[44571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Hayden)
Sun Dec 2 14:14:05 2001
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 13:22:37 -0600 (CST)
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@geek.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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AT&T couldn't move people off of @home because there was still a valid
contract in place, until Excite broke it and turned off service.
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> > I've had no problems, apparently some people are on AT&T @Home, while
> > others are on AT&T Broadband, I am an AT&T Broadband customer, some of
> > my friends (Atlanta, Seattle) are AT&T @Home customers who no longer
> > have access, AT&T claims that everyone who lost access lastnight will
> > be online with AT&T Broadband within ~10 days.
>
> Dumb question. If AT&T knows it will take them 10 days to fix their
> network, why didn't they start 11 days ago? If AT&T had done that, it
> would have been finished already. I guess I will never understand
> the logic used by telephone companies.
>
> On the other hand, I don't understand what this gets Excite@Home's
> creditors. Once AT&T transfers its subscribers to a new network, why
> does it need @Home's network assets. Over the next 10 days, @Home's
> value to AT&T drops to zero.
>
> Heck, Priori handled their shutdown better.
>
>
