EXCITE@HOME TO SHUT DOWN

Dec 5, 2001 | broadband, business

The game of chicken poker is over and the loser is: everybody. AT&T drove Excite@Home into bankruptcy, hoping to pick up its assets for $300 million. The bondholders objected and said the assets were worth $1 billion. The bankruptcy court gave Excite permission to...

CABLE CHAOS

Dec 1, 2001 | broadband

It’s anarchy out there. Reports are coming in from all over (DSLReports.com is a good place to watch the action) about the ongoing Excite@Home shutdowns. As near as I can tell, Excite@Home decided to shut down one cable provider as an example to the others....

EXCITE@HOME CONSPIRACY THEORY

Nov 29, 2001 | broadband, business

The December 10 issue of Forbes magazine presents an interesting theory to explain how Excite@Home wound up in its current embarrassing predicament. “A new conspiracy theory alleges that AT&T, despite controlling 23% of @Home’s common shares and 74% of...

EXCITE@HOME MIGHT SHUT OFF CABLE INTERNET SERVICE

Nov 27, 2001 | broadband, business

Early this year Northpoint shut off DSL service to 100,000 customers with only a few days notice. It caused such a flap that I thought nothing like it would ever happen again. Guess what? Excite@Home says service might be shut off on Friday to 4.1 million cable...

BAILING OUT ON BROADBAND

Nov 7, 2001 | broadband

Prices for DSL and cable are rising, the economy’s in the doldrums, and many people have no interest in using a broadband connection to download music, listen to streamed audio, or watch postage-stamp sized video. Small wonder that more DSL and cable subscribers...

XO COMMUNICATIONS IN TROUBLE

Oct 7, 2001 | broadband, business

XO Communications is struggling to survive. Layoffs, salary freeze, reduced advertising – all the signs of yet another telecommunications company on the ropes. Here’s an article with more details.