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.
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?
The Judge said only if "public health or safety" would be affected. A hospital or similar type of customer could come forward, and request the judge re-consider because a shutdown would affect some critical public health of safety function. But I think that is unlikely in this case.