Excite@Home Go Bye Bye

[Bozo Galora]

Filed bankruptcy late Fri., All assets sold to AT&T for $307 Million

 

[Pepsi90919]

http://home-news.excite.ca/news/cp/010928/20/exciteathome-to-sell

 

[IamDavid]

Not surprising, to bad for the people who had Excite. AT&T is really bad for a cable ISP.

 

[Pepsi90919]

 

[Bozo Galora]

AT&T sucks goat gonads.
Gonna be a lot of unhappy people, after a while.

 

[AAjax]

Drats, time to look into DSL

 

[Wetling23]

Comcast to buy ATT Broadband

 

[Siva]

aww sh1t, I'm with comcast and I'm out of the range of DSL. How bad is ATT?

 

[ShadowHunter]

<< Comcast to buy ATT Broadband >>



Is ComCast any good? ATT already bought my MediaOne.

 

[Balt]

I just got comcast hooked up this morning (after waiting a few days for the line to be repaired). So far it is really nice, but it's not exactly prime usage time yet.

 

[351Cleveland]

I have had comcast for over a year... it was rought at first, but it ended up being a bad modem...

It is all good now.

 

[mrCide]

i've had att broadband in the fort lauderdale/broward area of south florida (where they bought out mediaone) and havent had any problems since i got it, DSL always gave me trouble, and was never as fast.. can't complain.

 

[crabbyapple1]

AT&T wants to buy back one of the baby bells right?

 

[acuraman]

I heard Bell South is talking with AT&T for it's long distance service but without the Broadband part just the phone portion.

 

[Lars]

Does this have any effect on the Adelphia@home service?

 

[crabbyapple1]

<< I heard Bell South is talking with AT&T for it's long distance service but without the Broadband part just the phone portion. >>


that's right. now I remember. In order for AT&T to purchase Bell South, they would have to sell off their broadband portion first. AT&T will buy and then sell @home. And for those who are concerned if their @home is going to be affected, correct me if I'm wrong but Excite purchased @home a while back right?

 

[CQuinn]

Adelphia has their own service called powerlink, they will probably switch thier @home customers over
to it soon enough.

 

[Josh]

YAY! More problems! :|

 

[Lars]

<< Adelphia has their own service called powerlink, they will probably switch thier @home customers over
to it soon enough. >>



Good

 

[ElFenix]

i never really did understand the point of @home... it was a company that did cable modems owned mosly by cable companies... timewarner does its own cable modem, and tca did its own as well (ah, my first cable modem back in summer '98).

wonder whats gonna happen to excite? i've had that as my startup page since they went to the my.excite thing back in 1997.

 

[Schlocemus]

Man, I can't think of a worse cable service, I have Comcast@Home.
Anything would be better...

 

[Michael]

I'm very happy with my AT&T@home service. AT&T moved to buy the ISP assets to make sure that service would continue with Excite@home in bankruptcy proceedings.

Michael

 

[Ziptar]

Uuuggghhh.... I have had Comcast@home for three years, It has been Great I literally have had 3 outages in that time. Mail servers down maybe 8 times..... They have never once complained about me running web, game, proxy, and mail servers in that time... I hope AT&T doesn't jack the rates or screwup the service......

 

[serialb]

I am gonna to miss their headquarter off 101. That building is cool looking.

 

[Pocatello]

ATT Broadband is going to be bought out soon. A lot of people want to buy it, Microsoft is one.