StumpMan
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join:2001-07-26
Clinton, NC | Clue Truck coming down the road...
Information age, meet AT&T.. AT&T, meet the information age.
Connection speeds have been getting faster and faster for a long time now. More cars on the road? Add more lanes. |
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King P
Don't blame me. I voted for Ron Paul
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join:2004-11-17
Inman, SC | begin "No free ride" banter
How long before Ed Whitacre gets pissed about this and wants Google to pay for a new one?
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dodgetech2
join:2002-01-01
Gouldsboro, PA | reply to StumpMan
Re: Clue Truck coming down the road...
LOL... |
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backness
join:2005-07-08
K2P OW2 | reply to StumpMan
a while ago i heard a stroy on the radio about how the highway system is bound to fail because everytime they add roads they are filled by traffic(in metropolitain areas). So in effect, i don't think that there is an easy solution to this problem. |
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shoan
join:2006-02-27
Benton, AR | moore's law
Is this not a variation of moore's law just kinda showing exponential growth over time. |
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Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | reply to StumpMan
Re: Clue Truck coming down the road...
Remember, ATT laughed at the internet when it was first developed by DARPA. |
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nissan720
join:2006-02-21
Stillwater, OK | Maybe it could be all of those new customers they added
I have been hearing about all the growth AT&T is having in their customer base.
What would you expect to happen when you have large amounts of growth in a short amount of time. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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Re: begin "No free ride" banter
said by King P  :How long before Ed Whitacre gets pissed about this and wants Google to pay for a new one? Google should help AT&T through this troubling time by throttling connection speeds from AT&T customers who are accessing Google's website. 
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MxxCon
join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY
clubs:   | that's a good solution.
throttle all the connections on at&t network so they could oversell it for longer period of time.
back to dialup everybody!
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bamabrad
join:2006-01-27
Port Orange, FL | In actuality....
a nice problem to have. This means that they have more customers that are using more BW (DUH!)-which means more $ generated for the corporation- they just need to put this latest revenue into the upgrades to receive MORE $- NOT in the CEO's pocket. |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
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join:2001-03-29
The Lou
·Charter Pipeline
| said by bamabrad :This means that they have more customers that are using more BW (DUH Or it could mean the same number of customers are using higher bandwidth applications.
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owenhome
keeper of the magic blue smoke
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join:2002-07-13
Bentonville, AR
| OMG!
said by AT&T Corporate A$$ Hat :
People are using their connections! Whatever shall we do? Increase prices? Charge content providers? OMFG!?!? If people actually make use of what we sell them, we wont meet our 99.9999% profit goal!!!!
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | ok
AT&T is your bandwidth filling up because of the NSA CRAP? |
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs:
| AT&T says
" All of a sudden, people had a new set of needs. We need to get accustomed to that situation."
Ummm..yea...Duh..kinda like the whole ftth thing that you haven't yet jumped on, eh AT&T?
Uverse just ain't gonna cut it. You need to be where Verizon is in order to compete in the future.
People need to realize that Uverse is supposedly their NEXT generation product. Those arguing that it's enough simply are not considering how explosive this whole video/hdtv issue is, how bandwidth intensive it is, and how that needs to be combined with the explosion in HSI speeds that people are now demanding.
Uverse is in ONE community, San Antonio. One.
How many years before they could get everywhere they need to be with that?
Can you imagine where things WILL be when they finally get finished in terms of the competition?
Uverse will be like a p3 500mhz machine in a field of 4000+ Athlons.
A company should not simply start down a road to nowhere at this stage of the game when that technology even TODAY is showing signs of being outdated.
They are NOT doing themselves, their shareholders..or we, their customers, any favors in doing so.
Verizon took some heat for their decision. Shareholders screamed and hollered. But today, their stock is recovering nicely as investors see they made the right decision with their fios rollout.
»finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=VZ&t=1y···m&q=l&c=
AT&T..you need to do the same.
Or, it just might be the end of you if you don't.
Comcast is coming...their 99.00 triple play..which essentially gives FREE telephone service..is going to eat you alive.
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TKJunkMail
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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Re: Clue Truck coming down the road...
said by StumpMan :Information age, meet AT&T.. AT&T, meet the information age. Connection speeds have been getting faster and faster for a long time now. More cars on the road? Add more lanes. And as some posters here are always claiming, lighting up dark fiber doesn't cost anything. So AT&T is just being evil for not doing that.
But it does cost something to light up more bandwidth, and AT&T will just have to raise their rates to all the providers that use their backbone. And those providers will have to either raise rates or throttle bandwidth use by blocking all the illegal P2P copyright infringers sucking up bandwidth.
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MASantangelo
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join:2004-07-19
Pittstown, NJ
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I agree with the analogy but a bad thought comes from it...
When the government decides to add more roads, how do they fund it? A boost in revenue through taxes, making us pay for them.
AT&T will try the same thing as every corporation will do - charge more to increase profit, use that profit to build, then maintain the higher charges and call it maintenance fees while pocketing the already good profits.
Sweet for them.
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tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL
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Honestly, I'm not sure they'd have to raise rates. More people using the networks means more subscribers, means more profit. Given that most customers aren't the oft-quoted 5% "hogging it all", they are effectively pure profit which should be able to offset any such "light up" cost would incur.
If not, then obviously they'll have to raise rates, however. But, that's business as usual.
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morbo
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join:2002-01-22
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|  PR justification for upcoming DSL price increases/neutrality
anyone think this is fishy?
we know they are suffering from some bad PR for spying on U.S. citizens and spitting on the constitution and laws of this country. also more bad PR for anti-net neutrality campaigns.
this is suppose to provide justification for price increases? make us feel sorry for them? |
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RayW
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join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs: | reply to tsu9
Re: Clue Truck coming down the road...
But the article was not talking about new subscribers, it was talking about new data types like video and multimedia that eat up a tremendous amount resources not used before.
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odreian615
join:2006-01-18
Chicago, IL | 100gb WTF
try a 800-1000 |
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