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Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:49:55 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
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.
I don't know if Excite@Home had a different contract with AT&T, but Charter Communications moved 90% of its subscribers to a different upstream by Saturday. Charter's spokeperson said they only had a few thousand subscribers left on @Home. Charter's VP said they had teams working for the last two months in preparation for the cutover. Charter's actions seem to demonstrate that when management thinks its important to get the job done, it gets done. If Charter could do it, I would expect other providers could have done it, if their management wanted to do it.
Current thread:
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Hank Nussbacher (Dec 01)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Marc MERLIN (Dec 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 01)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Miles Fidelman (Dec 01)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Jeff Wasilko (Dec 01)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 02)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Miles Fidelman (Dec 02)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Miles Fidelman (Dec 01)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Sean Donelan (Dec 02)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Derek J. Balling (Dec 02)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Robert A. Hayden (Dec 02)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Sean Donelan (Dec 02)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Kevin Oberman (Dec 02)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Ulf Zimmermann (Dec 03)
- Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight Frank Jimenez (Dec 03)