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Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight


From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:30:33 -0500


On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:05:54PM -0500, James Smith wrote:
Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on
the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government
sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.

If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would
there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it?

If someone turns off your cable modem, are you unable to access
the "information superhighway"?  I doubt people pitched their modems
in the physical sense.

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