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Just read the article which sheds some light on the philosophical issues,
but I am still having trouble with the technical issue, i.e. when @home
pulls the plug, will Comcast no longer have a legal and physical connection
to the internet backbone?
I use @home . . . at home. Since I have POP service through my office, and
don't use the @home POP for eMail, and my browser does not start with the
Comcast home page, will I still have a connection? Will I lose anything?
Art
At 12:29 PM 12/2/2001 -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
This is really the crux of my question: what is "ISP service" if not "data
transport"? What is going out of business, a "content provider", or an
"Internet access provider"?
Art
At 08:49 AM 12/2/2001 -0500, Bill Patterson wrote:
Art wrote:
"It is also bizarre that the report is the bankruptcy is caused by the cable
franchisees not paying @home enough, but at the same time, it is reported
that @home is a "partnership" of (i.e. owned by) the cable company
franchisees???"
Check out
http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/gtevatt/Default.htm
which refers to an anti-trust case in which it is said that "GTE's Internet
subsidiaries sue AT&T's cable subsidiary, TCI, as well as cable company
Comcast, and ISP, At Home, alleging that bundling
high speed cable data transport with ISP service is a violation of Sherman
Antitrust Act."
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