@Home Network Approaching Shutdown 797
David Harris writes: "A bankruptcy court ruled today that the @Home network will be shutdown at midnight, unless the company reaches new deals with its cable partners and creditors. The decision is a victory for bondholders, owed $750 million by Excite@Home, whose motion asked the court to shutdown the network on grounds that AT&T's $307 million offer to acquire @Home's broadband network is not adequate and fair value for the network could only be found if a shutdown was forced." Read about it on excite.com, while you can. CNet has a good analysis of where things stand. 45% of the cable modem users in North America! Ouch.
First Post (Score:5, Funny)
Damit! @Home ... (Score:5, Funny)
starts looking in the back side of computer boxes to figure our which one has the modem installed
AT&T@Home == excite@Home? (Score:5, Funny)
Time for a new poll? (Score:2, Funny)
Who will be most upset by the @home outage?
Re:Before you post, please read this! (Score:1, Funny)
:-)
HEADLINE:INTERNET SPEEDS TRIPLE (Score:1, Funny)
Re:As seen on Excite (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's a shame (Score:5, Funny)
Immediate eradication of code red and nimda?
Really? What would the downside be?
If you let @Home go under... (Score:5, Funny)
Time for a Congressional bailout.
P.S. It's for the children...
Will Seti@Home be shut down too? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Goodbye Slashdot (Score:1, Funny)
"Hi, is Fred there?"
"Hey Nick, ready?"
"Sure."
"AF 0A 3F 12 92 45"
"Hold on Fred, I have some incoming packets."
"Oh okay."
"D0 31 20 00 56"
"Alright.." *taps on his keyboard* "51 39 2C..."
Re:DSL rocks (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, one's possessions (or the lack thereof) are the best guage of one's overall worth as an individual.
So, do you count among the stuff you *do* own the step ladder you use for climbing up on your high horse with?
They won't disconnect us (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Info For Comcast@home customers (Score:5, Funny)
I got news for those fuckers. A 300 baud modem is a faster speed than ZERO....
Re:This really doesn't make sense. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No not true (Score:2, Funny)