IP: AT&T's acquiring of Northpoint Communications facilities protest letter

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>
>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:03:32 -0500 (EST)
>From: Phil Banh <banhp@dca.net>
>To: dave@farber.net
>Subject: AT&T's acquiring of Northpoint Communications facilities protest
>  letter
>
>
>Hi Professor Farber,
>
>I am an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, and shortly after
>becoming that, I worked for Meng Weng Wong running the
>pobox.com, listbox.com, and fauxbox.com services, where I came into
>contact with your mailing list.
>
>Currently, I'm an engineer with DCANet and we are (or should I say we
>were) a Northpoint DSL partner ISP.
>
>With the acquiring of Northpoint's facilities and equipment by AT&T and
>the sudden stoppage of Northpoint's entire network today, I wanted to
>bring to your attention a link to the following online petition directed
>to the CEO of AT&T, C. Michael Armstrong.
>
>http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?StopATT
>
>This petition is in protest of AT&T's treatment of 100k+ former Northpoint
>DSL broadband customers; many of whom surely now must seriously question
>the wisdom in adopting the much ballyhooed "always on" and inexpensive DSL
>broadband service for their critical IT infrastructure.
>
>Credit goes to theregister.co.uk for their article pointing me in this
>direction which can be found here:
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18011.html
>
>It is my belief that AT&T's disregard for the sizable installed Northpoint
>customer base will generate no small amount of ill will among the affected
>organizations, reflecting not only upon AT&T and their image in the public
>eye, but possibly upon the struggling DSL industry as a whole.
>
>If you find this petition and issue to be of merit and interest to your
>list, it would thrill me greatly, if you would foward this on to your
>readers.
>
>Sincerely,
>Philip Banh
>Internetworking Engineer
>Consult Dyanimcs / DCANet
>banhp@dca.net



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