bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
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Re: Too much spent? said by RJ44:said by technick:Hell Bellsouth is not interested in innovation, and trying to be on the bleeding edge of technology, all they care about is how much money they can bank from customers... ROFL! They're a business, not a research facility. What do you expect them to be interested in if not profitability? They are profitable... It would be nice if they reinvested a majority of those profits into an upgraded network... You know, invest in tomorrow. They want to compete in video, but with the solutions they are going with, its not going to happen unless they take a profit margin hit at some point. You can't eat you cake (have huge profit margins) and eat it too (build a next-gen network).
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RJ44
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Nashville, TN | said by bmn:said by RJ44:said by technick:Hell Bellsouth is not interested in innovation, and trying to be on the bleeding edge of technology, all they care about is how much money they can bank from customers... ROFL! They're a business, not a research facility. What do you expect them to be interested in if not profitability? They are profitable... It would be nice if they reinvested a majority of those profits into an upgraded network... You know, invest in tomorrow. They want to compete in video, but with the solutions they are going with, its not going to happen unless they take a profit margin hit at some point. You can't eat you cake (have huge profit margins) and eat it too (build a next-gen network). From their 3rd quarter financial statement here:
»www.bellsouth.com/investor/ir_financial.html
BellSouth has spent $2.465 Billion dollars through the 3rd quarter of this year on capital investments. This compares to $2.134 Billion on capital investments through the same period in 2004, an increase of 15.5%.
Check it out, you might even change your mind.
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1 edit | said by RJ44:From their 3rd quarter financial statement here: » www.bellsouth.com/investor/ir_financial.htmlBellSouth has spent $2.465 Billion dollars through the 3rd quarter of this year on capital investments. This compares to $2.134 Billion on capital investments through the same period in 2004, an increase of 15.5%. Check it out, you might even change your mind. RJ Okay... Interesting... I curious as to what the CAPEX are going toward though. Bellsouth is getting killed in the arena of the last mile network by Cox in this area (in every aspect except reliability). Verizon seems to be the only one really getting on the bus with trying to keep ahead of the MSOs with respect to their last mile network.
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Lawrenceville, GA | reply to RJ44
That 15.5% + another 10% was for fighting off muni broadband. |
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RJ44
join:2001-10-19
Nashville, TN | said by Newegg:That 15.5% + another 10% was for fighting off muni broadband. No, that 10% would fall under Operating Expenses, not Capital  |
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL | reply to RJ44
It's an improvement but that's still way down from 2000 and 2001 when they were spending over $5 billion a year on capex. |
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