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Rick
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Re: Where's Comcast Rick?

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!

Rick
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Re: Where's Comcast Rick?

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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The Coyote captured the RR! Roadrunner Rick is now Comcastic!

icp1
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Saint Louis, MO
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Re: Where's Comcast 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...

Neyland

join:2003-02-04
USA

Re: Where's Comcast Rick?

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
bogey780

join:2004-03-19
Here

Re: Where's Comcast Rick?

The opinion that ATT will not outperform is a vastly minority position.

Rick
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Waterbury, CT
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said by icp1 See Profile :

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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The Coyote captured the RR! Roadrunner Rick is now Comcastic!
cwh

join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX

Re: Where's Comcast Rick?

So verizon is facing the same problem and even fios is not saving them from competition and technological substitution.

bky
moof moof
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Austin, TX

said by Rick See Profile :

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.

footballdude
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join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO

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
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Re: Where's Comcast Rick?

said by footballdude See Profile :

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!!!
Cod

join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC


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said by footballdude See Profile :

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.

Anonymous_
Anonymous
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The network i can turst?

How can YOU turst them if there selling your data to the NSA
etaadmin

join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX

said by footballdude See Profile :

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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