DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down

Phroggy writes "Effective today (Friday the 13th), DIRECTV Broadband is officially out of business. The company will remain partially operational for the next 60 to 90 days, and we will work to transition our roughly 160,000 customers to another provider. Details are still sketchy. So, anybody gonna be hiring in the Portland area in a couple months?" There's a press release about the shutdown.

Comments

Sad, but necessary

[I Am The Owl]

Unfortunately, this was largely due to the large amounts of bandwidth unfairly utilized by the "power users" of the network, who used applications such as KazAA and Napster most likely to pirate music and other questionable activities. It is sad that we will no longer be able to get satellite TV here because a few people using DSL had to ruin it for everyone else by getting greedy.

Why can't people just take what they need, instead of running off with everything that isn't nailed down?

moderators on crack again

[Anonymous Coward]

That was not offtopic... you've obviously never seen the directv dsl commercial, where the guy goes to a webpage and it says "you have reached the end of the internet"

that was a damn funny post and if i had mod points i would mod it up. asshats.

Hah!

[supabeast!]

This is what those assholes get for firing me after I used profanity in the DirecPC customer service database!

FUCK YOU, Hughes!

Re:Lightning bolt!

[hot_sleeper]

Fucking Awesome!

I watched it twice.

Just perfect for slashdotters. GO SLashDot!!
P.S. Linux sucks really bad.

Re:How sudden?

[mstyne]

We think you should have probably not gotten a job with a shitty cutrate DSL provider, you tosser.