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kudos:3 | reply to fcisler
Re: Unfair Comparison I don't see how this is unfair. Besides, phone doesn't want to play on a level playing field.
Please tell me how many times cable has basically rebuilt their networks? Now tell me how many times phone has rebuilt theirs?
There are always going to be differences in the mediums but in the end it doens't matter. As Joan Crawford once said "No one ever said life would be fair Christina.. I'm bigger and faster and I'll always beat you"...
As said many times before, while phone was asleep at the wheel miling their customer base for all they could, cable was out there looking for something bigger and better. Cable has done what phone SHOULD have done years ago, and didn't. Cable has been looking for ways to deploy more services.. and when they do, it's to their entire city foot print - always has been. Phone? Let's say.. in order to get caller ID or Call waiting, I had to change my phone number becuase my prefix wasn't capable. Instead of 929, I had to get a 928 number. Why? They didn't update their entire network. That went on for about 4 years before 929 was updated with the same equipment.
Fiber has an advantage over cable.. hell, cable uses fiber. But, cable built a pretty good network and has expanded that network MANY times over the last 30 years.. love or hate cable, you have to give them credit for it. And if you don't, then it just shows bias and that's fine for you if you have it.. but the FACT remains) Phone? Same old copper.
Today, we talk about fair, but phone wants to have their cake and eat it too. While phone was secure, cable had to jump through many hoops, take on much cost, and build from the ground up. Now phone is finally seeing the threat.. many of them, instead of improving their CORE service would rather get into video. Why is that? What is phone doing to improve their voice quality and in many areas, their reliability?
I just don't see this issue or story as unfair.. it's just showing some facts. |
