[39022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SBC forcing new contract on ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Robertson)
Mon Jun 25 14:57:45 2001
Message-Id: <200106251846.f5PIkpN11862@roo.greatbasin.net>
To: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:40:34 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:46:51 -0700
From: Bruce Robertson <bruce@greatbasin.net>
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You're right, but what can I do? I will lose my customers if they are forced
to switch to PPPoE. So SBC wins either way.
As the article mentions, this will likely end up in a courtroom somewhere.
> At 11:23 AM -0700 6/25/01, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> >So the upshot is that I won't sign a contract that forces me to do something
> >impossible, and certainly against by business interests.
>
> ... so then your contract expires, and only SBC remains.
>
> This hurts SBC precisely how, again?
>
> Not faulting you, in fact I applaud your stance, but let's not harbor
> any delusions that your stance will do anything but benefit SBC. The
> more people who end their SBC contracts that way, the more DSL
> customers are suddenly beached looking for a quick reinstall,
> something you can bet SBC will be poised to provide.
>
> D
>
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