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The AtHome Shutdown

by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 05, 2001 12:51pm PST

With AT&T dropping its bid on Excite@Home, there's only one thing left for the troubled Internet provider. And that is shutting down, in February of next year. Now that almost all the cable providers that use AtHome have a transitional contract for 3 months during which they will put customers on their own network, AtHome won't be servicing anyone after that point it seems like right now. Thanks Conan Ford.

The Excite.com Web site wonÂ’t be affected by the current brouhaha. InfoSpace Inc., a Web-site operator in Bellevue, Wash., has been running the Excite site, in partnership with iWon Inc., as part of its purchase last week of some of Excite At HomeÂ’s media assets, including domain names, trademarks and user traffic associated with the Excite.com Web site. In terminating the asset offer, AT&T maintained that Excite, Redwood City, Calif., had significantly violated the agreement in numerous ways, including the termination of AT&TÂ’s service.


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    By: Barbarian x
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    Glad to be on Shaw @Home High Speed Internet. They've never used @Home for network traffic, always relying on their own network. They anticipated the shutdown of @home a year ago and started setting up their own news and email servers, which have been operational since spring.

    I think @home was a bit of a queasy idea from the start, especially after they bought Excite. That a provider (Shaw) that at one time was 25% of @Home subscribers never bought onto the idea of relying on home.net for routing says a lot.

    Rogers, the other Canadian provider, is a little more screwed. A year ago they declined to partner with Shaw in staking out away from @Home, and decided to stay with @Home loyally until the end.
    Dec 05, 2001 12:58pm PST