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AT&T did the same thing to my parents. This summer, they signed on to their Houston-area digital wireless pilot program. $30 flat fee for local phone service, free in-state long distance, and AT&T High Speed Digital Broadband for $35 a month. Two weeks ago, the phoned my mother and told her AT&T was discontinuing the program and she had five days to find a new internet service provider and local phone service provider. Oh course, she and my dad could choose to stay with the regular AT&T service.
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A bankruptcy judge cleared the way for Excite@Home to shut down its Internet cable service as early as 3 a.m. ET. Saturday, but expressed confidence that the company will strike a new deal with cable companies to prevent interruption of service for its 4.2 million subscribers.
On late Friday afternoon, Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Carlson gave Excite@Home the leeway to end the contracts after concluding they had become "clearly burdensome" to the company. Under the contracts, Excite@Home executives said the company was losing up to $6 million per week.
"The end users may be affected by these proceedings, but they are not parties to these proceedings," Carlson said. "Bankruptcy typically causes much disruption all the time, leading to loss of jobs and services to communities."
The ruling affects many of the nation's largest cable companies, including AT&T (T: Research, Estimates), Comcast Corp. (CMCSK: Research, Estimates) and Cox Communications Inc. (COX: Research, Estimates), that sell Internet access through @Home's network.
Excite@Home wants the cable companies to pay a substantially higher connection fee to use its network. Until Excite@Home's bankruptcy, the cable companies had been paying a monthly fee of $12 per subscriber. Last month, the cable companies agreed to increase the monthly fee to $20 per subscriber.
The cable companies typically charge their customers $40 to $50 per month to use the @Home network.
By forcing the cable companies to pay even more to use the high-speed Internet service, Excite@Home and the company's bondholders hope to prove the network is worth substantially more than the $307 million that AT&T has bid for it.
The bondholders have accused AT&T of using its controlling position on Excite@Home's board to steer the company into bankruptcy as part of a scheme to buy one of the nation's biggest high-speed Internet networks at a bargain price. AT&T has denied the allegations.
The judge said Excite's bondholders have the right to negotiate a better offer, but AT&T so far has not sweetened the deal it first made when Excite@Home, the nation's No.5 Internet service provider, filed chapter 11 bankruptcy in late September.
In a company statement, Excite@Home said it urges @Home customers to contact their cable companies for further information about their network services.
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ZOmegaZ? What, you want a Starcraft rematch?
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HAHA, Shaw is smart and had already anticipate such dumbness by @home
All of Shaw's user (at least in Canada) has already been move to Shaw's own backbone.
Plus, Shaw still have some sort of ties with @home, so we scan still use our @home.com email account, and @home.com webpage account!
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: ZOmegaZ? What, you want a Starcraft rematch?
I do, and I'll crush your head like a puny tin can.
Like the last time.
And the time before that.
And like the next time.
And like the next time after that.
And like the next time after that.
And like the next time after that.
...
I need to get a good internet connection tho.
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Just look me up on ICQ some evening. You're on.
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Pardon me for asking, but what the hell is Starcraft? Is it any good? What is it about? If I were to buy the game, how easily could I kick Omega's ass?
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