| offbase.. This is a bit offbase when taking about Verizon. Yes, while it's true for a while, Verizon has had a corporate culture of anti-technology improvements (well, they ARE a greedy telco, right?) in favor of massive profits. This is slowly changing, and it was the mantra of corporate culture buried deep in the corporation (much of which used to be separate companies). Going back, we're talking about former Ma-Bell entities--primarily GTE and Bell Atlantic (yes the New England region which they want to give up for adoption like a red-headed devilish stepchild). AT&T is another whole ball of wax.. they were the head of the snake not too many decades ago (MA-BELL). Since the breakup (1984) we've seen AT&T try and fail in many areas of technology.. such as providing local & long distance service to residential customers. Only recently has AT&T been allowed back in from the dog house by acquiring companies to get back into the last-mile residential communications. AT&T's plans for developing U-Verse triple play services still hearkens back the the mistakes Verizon's jewel Bell Atlantic made from 1996-2003 (they just don't realize it YET). Verizon should be the first company off this list BECAUSE much of the northeast has gotten a revised deployment schedule of FTTP, and you have to give credit where credit is due. That being said.. it doesn't matter to those who are STILL in 2007 stuck with a crappy cable company OR dialup (parts of Verizon footprint STILL CAN'T GET DSL EVEN NOW!!!, ugh!) Keep in mind, companies upgraded necessary infrastructure to save money and make bigger profits, it's just that the last mile services were NEVER seriously deployed for the most part until 2003)
I don't trust much of the common media to tell the truth now anyway. It's time the poor saps started doing some critical thinking of their own... |
