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Cox And Comcast To Dump @Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-the-railing dept.

randolph reports the drop of yet another shoe in the ongoing @Home tale: "The New York Times reports that Cox and Comcast are ready to stop providing @Home's internet service, replacing it with some unnamed internet service. The story also comments 'AT&T may let At Home file for bankruptcy before making another investment in the company.' Registration required, yada yada."

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  1. Wait A Minute.... by cybrpnk · · Score: 4, Funny

    ....I've got Comcast@Home! They wouldn't dare cut off my elite broadband service and relegate me back to the dark hole of 56KBaud modem service, would th

  2. Good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Alan Cox quitting a distracting venture means he has more time to work on the linux kernel.

    1. Re:Good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      You, moderators, have no sense of humor. You might as well drop Anonymous Cowards from Slashdot entirely if you moderate them down by reflex without bothering to distinguish between trolls and funny shits. I'm pissed off. So I'm boycotting slashdot for the weekend and will work on my Ph.D. thesis instead (which might be a good thing after all).

  3. Uninterrupted service [sic] by mgarraha · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the end of the article:

    [The cable companies] say they will provide uninterrupted Internet service to their cable customers.

    That would be an improvement, yes?

  4. Not only that... by ZxCv · · Score: 3, Funny

    It'd be a fscking miracle, too...

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