to the following: (a) Customer is an interactive service provider that desires to purchase (i) fully managed, end-to-end dial-up access services, and (ii) certain broadband backhaul services. (b) Customer and Vendor previously contracted for Vendor to provide certain dial-up access services in that certain BBN-AOL Dial-Up Network Services Agreement dated September 23, 1996, as amended by (i) that certain BBN-AOL Dial-Up Network Services Agreement Amendment 1, dated ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇, ▇▇▇▇, (▇▇) that certain BBN-AOL Dial-Up Network Services Agreement Amendment 2, dated September 29, 1997, (iii) that certain BBN-AOL Dial-Up Network Services Agreement Amendment 3, dated January 29, 1998, (iv) that certain BBN-AOL Dial-Up Network Services Agreement Amendment 4, dated February 11, 1998, (v) that certain BBN-AOL Dial-Up Network Services Agreement Amendment 5, dated June 30, 1998 and (vi) that certain BBN-AOL Dial-Up Network Services Agreement Amendment 6, dated July 28, 1999 (such agreement as amended, the "Original Agreement").