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Mobilestar Less Mobile; Excite@Home Less Exciting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the companies-in-freefall dept.

jc1 writes: "MobileStar, provider of 802.11b wireless LAN connectivity throughout 500 of the USA's Starbucks cafes, has laid off 88 of its staff, which a source described as "everybody". With the demise in August of Metricom's Ricochet service, one is left to wonder if there is a business to be made in providing public wireless Internet services." Or any broadband internet access at all - Excite@Home, currently in bankruptcy proceedings, has stopped taking any new orders.

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  1. Big bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. Re:Your .Sig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  5. Toll-free complaint line by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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  6. Re:fuck you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you wish you had the class that egg troll has
    you are an amateur