[44545] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Nov 30 20:29:30 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:25:39 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: James Smith <jsmith@PRESIDIO.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:14:48PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, James Smith wrote:
> > Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on
> > the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government
> > sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
>
> The FCC Chairman Michael Powell did write to the Judge overseeing
> the bankruptcy proceedings.
(Excerpt from)
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/011130/n30289284_2.html
"Separately, Powell said the FCC would soon launch a notice of proposed
rulemaking to examine the state of broadband with the goal of ending the
government's practice of ``lurching and reacting'' to advances in the
high-speed Internet access industry."
Some hints that FCC may want to regulate in the case of
bankruptcy providers of [internet] broadband services. This would
possibly help as far as having people be required to get
sufficent warning that their service is going to be terminated
(such as 90+ days for those that don't pay attention to these things)
and provide in this case companys like at&t bb, charter, comcast,
cox, mediaone, and any other provider still (be it partially or in whole)
using @home for their overall transit to arrange for a new
provider of internet connectivity. (as well as the home user to
persue other services and have a good way to get out of their contracts
possibly [if they are not month-to-month]).
- Jared
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