 lml2000Whazzup
join:2000-08-17
Los Angeles, CA | reply to looser
Re: The truth will come out.... said by looser:
Before Pacbell became SBC we were putting in all the nodes and amp's in the new Developments. Lucent was working with Pacbell with all the hardware end of things, then the minute we became SBC the broadband unit of Pacbell was done away with, and all the new equipment we put in was ripped up and either thrown away (yes i said thrown away) or returned.
Appreciate you comments, but I think you might have the cart before the horse. I think SBC came in and bought Pacific Telesis after it had "squandered" investor capital by trying to push video over copper perhaps a bit too early before its time. From the engineers I've spoken with on the effort launched a decade ago it was just too expensive, and they ran into too much resistance at the local level, much as they are running into similar resistance in some cities today. So, in short, by the time SBC took over Pacific Telesis, the holding company of PacBell, the writing was already on the wall regarding the effort launched a decade ago. |
looser
join:2001-02-04
La Mesa, CA | That very well could be true. Perhaps PB did blow it by jumping on the latest and greatest bandwagon, and SBC seen that and said enough is enough, why feed a dead horse. I know that also one of the other things is that if that equipment is up on the poles or in the ground it's taxed, and taxed heavily. So at the time, the goods is there before the customer, and if subscription is slow why pay all that city, county, state, and federal taxes.
There is so many people to blame in this mess it's crazy. Political, corporate, all the way down to the lame suppliers, who wonder why there stock prices are down (give out product now pay later) caught up with them. |
