1 edit | Jump from one STUPID idea to another... the NEW at&t (notice small caps for the comapny) is jumping from one STUPID idea to the next.. someday they will look at at&t, the failure like the tobacco industry, broken and overtaxed.. how about a voip line with pots elements (like over-pricing and taxes) hmmm, GOOD IDEA! let's try it, get millions of dollars in advertising and call it jazz..
Really, its not jazz its "azz"inine, except the person who wrote the "zz" was dyslexic...
Probably the jerk who came up with the idea will get a multimillion dollar bonus, too! You can fail and still be a millionaire.. these days, fake your resume and people love you more, drive drunk-- no problem! become the president of the free world! America, land of the hypocracy! We only produce outsourcing, self indulgence, and stupid people. |
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 2kmaroThinkPremium,ExMod 1 BC
join:2000-07-11
ColossalCave | said by jumpfromonne :
We only produce ... self indulgence, and stupid people.
Speaking from experience, are we?
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...then THINK! again!! |
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | reply to jumpfromonne
Yup Bill, you are right. |
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audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI | reply to jumpfromonne
Verizon and The New at&t are coming up with these products because:
1 VoIP is keeping the smaller telcos alive.
2 The big 3 evil Bells are trying to kill VoIP and run the smaller telcos that are providing the facilities for VoIP resellers( Vonage and others) out of business.
3 the FCC dropped the ball by half ruling that VoIP is data so no state regulation but reserved power to rule late if calls starting in VoIP and ending wireless, POTS or VoIP are due more than the ISP rate of $0.0007 per minute for termination fees in the Telco world. So the 3 Bells are trying to charge VoIP Telcos long distance fees for a VoIP call that originate in NY, NY and terminate in Boston. This is coming to a head soon as one of the small Telcos are going to fight the invoices in Federal Court within the next year to force the FCC to complete the ruling. Everyone thought it was going to be AT&T but now they are THE NEW at&t. |
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| With all the marketshare voip has, calls within any one territory will not bankrupt voip companies (even if it were the draconian price of .25 per minute). Only one rboc has the power to compete with voip or anything else that comes down the pike from cable companies, a-la docis, wired or wireless- Verizon. The other rbocs are too disorganized and weak to compete with new -significant- buildouts of broadband-wireless, vdsl, or fiber. Mergers could change this dynamic, but not likely. (bellsouth/qwest linkup? at&t/qwest?, at&t/bellsouth?, who knows)
Market forces will 'override' rboc attempts at QOS and metering division/partition of the internet. This is not to say there won't be significant bumps along the road, or lack of a road/roadmap altogether. Rbocs know this, but can try to shape the path to their liking or waste energy trying to fight against the status-quo (initially the latter). Laggy deployment of dsl is finally a matter of public record. Now that Verizon has the green light for FTTP, the only 'leash' left is the threat of re-regulation (of wired)/deregulation (of wirless). Voip & competitive wired/wireless services will shape the future, the fcc can only hope Verizon and other rbocs 'play nice'.
Not all areas of the U.S.A. are ready for hundreds of megabits of access "per subscriber" on a residental level, and I suspect won't be for at least 10+years (as the market forces are just not 'there'). This is unfortunate. There will be many re-alignments, and I suspect some cable/media companies will merge with robc(s) to create the scale necessary and will meet with resistance (a-la Dubai ports World/Ma-Bell dejavu).
AT&T is stalling for time.. to figure out how to deploy a futureproof network without succumbing to a company identity crisis similar to Time Warner/Aol. Floating different trial-balloons all-the-while. Honestly, how many of these similar press releases have we seen in the past 5 years from the former and new(some would say not improved) AT&T? |
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