notjasonmca
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This is exactly why I own GOOGLE stock....
You lack of vision is shared with that of AT&T: Failure to have anticipated the ad-revenue stream lost from slower traditional models.
Google's search engine has more information than phone books ever did. AT&T (as well as US West, Former BellAtlantic now Verizon...) took the wrong approach to the internet (controlling the lines, they never knew what hit them).
So now, I'm happy with Google and its +$400/share...vs $23 for ATT (I doubt your dividends will compare to GOOG $568/shr) |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
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| You do realize that stock price alone is pretty much irrelevent. What's important is growth and dividends. For the price of AT&T a person could buy a certain amount of google stock and in relation to that the difference between dividend comes into play.
FWIW... people get ticked about AT&T helping the gov't collect data meanwhile Google dumped it's search queries out into the open and regularly help the Chinese gov't censor dissidents. |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
 ·Comcast
| This is exactly why stock prices are holding down any productive thinking when it comes to a national broadband policy. Companies are so worried about the bottom line at any given moment that they won't do anything to benefit the collective masses. Look at Verizon...a broadband vision through fiber that pisses off stockholders because of the price it costs to upgrade their network. Now Look at ATT, shoveling crap on 100 year old copper. The only reason they got into the tv business is because of the digital conversion and they have lobbiests in place. But hey, their stock price is holding....
So when you see a story about 100mbps service in Korea or wherever, know you won't see it anytime soon because people are worried about the current stock price!
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
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| You're an engineer, right?
Then you must realize that you can't make something from nothing. Investors invest because they expect a return on their money. When you screw them over you stop getting investors.
Or we could always go the socialist route and make people pay for fiber to the house under threat of arrest. |
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join:2004-10-04
Loveland, CO
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·Comcast Formerly ..
| Don't we already pay a ton of money in taxes on our phone bill for "universal service?" Why is phone service one of the most heavily taxed things you can purchase in this country?
I say we are already paying for fiber deployment, and the money is getting pissed away like only Washington bureaucrats can piss away money.
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | You pay like a buck or two a month for universal service. And the people of Mink, Louisiana thank you for subsidizing their $47,000 per line telphone cost. |
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