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Re: Bye OneMain bought Penncom (the ISP I worked for) about 2 months before Earthlink bought OneMain.
OneMain was a joke, they where a bunch of investors that just bought a bunch of ISPs before Earthlink could and then sold them all to Earthlink at a higher price that what they would have paid. That is all OneMain was, not an ISP, but a group of investors that bought then quickly sold the whole group to make massive amounts of money. (My non-disclosure is moot at this point, sue me)
Local DSL customers, according to how Earthlink did it, if they could be switched over to an ATM circuit that could be shot down to there data center then fine, if not, they were shut off period.
T1, DS3s, etc, can all be moved so that was not an issue.
That story is what I heard a lot. After the local ISP was part of the borg basically the service went to hell. Honestly this was partly because of different dial-up servers. For example, at that time we used Lucent portmasters and Earthlink was using something I cannot even remember, but larger concentration units. | | |
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| I think you were right in the investors' strategy, but I'm not sure how much money they actually made, since OneMain stock tanked right before EarthLink bought them. The way I understood it was that, once the stock went in the toilet, EarthLink swooped in and grabbed it. Of course, the top guys still might have made money off the deal. I was too far down the food chain to know.
My ISP (Internet Partners of America) was fortunately never integrated into the OneMain billing/user management system (Remember the utter POS that B.O.S.S. was?), so we were pretty much left alone until the end. It was a good ride, kind of rocky at times, but we had good people there, and we had fun while it lasted. | |
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