BrianDamage
We Are The Hounds From Hell
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| reply to AkumalDave
Re: Still skeptical
If AT&T's intent was truly to move into the DSL market, WHY did they summarily disconnect 110,000 (presumably) paying Northpoint customers?
Because AT&T bought Northpoint's assets, not the subscriber base. They were prohibited from servicing the customer base already in place.
Their plan was to buy the network, let it go dark, and then turn it back up using their own circuits.
I know, because I had talks with some of their managers about it after the acquisition, and again mentioned the cable agreement as being an impediment to a DSL deployment, which they denied at the time.
Don't look to me for any sympathy, AT&T...
I think that if anything they deserve sympathy for not having the foresight to see that they would never be able to make a go of this, at least until after so much time had passed that the entire DSL network they purchased had become hopefully obsolete.
They were pretty damn stupid in what they did, and now they are writing it off, because that's all they can do.
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