dynodb
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join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
1 edit | reply to kyramilan
Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor
What a worthless article; it contains no meaningful specifics but rather relies on the vague ramblings of a retiring competetor and former employee. Of course any article critical of the telcos (unless it involves FIOS) is apparently worthy of Broadband Report's front page. Did a telco truck run over your dog or something Karl?
He's bitter because he lost contracts to Verizon after being unable to meet the terms of the RFP, he's bitter because his company *gasp* had to pay money to lease Verizon's equipment, and that Verizon donated money to schools because it apparently equates to "bribery".
Hell, the rambling old coot still refers to Verizon as "Bell Atlantic". Sounds like his "best used before" date expired some time ago. |
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matrix3D
join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT
| Maybe BECAUSE he's a former employee he has some INSIDE KNOWLEDGE as to how Verizon may actually operate in the area? I find it ridiculous that there are people like you that honestly believe these huge corporations, whether they be cable or telco, actually have the consumers best interests at heart! "Verizon could NEVER actually operate like that!" |
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cableties
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join:2005-01-27
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Here's my take:
Employee realizes that he could leave and make money doing same thing on his own, with information he gained while working there. He may have had fellow workers join him, as they felt they could keep more money, doing same thing, and not be divested/laid-off from BA split.
Then he either told too many, p'od upper management or didn't kiss enough butt while there at BA to make great connections (use me as a sub-contractor and I'll throw back some kick). Instead, he was a threat and could undermine BA (VZ).
"If you can't beat them, join em", history says. By competing and complaining, it was clear that you can't stop a large, lobbying, politico-in-the-pocket machine. How he didn't learn.
First clear mistake: NEVER, EVER put your equipment in another (competitors) rack or CO.
p0wn3d. |
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dynodb
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join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| reply to matrix3D
I hate to break it to you, but the purpose of a company- mom and pop hardware store or large corporation- is to make money.
Verizon makes money providing communication services.
There are other companies that provide those same services.
If Verizon charges too much and/or does a bad job providing those services, they lose customers to the competition.
If they lose customers, they don't make as much money and eventually go broke.
If there's a way to make it simpler for you, I don't know how. I find it ridiculous that people like you believe that every big corporation spends 24 hours a day thinking of new ways how to screw over their customers, the community they live in, their pets and their dead grandparents. Put down your Che Guevera lunchbox and step away. |
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DSLTech
join:2000-12-30
San Jose, CA
| Perhaps you should put down your Economics 101 book?
While life could be as black and white as you portray, only a child would actually blindly believe all economic situations necessarily are simply supply and demand.
There are always politics involved in everything. |
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dynodb
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join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | Yes, politics are involved- but for all the claims of the Big Bad Corporation doing Evil, there don't seem to be a lot of specific examples related to this story, short of grants to schools. |
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