IP: AT&T's acquiring of Northpoint Communications facilities protest letter

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:03:32 -0500 (EST)
> From: Phil Banh <banhp () dca net>
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: AT&T's acquiring of Northpoint Communications facilities protest
>  letter
>
>
> Hi Professor Farber,
>
> I am an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, and shortly after
> becoming that, I worked for Meng Weng Wong running the
> pobox.com, listbox.com, and fauxbox.com services, where I came into
> contact with your mailing list.
>
> Currently, I'm an engineer with DCANet and we are (or should I say we
> were) a Northpoint DSL partner ISP.
>
> With the acquiring of Northpoint's facilities and equipment by AT&T and
> the sudden stoppage of Northpoint's entire network today, I wanted to
> bring to your attention a link to the following online petition directed
> to the CEO of AT&T, C. Michael Armstrong.
>
> http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?StopATT
>
> This petition is in protest of AT&T's treatment of 100k+ former Northpoint
> DSL broadband customers; many of whom surely now must seriously question
> the wisdom in adopting the much ballyhooed "always on" and inexpensive DSL
> broadband service for their critical IT infrastructure.
>
> Credit goes to theregister.co.uk for their article pointing me in this
> direction which can be found here:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18011.html
>
> It is my belief that AT&T's disregard for the sizable installed Northpoint
> customer base will generate no small amount of ill will among the affected
> organizations, reflecting not only upon AT&T and their image in the public
> eye, but possibly upon the struggling DSL industry as a whole.
>
> If you find this petition and issue to be of merit and interest to your
> list, it would thrill me greatly, if you would foward this on to your
> readers.
>
> Sincerely,
> Philip Banh
> Internetworking Engineer
> Consult Dyanimcs / DCANet
> banhp () dca net



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