Posted: 23rd Apr, 2003 By: MarkJ
It appears as if the problems at Affinity Internet Holdings (AIH), which was recently placed into administration, has caused at least one UK ISP to terminate its dialup products!
One of our readers (John) received the following service update from Virtual ISP Services Ltd.:
Please be advised that your internet connection account will be terminated on Thursday 24th April at 5pm. This is due to Affinity Internet (Virtual ISP Services Ltd) being placed in administration. We understand that Affinity Internet's business has been acquired by Cleverview and we recommend that you direct your enquiries to them directly on 0870 0102472.
We further understand that domains have been retagged by a brand of the same Company. If you are affected by this, we would advise that you take up any issues regarding that with Cleverview directly, again, on the same number.
We apologise for the inconvenience this will undoubtedly cause you.
It remains to be seen whether this will also have a knock on effect with other Affinity backed UK ISPs, such as Breathe.
Its interesting to note that Cleverview is a group linked with Brightview (IC24, Madasafish etc.), which has also just been placed into administration.