 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1 | QWest will sell itself to the highest bidder. At some point in time, QWest realized that it cannot compete without a cellular phone network (AT&T and Verizon are losing hundreds of land-line customers a day to cellular only - which THEY don't mind), and without a good broadband strategy.
They will milk the DSL and land-line market as long as they can, and they you will see talks with AT&T or Verizon for a "merger".
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 Duramax08Win8 sucksPremium
join:2008-08-03
San Antonio, TX | ...... This makes me kind of mad because all i can get is dialup and I would love to have some kind of faster internet too. They are probably going to go over their existing areas that already have high speed internet. |
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| One... Is he still on dial-up?
Two... How does he feel about the telegraph? |
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| Funny While he talks about faster speeds on cable with Docsis 3.0 but what good is it if they cap or meter it to death. Of course its going to be faster NO one is online. |
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| Typical Wall Street Myopia Wall Street cannot see beyond their next martini let alone a future of broadband. These analysts would love to have a situation where a company does not spend a cent on anything and just milk existing customers. That makes for really good balance sheets and certainly makes these analysts happy.
Moffett favors cable stocks so it is no surprise that he wants telco alternatives to fail. When I had FIOS installed I was told by VZ techs that they have a hard time keeping up with new installs because people dropping cable like a bad dream. Comcast loses hundreds customers per day in Philadelphia area to FIOS. Every house on my block switched. Everyone I know who can get FIOS got it. That speaks for itself. Verizon's cost might be a bit higher now, but they will come down and in a longer run they'd be a far better position for the next-generation communications services.
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 rec9140Provoice just DO it
join:2003-07-29
Mulberry, FL | Analysts....shoot them like all the lawyers.. I hereby award Mr. Moffett the Jester Analyst of the Year Award for totally having no clue about technology.
Thanks for proving mine and several posters point in a recent news thread how analysts have no clue what they are talking about except how to make money for themselves.
Thank you thank you, thank you.
Now some body find this idiot and turn all his little toys off. No cell phone, no internet, no pc's. He can go back to an adding machine and a ticker tape.
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Re: Typical Wall Street Myopia said by Xela19115:Wall Street cannot see beyond their next martini let alone a future of broadband. These analysts would love to have a situation where a company does not spend a cent on anything and just milk existing customers. That makes for really good balance sheets and certainly makes these analysts happy. Moffett favors cable stocks so it is no surprise that he wants telco alternatives to fail. When I had FIOS installed I was told by VZ techs that they have a hard time keeping up with new installs because people dropping cable like a bad dream. Comcast loses hundreds customers per day in Philadelphia area to FIOS. Every house on my block switched. Everyone I know who can get FIOS got it. That speaks for itself. Verizon's cost might be a bit higher now, but they will come down and in a longer run they'd be a far better position for the next-generation communications services. well, not all analysts are this (I'm trying to be polite) horrible, however, there is a saying:
"In a bull market, who needs analysts, in a bear market, they'll kill you".
He must love his rotary phone. |
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Re: Analysts....shoot them like all the lawyers.. Gee and the phone companies have only been milking this copper for almost 100 years in some areas,
This guy is a donkey, the fiber is a sunk cost to be recouped over the next 100 years or at minimum 30. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Thank God idiots like him don't make decisions.... Ban this idiot from using computers or cellphones or anything remotely advanced. He's obviously happy with the luddite philosophy. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | World's Biggest Douche.... ... and the winner is.....
Craig Moffett!
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 danclan
join:2005-11-01
Midlothian, VA | its these typical short sighted assessments that led the cable co's to the hybrid fiber coax plants in the first place. Comcast had the chance to convert to all fiber but didnt.
The biggest richest men think long term 5+ years. Fios and Verizon are primed for that time frame. As are ANY full FTTH providers.
Its only a matter of time before Comcast and others will have to deploy FTTH. They may come up with some magic bullet in the mean time but they are just biding time. |
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mobbo
join:2005-04-13
Denton, TX | Will be buying Verizon stock now. Thanks, Craig, for the stock tip. I will be sure to buy stock in a company that has a product people will MOVE HOUSES for and is future proof. |
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 L337Premium
join:2005-03-10
Chicago, IL | reply to Duramax08
Re: ...... Have you ever heard of T-Mobile Internet Data line? |
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Re: World's Biggest Douche.... HAHAHAHAH |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Xela19115
Re: Typical Wall Street Myopia the typical US investor cant see beyond the end of the current quarter. its why analysts and investors dont like major plant upgrades because they cause a big hit this quarter even if the gain is huge in 10 years.
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dynodbPremium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | reply to danclan
Re: World's Biggest Douche.... said by danclan:Its only a matter of time before Comcast and others will have to deploy FTTH. They may come up with some magic bullet in the mean time but they are just biding time. That may be true, but if so- letting someone else be the guinea pig and work out the bugs isn't necessarily a bad thing. The longer you wait, the lower the deployment costs become (as Verizon has witnessed). Waiting until there's a high demand also decreases the time it takes to get a return on your investment.
Remember- about 75% of people who could get FiOS... don't.
Who's smarter- the one who rushed out and installed Windows Vista on the day it was released, or the one who waited a bit to see how it worked out? |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | said by dynodb:Who's smarter- the one who rushed out and installed Windows Vista on the day it was released, or the one who waited a bit to see how it worked out? The one who waited for all the hacks and DRM to be stripped out and then installed it for free. 
Heh, j/k'ing but I get your point.
Still though, long term the Cable co could be rushing to play catch up while bleeding customers to FIOS.
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 WiseOldNerdDe gustibus non est disputandumPremium
join:2001-11-25
Phoenix, AZ
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| Analysts Should be Sent to Gitmo If we really want to deal with terrorism in the modern world, we should collect all the "analysts" transport them to Gitmo and leave them there to fend for themselves.
Most of these arrogant, airhead piss ants have never held a real job doing anything to produce real goods or service. They shoot off their mouths and the sheep follow.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to dynodb
Re: World's Biggest Douche.... When Vista SP1 was released, then the person who had installed it first could fly ahead having experience already with the system, while the person who waited to upgrade would still have the difficulties of being used to the XP environment and have to undergo those shifts as well?
The big cost of FTTH is deployment. After the system exists changing technologies on the system is much easier than having to rebuild the system from scratch- when CMCSA/TWC/Cox decide to migrate to an all-FTTH system, they'll have to deploy, while Verizon will have a deployed system already.
The big problem is that this results in massive shortterm costs and a landline division that is falling apart and is propped up only by the runaway success that is Verizon Wireless. The real benefits won't be seen in the future... as bandwidth needs grow, more people will want the kinds of speeds that VZ is ready to provide, but right now it's very shaky, and patches on the cable system like DOCSIS 3 will extend the shaky period. |
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join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| To young to remember Cable's woes in the mid 90's. I guess that when the cable industry was having it's clock cleaned by the direct broadcast satellite industry in the mid 90's. Mr. Moffett was still rolling over in his crib crapping his diaper. Cable customers were given the choice of 55 channels of poor quality cable service versus well over 100 channels of Direct Broadcast Satellite service. The cable industry soon lost so many customers that they supported development of digital cable and upgraded their networks to support 750MHz bandwidth. If Mr. Moffett will pull his head out of his anus he will realize that Verizon is ready to clean the clocks of any cable companies that are in the same market as Verizon's FiOS. If all of the Telephone Companies would upgrade their networks to fiber the cable industry would have their broadband customers leave in droves when they tried to employ caps. |
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