Update :)))
Dear correspondent,
Apologies in advance for multiple copies of this message.
You're receiving this email since you are listed as a contact person for one
or more IP services your company used to purchase from KPNQwest (IP Transit,
Dedicated Connect, IP VPN, Hosting, VoIP or similar).
As you might know KPNQwest filed for bankruptcy on 31 May 2002.
Financially supported by a Foundation, a team in KPNQwest kept the network
up and running during the past period. The support existed of funding for
repair actions in the network and funding of salaries of the staff in the
'skeleton' team.
The support of the Foundation stopped on Friday July 12th, at 23.00 hours.
>From that moment on there was no more funding for repair actions. Staff
has been paid until July 19th and will solve issues on best effort basis.
During this week you can already expect outages to happen that we cannot
solve any more. At the end of this week we expect that larger parts of the
network will be down.
We still hope that banks and administators can come to an agreement with
a buyer that is interested in bigger parts of the network. If that happens
services might continue to be provided in some manner.
For more information, please see our homepage (
www.kpnqwest.com) - we
will publish an update as we have it.
To all our customers - many thanks for your support in these difficult
times. Special thanks goes to KPN, for supporting the people in the
Network Operations Center in The Hague during the last weeks.
Regards,
KPNQwest Network Management Team