Voom closes down April 30th

From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30, 2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment

RobH wrote:
From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30, 2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment

Interesting... It was back for a little while, and I even saw a VOOM
commercial two days ago. Seems like they can't make up their minds.

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"RobH" wrote in message
...
From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30,
2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment

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That is the exact same notice (except the date) that was on the site a month
ago and then went away.

Are we sure it is not a hacker?

Richard C. wrote:
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"RobH" wrote in message
...

From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30,
2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment


==========================
That is the exact same notice (except the date) that was on the site a month
ago and then went away.

Are we sure it is not a hacker?



By doing the absolutely minimum amount of research:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=atvk7WX5kJnY&refer=top_world _news

--
Matthew

I'm a contractor. If you want an opinion, I'll sell you one.
Which one do you want?

Richard C. wrote:

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"RobH" wrote in message
...

From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30,
2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment


==========================
That is the exact same notice (except the date) that was on the site a month
ago and then went away.

Are we sure it is not a hacker?

By all accounts, this is for real. The shutdown was delayed before
because Charles Dolan asked for time to raise money to buy Voom and
apparently has failed to put together the financial backing to do so.
The Cablevision board voted to pull the plug ASAP to stop the money
drain. You may still see ads as some may have been paid for in advance.

Alan F

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:35:41 -0400, "Michael J. Sherman"
wrote:

RobH wrote:
From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30, 2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment

Interesting... It was back for a little while, and I even saw a VOOM
commercial two days ago. Seems like they can't make up their minds.

Sure they can. they just suckered in a few paying customers for the
last couple of months.
Thumper
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Thumper wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:35:41 -0400, "Michael J. Sherman"
wrote:


RobH wrote:

From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30, 2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment

Interesting... It was back for a little while, and I even saw a VOOM
commercial two days ago. Seems like they can't make up their minds.


Sure they can. they just suckered in a few paying customers for the
last couple of months.

Are you saying that they profited from signing on a few new subscribers
while hemorrhaging cash to pay for their fixed costs? The board was
right when they tried to close Voom sooner. It probably cost them
millions to stay in business for another couple of months.

Matthew

--
Thermodynamics and/or Golf for dummies: There is a game
You can't win
You can't break even
You can't get out of the game

I recall just last month there were post regardig how "VOOM is not
going away" customers were led to believe this by advertising... This
just goes to show that even when they are weak, it is often a
corporations responsibility to appear strong to try and gain more
customers. Had their plan worked they may have gotten enough interest
to keep a float.

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"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
...
Richard C. wrote:
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"RobH" wrote in message
...

From their website:

Voom will cease to provide service to existing customers on April 30,
2005.

New customer orders are no longer being accepted, and we are unable to
complete any scheduled installation or service appointments. You will be
contacted regarding any scheduled appointment


==========================
That is the exact same notice (except the date) that was on the site a
month ago and then went away.

Are we sure it is not a hacker?

By doing the absolutely minimum amount of research:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=atvk7WX5kJnY&refer=top_world _news

--
Matthew
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And just what is that link supposed to tell me?
There is nothing of import on that page.

Yea...all they needed was another 200,000 or so subscribers!

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oups.com...
I recall just last month there were post regardig how "VOOM is not
going away" customers were led to believe this by advertising... This
just goes to show that even when they are weak, it is often a
corporations responsibility to appear strong to try and gain more
customers. Had their plan worked they may have gotten enough interest
to keep a float.