customers / The Administrators have not found any additional funding to continue Ebone operators and have asked personnel to evacuate the building and close down the network. Ebone employees have refused to do so and are motivated to keep the network up and running as long as possible. Ebone employees have requested the Belgian Government to help out finding a solution for the immediate future. TO: xxx CUSTOMER CONTACT: XXX FROM: customer at ebone.com DATE: 02/JUL/2002 08:44:48 ATTN: XXX KPNQWEST TT NUMBER: 180969 KPNQWEST CONTACT: Iain Tweedie-Walker CSC PHONE NUMBER: Any Queries please contact theCSC. BROADCAST MESSAGE To all our customers despite the Efforts of the 40 people at Ebone NOC these last few months to keep the network up and running our efforts have been in vain, as finally the banks and other parties concerned have stopped the proposed sale of Ebone happening.As a result of this we have now been ordered by the curators to shut down the Network.this will happen today 2 July 1, 2002 at 11:00AM CET. I wish to thank our entire customers for their support over these last few months and only wish that things could have turned out differently. Acquisition of assets Two weeks after the 03 July 2002 message to the operating team at Ebone, the company's physical assets were sold to Interoute Communications, Ltd., for €15 million, or 100% of the purchase price KPNQwest had paid to acquire the asset five months prior. The Ebone asset provided critical Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) to the Interoute infrastructure. See also EuropaNet European Academic and Research Network (EARN) RARE References External links Archives of the Closure of EBONE Information technology organizations based in Europe Internet in Europe Internet-related organizations Internet in 1992