@home was ordered to "shutdown" by a bankruptcy judge but the bondholders (AT&T and
Cox are two) can negotiate service. From what I have seen from the North American
Network Operators (nanog) mailing list, there are service outages for some AT&T
customers and some are being notified to expect the outage to last for a few days...
I would expect a few hiccups in the days ahead affecting some nets but nothing
horrific.
However, I think the days of $9.95/mo Internet service are over. It is very
difficult to have a profitable business at even $19.95 a month for dialup service.
It is even higher for broadband. Expect prices to rise as competition fades for
service in some areas. Cable service has provided a tremendous amount of bandwidth
to folks at a very low price. That's been a great boon but it is a money loser.
Expect your Internet service bill to start resembling your phone bill where the
"extra" services start costing more. For example, you are charged extra for
touch-tone service on your phone bill but try to get service without it! Just like
caller-id, bandwidth greater than 56Kb will cost more.
ERic
--- "J. Larry Hendry" <
jlarryh@...> wrote:
> Is anyone besides me noticing a series of outages that may be related to the
> @ home system money troubles. There was an article in a local paper
> indicating that the local cable TV provider got their service from them.
> There was much concern over the future. I find www.wiseguysynth.com down
> and the cable provider for that server comes from @ home. I also have some
> undeliverable mail messages today to otherwise good addresses.
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> Is something actually collapsing or am I just paranoid? Fortunately, my
> site back up mirror (graciously provided by Cary Roberts) is still on-line
> for anyone requiring documentation for 831/822 stuff. My site mirror is
> here:
> http://larry.retrosynth.com/larry/default.htm
>
> I have no way to update the mirror however.
>
> Stooge Larry
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