SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 9, 2001 DTI HOLDINGS, INC. (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter) Missouri 333-50049 43-1828147 (State or Other (Commission File (IRS Employer Jurisdiction of Number) Identification Number) Incorporation) 8112 Maryland Ave., 4th Floor, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 (Address of Principal Executive Office) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (314) 253-6600 Item 5. Other Events The Company recently reached an agreement with Adelphia Business Solutions (ABS) to amend a November 1999 IRU Agreement between the parties. Under the terms of the Amendment, all penalties accruing to ABS as a result of the Company's failure to deliver routes by the contractual due dates ceased as of December 31, 2000. In addition, the Amendment allows ABS to terminate four additional routes or portions thereof. However, the Amendment does not allow further route terminations if DTI delivers all remaining routes by September 30, 2001. The route cancellations will not require the repayment to ABS of any prepayments received by the Company for those cancelled routes. Those prepayments will be credited against amounts owed to the Company when the remaining routes are accepted by ABS. ABS will be allowed to defer all remaining route acceptances until January 2002, along with the payment of the remaining net approximately $8.5 million due to DTI. The amounts payable to DTI upon route delivery will accrue interest at 11% from the actual dates of delivery of the routes until their acceptance in January 2002, or their earlier acceptance at the option of ABS. SIGNATURE Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. DTI HOLDINGS, INC. Date: April 9, 2001 By: /s/Gary W. Douglass Interim President and CEO