MOTM

@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.
> 
> 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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