On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:14:48PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, 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.
The FCC Chairman Michael Powell did write to the Judge overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings.
(Excerpt from) http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/011130/n30289284_2.html "Separately, Powell said the FCC would soon launch a notice of proposed rulemaking to examine the state of broadband with the goal of ending the government's practice of ``lurching and reacting'' to advances in the high-speed Internet access industry." Some hints that FCC may want to regulate in the case of bankruptcy providers of [internet] broadband services. This would possibly help as far as having people be required to get sufficent warning that their service is going to be terminated (such as 90+ days for those that don't pay attention to these things) and provide in this case companys like at&t bb, charter, comcast, cox, mediaone, and any other provider still (be it partially or in whole) using @home for their overall transit to arrange for a new provider of internet connectivity. (as well as the home user to persue other services and have a good way to get out of their contracts possibly [if they are not month-to-month]). - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.