| 85,000 NorthPoint Victims Fight Back!!! AT&T is didn't have to drop residential customers and I don't have to use AT&T wireless and long distance services. AT&T provides DSL (according to their web site) in my area for $49/month and should have offered to reprovision affected users. I plan to complain through AT&T's Executive Complaint number and cancel my wireless and long distance service through AT&T in protest. I encourage others who have been injured by the AT&T buyout terms or who are just plain disgusted with it to register their concerns and re-evaluate the type of company they are using for their wireless and long distance. They may kill DSL competition, but there are still plenty of wireless and long distance providers!!!
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 taoChaos ImpendsPremium
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Lansing, MI | I think that it is cool for you to cancel services with AT&T, if that is your decision to do so. However, the AT&T deal with Northpoint has not been finalized yet! As such, AT&T does not own any of the Northpoint equipment at this time. The deal is subject to FCC approval, no one expects this decision any sooner than sixty days. IF the FCC approves the deal, then AT&T may do with this equipment what it wishes.
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| said by net123:
IF the FCC approves the deal, then AT&T may do with this equipment what it wishes.
Not just the FCC. This, of course, will also need Justice department approval, and more important, approval of the Public Utility Commissions in the 39 states where Northpoint operated -- particularly in California, where Northpoint was headquartered, had 60% of their customers, and has most of its assets. By flaunting the California PUC's authority, Northpoint and AT&T are risking having their deal rejected by an annoyed PUC.
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Lansing, MI | dsl_boy:
You may be right, but California's PUC hardly has authority to overrule a US court. They may dictate what AT&T does with the equipment, but beyond that I am skeptical for each and every state...
It is my understanding that the DOJ has an option to investigate the deal's legality, but does not have oversite responsibility or veto options. Perhaps you mean the FTC which, I think, could interfere with legal authority.
Cheers,
Mike
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I think the Northpoint people have misdirected their anger. As this thread and some of the others show, AT and T doesn't own the equipment quite yet so it had no say over what happened. (If the CA PUC has to approve then AT and T couldn't have prevented what happened)
Now that I've guaranteed to get some ex NP customers upset let me get to the meat of the problem.
The reason the circuits were turned of is a failure of NP to pay it's bills. The parties resonsible for the turndown of circuits are listed below:
1. Northpoint by using a business model destined for failure.
2. ILECs who cut the DSL loops to the customers.
3. Backbone providers who moved the data and stopped its flow.
If you really want someone to blame, look to the ILECs and backbone people who cut the circuits. Look to Northpoint for failing to pay.
AT and T had no control over the situation. |
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