Re: [NTLK] UUNET pulls Genuity POP's

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 09:16:14 EST


at the temporal coordinates: 2/12/02 9:00 AM, the entity known as
rminton_at_commscope.com at rminton_at_commscope.com conveyed the following:

>
> I woke up to a shock last night. UUNET apparently has purchased some or all
> of
> Genuity's network. My ISP which uses a lot of POP's as part of their national
> network that were set up by Genuity found out as of Friday that UUNET was
> turning about 400 of them off as of Sunday midnight. Consequently my home
> dial-up service is no more and I'm left with a choice of only local ISP's
> charging upwards of $25/month for 56K access. I'll bet complaints to UUNET
> wouldn't do any good because they're so big that they just wouldn't give a
> darn
> about a few users left out in the cold.
>

Curious. Does the law say anything about how much prior notice they have to
give? This is a service run over the phone lines, so perhaps they are in
violation of some FCC rule or something.

Not that it does you much good, except for satisfaction's sake perhaps.

- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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