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Re: WARNING: AT&T will cut off your Internet connection if... said by NormanS:said by XBL2009:It's people like you who buy the lies and corporate spin. If they had started in 1994 we would all be wired up with fiber and enjoying superfast connections. You wouldn't need to wait weeks for FTTN you would have fiber in your house now. I am not buying anything like that. I worked for SCS Security in 1997-8. One of our clients was Roseville Telephone Company. I talked with a few of their employees. They were laying a fiber ring; but there was no product to justify the cost of FTTP then. Last I checked, they were bought out by Surewest; probably something about the hole they dug themselves into. Not just for the fiber, but no ROI on it. You still have not answered my question about who gave what to whom? Taxes not collected != money spent by consumers. Capitalism is GREAT but some industries need more help from the feds then others to provide them cover over the short term. Some projects have to be long term deals otherwise they will never get done. How much money have they spent on the airline industry or how many billions spent on building roadways?
As far as whom gave what to whom, the bells were allow to collect fees to help fund the fiber network and also given tax breaks to the tune of $200 billion. They just pocketed the money and never built the network.
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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| said by XBL2009:Capitalism is GREAT but some industries need more help from the feds then others to provide them cover over the short term. That is not true. If an industry can't make it without government funds, it shouldn't make it at all. Although we do have a "tax 'em to deat" mentality which doesn't help matters.
Some projects have to be long term deals otherwise they will never get done. How much money have they spent on the airline industry or how many billions spent on building roadways?
Too much on each; and they stopped spending on railroads when they started spending on highways.
As far as whom gave what to whom, the bells were allow to collect fees to help fund the fiber network and also given tax breaks to the tune of $200 billion. They just pocketed the money and never built the network.
The extras funds that I am aware of, FUSF, were supposed to be used for extending the service into rural areas; so I am told. Don't know of any extra fees to be earmarked for fiber. Taxes are a big problem for all of us; as I said, taxes not collected is not the same thing as money spent by consumers.
I suspect that the politicians of that era (1990-1999) were long on talk, and short on any real ideas. I spoke with an RTC employee sometime in 1997-8 about what they were doing. Lots of fiber being laid, but not to the premises. Too expensive to deploy FTTP, especially when there was no consumer service ready to use it. How much in tax breaks did the feds give to Lucent Technologies, Alcatel, and similar? The companies who would be developing the equipment used on the ends of the fiber? So RTC had a lot of dark fiber in the ground, and nothing to offer their customers.
Our politician tend to focus on things with high visibility to the voters, in order to pander to those voters for vote; but they ignore the rest of it. So our government winds up doing things half-assed; which is usually worse than doing nothing at all. Lots of incentive to lay fiber (which the voters can see as they drive about), none for developing the equipment, protocols, and services to run on that fiber (the voters can't see that stuff; out of sight, out of mind).
Add to that the fact that corporations buy politicians (Louisiana Representative Billy Tauzin was SBC's lapdog in the Congress, while he was in office), and you get screwball propositions which are guaranteed to fail. And we haven't even begun to touch on how to get telecom to pass 100% of the population at a reasonable consumer price.
And do, please, remember the biggest lie of all time: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you". Hear those words and you'd better grab your wallet, or there won't be much left for you to spend.
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That is not true. If an industry can't make it without government funds, it shouldn't make it at all. Although we do have a "tax 'em to deat" mentality which doesn't help matters.
The internet would not exist without the ARPA. In 1967 Larry Roberts at ARPA publishes his plan for the Arpanet, a network to link widepsread government agencies and universities. Most IT tech came from ARPA now called DARPA.
The large bells simply can't wire every home in America with Fiber because the upfront costs are to high and it will take a long time to recoup their money which means it could be 2050 before most people in America see Fiber Installation.
Some industries need startup money and the next generation fiber network to every single home in America will cost Billions that capitalist are not willing to invest in so the feds are needed to get the ball rolling like APRA did with the internet and I believe that worked out rather nicely.
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| This is very interesting and funny.
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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said by XBL2009: quote:
That is not true. If an industry can't make it without government funds, it shouldn't make it at all. Although we do have a "tax 'em to deat" mentality which doesn't help matters.
The internet would not exist without the ARPA... Some industries need startup money and the next generation fiber network to every single home in America will cost Billions that capitalist are not willing to invest in so the feds are needed to get the ball rolling like APRA did with the internet and I believe that worked out rather nicely. The ARPANet was not started in order to create the Internet, and wire up everybody in the world. If Al Gore hadn't pushed his "Internet initiative" through the Congress, ARPANet would still exist for its intended purpose.
The ARPANet was created solely to allow for defense research collaboration between Universities and defense contractors.
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The ARPANet was not started in order to create the Internet, and wire up everybody in the world. If Al Gore hadn't pushed his "Internet initiative" through the Congress, ARPANet would still exist for its intended purpose.
The ARPANet was created solely to allow for defense research collaboration between Universities and defense contractors.
Exactly my point, if everyone's home is wired up with fiber for the sole purpose of just being wired up what will it morph into and how much will the payoff be ?
One can only imagine the new technologies that can only exist on a nationwide fiber network.
Like ARPAnet becoming the internet which took government involvement, it will take government involvement for copperNET to become fiberNET.
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We'd still be on two-lane roads with out the Interstates.
Furthermore, most basic research that eventually turns stuff into medicine or consumer products (or technology) is funded in some way by the Feds.
The idea that private enterprise created everything, and that government traditionally doesn't cover R & D is an easily disprovable myth.
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said by XBL2009:Exactly my point, if everyone's home is wired up with fiber for the sole purpose of just being wired up what will it morph into and how much will the payoff be ? The idea that private enterprise created everything, and that government traditionally doesn't cover R & D is an easily disprovable myth.
So the government should just pay for stuff because it might be useful someday. Where do you suppose the government gets all of that money? I refuse to build pyramids for our government!
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| said by NormanS:said by XBL2009:Exactly my point, if everyone's home is wired up with fiber for the sole purpose of just being wired up what will it morph into and how much will the payoff be ? The idea that private enterprise created everything, and that government traditionally doesn't cover R & D is an easily disprovable myth.
So the government should just pay for stuff because it will be useful someday. I made a correction for, it's in bold.
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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| said by XBL2009:I made a correction for, it's in bold. Presumptuous, aren't you; but you are wrong. You might want to read your U.S. Constitution very carefully.
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| said by NormanS:said by XBL2009:I made a correction for, it's in bold. Presumptuous, aren't you; but you are wrong. You might want to read your U.S. Constitution very carefully. Yes because they abide the Constitution with invasions of other coutries illegally, income tax, welfare, social security and whatever else they decide to do.
To be or not to be that is the question, with federal funds a nationwide fiber network becomes a reality and we will all benefit from it. It's better then spending $800 billion on a war that has benefited no one.
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NormanSPremium,MVM
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| said by XBL2009:...with federal funds a nationwide fiber network becomes a reality and we will all benefit from it. It's better then spending $800 billion on a war that has benefited no one. Fine. Let's revise the tax code:
"How much money did you make last year. Send it all in."
We need to change over to a system of government which gives us everything we think we need in exchange for our souls. "GODvernment", if you will.
This has gotten a long way toward a religious debate from the thread topic. You can be a Communist, if you like; I don't care. I just refuse to participate in your "Great Society".
Now, as for the topic: When has AT&T ever cut off service to a complainer?
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3 edits | They cut my Grandmother off 2 days ago for complaining about the phone always being full of static. She had them out 10 times and never resolved th issue and complained way to much. In fact this is a practice of Sprint with their customers. If you would go back a couple of months it made the news. People calling in all the time complaining about dropped calls. Sprint then after to many complaints ended their contract and said good bye. So it does happen buddy and you need to get out of the la la land you live in. If you thinks companies can't or wont's do these things all I can say is come out from under the rock you live under and jump back into reality.
Now did this happen to my Grandma well it may have but I do not need someone coming after me for saying that. So I will say it could have and I just don't need the Gestapo at my door. Yes the Gestapo and AT&T works right along side them and even with Bush so they can spy on the country.
Proof is here and looks like a one world order in the telecom business.
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Sorry for throwing politics in their but that's just what it is and should be looked at it that way. Gestapo would put you in jail if you complained and at&t just cuts you off. Modern day tactics is how I see it. |
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| They cut my Grandmother off 2 days ago for complaining about the phone always being full of static. She had them out 10 times and never resolved th issue and complained way to much. This seems more a case of cutting of a customer that costs more than be recovered with service fees, rather than cutting of somebody for exercising their freedom of speech. |
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said by SkullCracker0:They cut my Grandmother off 2 days ago for complaining about the phone always being full of static. I am willing to bet that she was not complaining to a public forum that "Sprint sucks", but complaining to Sprint repair that the line wasn't fixed. I don't know how many truck rolls it would take AT&T to consider an account as unserviceable; but they must have rolled 10 times, in two and a half weeks, trying to hunt down the cause of static on my line. That was back when it was still called, "SBC"; and the line was fixed on the last truck roll.
She had them out 10 times and never resolved th issue and complained way to much. In fact this is a practice of Sprint with their customers. If you would go back a couple of months it made the news. People calling in all the time complaining about dropped calls. Sprint then after to many complaints ended their contract and said good bye. So it does happen buddy and you need to get out of the la la land you live in.
Cutting service when a company can't afford to keep trying to fix a problem isn't the same as cutting service for libelous comments. Complaining to repair is not the same thing as complaining that the service is still broken after ten truck rolls.
If you thinks companies can't or wont's do these things all I can say is come out from under the rock you live under and jump back into reality.
I am a part of the "reality" you speak of; I tossed two people from a public retail establishment myself. Not for slander, but for a valid cause.
Now did this happen to my Grandma well it may have but I do not need someone coming after me for saying that. So I will say it could have and I just don't need the Gestapo at my door. Yes the Gestapo and AT&T works right along side them and even with Bush so they can spy on the country.
The event you described was not about "damaging the reputation of Sprint", it was about a customer whose service calls were costing more than the company was collecting in revenues.
Sorry for throwing politics in their but that's just what it is and should be looked at it that way. Gestapo would put you in jail if you complained and at&t just cuts you off. Modern day tactics is how I see it.
You aren't alone; I let my self get onto a political sidetrack, as well. Probably can't be helped, though; just the concept of cutting of service for libelous statements intersects with politics.
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