At 3:37 AM -0500 12/2/01, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
I've had no problems, apparently some people are on AT&T @Home, while others are on AT&T Broadband, I am an AT&T Broadband customer, some of my friends (Atlanta, Seattle) are AT&T @Home customers who no longer have access, AT&T claims that everyone who lost access lastnight will be online with AT&T Broadband within ~10 days.
Dumb question. If AT&T knows it will take them 10 days to fix their network, why didn't they start 11 days ago? If AT&T had done that, it would have been finished already. I guess I will never understand the logic used by telephone companies.
On the other hand, I don't understand what this gets Excite@Home's creditors. Once AT&T transfers its subscribers to a new network, why does it need @Home's network assets. Over the next 10 days, @Home's value to AT&T drops to zero.
Because AT&T didn't have the right to break the contract (by essentially "Stealing" @H customers), only E@H had that discretion (as the party to whom the contract was "unbearable"). So until AT&T's contract expired or was terminated, AT&T had to stick to it, but now that the contract is terminated, they can haul ass converting the users over to their own system. At least that's my non-lawyer interpretation, given the various stories I've read. :-) D -- +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | dredd@megacity.org | "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man | | Derek J. Balling | That ever lived in the tide of times. | | | Woe to the hand that shed this costly | | | blood" - Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1 | +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+