Gservo
1st February 2003, 11:50 PM
With DirecTV Broadband poised to dismantle its high-speed Internet service, consumers are losing one of the last alternatives to the increasingly dominant telephone and cable giants.
Cupertino-based DirecTV, founded 5 1/2 years ago as Telocity, plans to begin turning off parts of its high-speed network Friday. The process will continue through Feb. 28, cutting off the last of the 160,000 nationwide subscribers the company had in mid-December when it announced its closing plans.
Read more of this Mercury News story-here- (http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/5061847.htm)
Cupertino-based DirecTV, founded 5 1/2 years ago as Telocity, plans to begin turning off parts of its high-speed network Friday. The process will continue through Feb. 28, cutting off the last of the 160,000 nationwide subscribers the company had in mid-December when it announced its closing plans.
Read more of this Mercury News story-here- (http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/5061847.htm)