icp1
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | Where's Comcast Rick?
Oh no, they are going under soon just like Rick said!
Only $3.1 billion in profits and $30 billion in revenues this quarter, sell sell!
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs:
| HMMMMM..if my rough calculation is accurate..their number of Uverse customers added is barely over HALF what they expected.
I seem to recall their stating they expected 10,000 net additions per week?
Do some simple math and you'll see it's just over half that.
126,000 uverse subscribers now
51,000 end of last quarter
Net new subscribers = 75,000
divided by 90 days = 833 new subs. per day
833 x 7 days per wk = 5831 new subs per week.
Watch out for this companies numbers folks.
They really know how to work em to their benefit.
But, they do say this now..
"And our AT&T U-verse TV install rate already approaches our year-end target of 10,000 per week"
WELL HECK FOLKS..even 10 customers a week would APPROACH the 10K per week mark..right?
Also, try as I might..I can't find their number for LOSS of landlines this quarter?
Why don't they highlight that number?
I mean..He**..it's not like they're not a PHONE company..right?
ICP1..crow all you want but the way this company hits their numbers isn't the way they should hit them.
They buy out other companies and pump em up.
Let's talk instead about LOSS of landlines..and how UVERSE is REALLY doing.
After all, isn't that their next generation service?
Folks..would you like the REAL facts?
AT&T right now has 128,000 uverse customers.
That barely equals 1/3rd of the amount of landlines they're losing (or have lost)...PER QUARTER..in the recent past.
After ALL this time..that's what their new next generation service has produced.
And that's with the requirement that people still keep those landlines in order to get DSL service.
I'm telling you..this is the demise of AOL reincarnated.
GROWTH..via ACQUISITION..has been their mantra.
Even their bright spots..namely the partnership with Apple for the iphone..has seen that service come to customers via the slower edge network.
Where is the next generation AT&T that people have come to expect from this company?
Comcast is right..they are turtles.
HOLYCRAP folks..imagine what's going to happen with docsis 3.0 and verizon 20/20 service?
That 128k customers is going to ZERO.That is what.
AT&T..you must..I repeat Must..I repeat MUST..go with FTTH TODAY.
NOW. Right now. make the announcement.
Before it's too late.
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The Coyote captured the RR! Roadrunner Rick is now Comcastic! |
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs:
| WHOA!! WAIT a second folks..Exactly how many landlines is this company losing anyway? Seeing they don't want to break it out for you, let's do it here.
Here's what they say.
"Continued Growth in Consumer Connections. AT&T regional consumer revenue connections (retail access lines, high speed Internet plus video connections) totaled 49.6 million at the end of the third quarter, up 895,000 or 1.8 percent over the past year, and regional consumer revenues grew 0.1 percent. Growth in connections reflects gains in high speed Internet and video over the past year totaling 2.7 million, which more than offset net declines in traditional retail consumer access lines."
Soooo..their NET year over year is up 895,000.
GAINS in other connections have been 2.7 Million offsetting that number.
Does this mean that year over year..they have lost
ONE POINT EIGHT MILLION LANDLINES?
OH yea folks. I think that's EXACTLY what that creative passage means in plain talking folk kind of speak.
Jeesh..I wonder if Uverse and those whopping 833 people joining them everyday last quarter will save them from that?
God. It's worse than I thought.
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here
| reply to icp1
Verizon has almost half a million customers for their TV service. AT&T is keeping pace with them on a launch date perspective with far less being spent.
It seems like from a business perspective, Rick is Rong.
I wonder what his spin will be when AT&T catches and surpasses Verizon's TV numbers? I wonderif it'll be before the reach 1 million or if it will take them to 2 million to pass them? |
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footballdude
Premium
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
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Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama?
It seems like your only reason for having an account here is to make long winded posts blasting AT&T. Over and over and over, etc.
We get it. You don't like 'em.
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tpac_man
join:2007-02-27
Riverbank, CA
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| said by footballdude  :Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama? It seems like your only reason for having an account here is to make long winded posts blasting AT&T. Over and over and over, etc. We get it. You don't like 'em. He must be a Comcast spy!!! |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
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said by footballdude :Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama? It seems like your only reason for having an account here is to make long winded posts blasting AT&T. Over and over and over, etc. We get it. You don't like 'em. Someone should start a website, for example: www.ricksrants.com and post all of his anti at&t rhetoric. Users could vote & rank his drivel according to F.U.D., lies, and comical predictions. |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs: | reply to footballdude
The network i can turst?
How can YOU turst them if there selling your data to the NSA |
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icp1
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to Rick
thanks, wouldn't have been a thread w/o you. 
PS 60-70% of their revenues are now wireless and enterprise data, so your whole "land lines" and "Uverse" descriptions even if accurate, don't mean a whole lot to total revenues anymore... |
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etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
| reply to footballdude
said by footballdude :Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama? ... or worse he was once an at&t customer |
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Neyland
join:2003-02-04
USA
| reply to icp1
quote:
As demand subsides, investors will find AT&T and Verizon "are unmistakably losing share to cable," said Moffett, who rates AT&T shares "market perform" and doesn't own any.
AT&T's Web strategy may fall short |
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs:
| reply to icp1
said by icp1 :thanks, wouldn't have been a thread w/o you. PS 60-70% of their revenues are now wireless and enterprise data, so your whole "land lines" and "Uverse" descriptions even if accurate, don't mean a whole lot to total revenues anymore... Awesome. That's just freaking awesome. Now the nations..or worlds largest phone company is no longer a phone company at all so no one has to worry anymore.
You just made my day!
And, of course you're acknowledging as well that my description is accurate..just like all the "rick" bashers above do with every post they make.
Of course their posts are never about the issues at hand..namely 1.8 million landlines fleeing the last year or the flop that is now totally apparent..called Uverse.
It's all about Rick instead.
Well..too bad that AT&T didn't heed my advice starting a year and half ago.
They'd be sitting right where verizon is instead...and would truly be a world class next generation provider.
And, to Cod and the others above..what you really should be doing instead of attempting to discredit me for simply being the voice of reason....is to bring whatever pressure you can to bear on your employer. And help to show them the way.
Because ...really..they're as lost as lost can be.
The phone company..losing almost 2 million landlines the last year. Good God..that's more than AOL lost dialup customers man.
And Uverse? OMFG.
What a disaster.
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cwh
join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX | So verizon is facing the same problem and even fios is not saving them from competition and technological substitution. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
·AT&T Yahoo
·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Cox HSI
·AT&T Southwest
| reply to icp1
People who text and use data on wireless are getting gouged. It costs very, very little to the providers but they charge mucho dinero for it.
No wonder revenues have soared there.
Until AT&T brings the Fiber to the home tho they will experience issues in their other markets.
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | reply to Neyland
The opinion that ATT will not outperform is a vastly minority position. |
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bky
moof moof
Premium
join:2002-07-05
Austin, TX
| reply to Rick
said by Rick :Awesome. That's just freaking awesome. Now the nations..or worlds largest phone company is no longer a phone company at all so no one has to worry anymore. A wireless phone company is still considered a phone company. |
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