Excite@Home Dead In 3 Days?

November 27, 2001 2:12 PM

Yahoo is carrying this Reuters story which reports that the bankrupt Excite@Home could possibly cease providing its cable internet service in 3 days, if it can't get into new contracts with the cable companies that carry the internet service. This depends on a judge, which representatives of Excite@Home will face this Thursday. Thanks GoofyBoy

Representatives of Redwood City, California-based Excite@Home will appear in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco on Thursday, where a judge will decide whether to have the service blocked if current negotiations fail, said spokeswoman Stephanie Xavier.
``It depends on the decision of the judge,'' she said. ``All I can say is we're in active negotiations with the cable companies. We're doing all that we can to maintain service.''
Xavier said many of the cable companies that carry Excite@Home have informed users that their service could cease after Nov. 30.

update by Steve: d-mAn sent along this email that @Home customers in Dallas have gotten.

Maarten Goldstein

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redfive

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November 27, 2001 2:13 PM

BYE BYE @HOME
- jenkin
  
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  November 27, 2001 2:16 PM
  
  I have @home, does all of @home = excite@home? I've never heard it called that before. Just wondering if maybe excite@home is some brance of @home? If this is talking about all of @home, I'm totally fucked. *shakes fist*
  - Maarten Goldstein
    
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    November 27, 2001 2:17 PM
    
    yeah they are one and the same. excite = content, @home = the service. but the main company is called excite@home.
    - jenkin
      
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      November 27, 2001 2:23 PM
      
      Time for me to cry myself to sleep in the fetal position now. I haven't heard of troubles or anything. I wish they would have said something like a month ago, so I could have started looking for a new service. On the bright side, time to go around cutting my neighboors cable lines to increase my bandwidth. What are they going to do? buwahah
      - Entity
        
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        November 27, 2001 2:30 PM
        
        depending where you are, the local support company might pick up the service. For example, in my area in Canada, Shaw communications is taking over and calling it Shaw.ca. They have shitloads of business up here. A little while ago, a message was sent out saying they were taking it over locally and all was cool.
        
        jenkin
        
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        November 27, 2001 2:53 PM
        
        Well, now that i think of it, it's always advertised as Cox@home. Cox communications is the local cable company, so maybe they'll pick it up. I hope so.
        
        Quagmire
        
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        November 27, 2001 3:06 PM
        
        Yeah, I've got cox@home too. I'm hoping the cox will pick it up & not just dump us all (can't really see that happening, too much money rolling in). Wasn't @home actually making money before they merged with excite? From what I remember reading, it was excite blowing buttloads of cash trying to build a portal service that bankrupted the company, not the residential broadband service itself.
        
        I live to far from the telco for DSL. I'd prolly have to go to direcpc (ugh) to get broadband if cox really does stop providing service.
        
        /crosses fingers...
        
        Entity
        
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        November 27, 2001 3:09 PM
        
        I believe there's money to be made in cablemodems. DSL isn't available everywhere you go, so it's good to have an alternative. Keeps prices in line too.
        
        verbatim
        
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        November 27, 2001 3:10 PM
        
        I remember an article about that. @home wanted a portal and scooped up Excite. They poured everything they had into it and realized, eventually, that it didn't make money (it in fact lost more money than they dumped into it, I beleive).
  - redfive
    
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    November 27, 2001 2:18 PM
    
    Excite owns @Home. They have gone bankrupt to a point. Really only small companies who contracted everything out to @Home will lose their service.