bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Covington, LA | reply to Rob
Re: AT&T has big plans for U-Verse
yea...they're only a couple hundred thousand behind Verizon at only a fraction of the cost. What are they thinking?! |
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Rob
In Deo speramus
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join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
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| said by bogey780  :yea...they're only a couple hundred thousand behind Verizon at only a fraction of the cost. What are they thinking?! Come on bogey....
Verizon services 1.3 Million FiOS customers, and 700,000+ FiOSTV customers. |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Covington, LA | And when Verizon was at 500k TV customers, AT&T was at 39k. It's not like AT&T has been doing this for years. |
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Rob
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| said by bogey780 :And when Verizon was at 500k TV customers, AT&T was at 39k. It's not like AT&T has been doing this for years. Nobody said that. But "a couple hundred thousand behind Verizon at only a fraction of the cost" is typical AT&T talk for "We're way behind, but our investors are happy with that we're "upgrading" but at our own slow pace".
Let's be realistic here. They want to pass 30 million homes by 2010? We're entering 2008 now. They are going to really need to start dishing out a ton of cash. Unlike Verizon who manages to handle their upset investors, AT&T does everything to please them..
I have a feeling that in 2010, AT&T will come forward and say that their 30 million mark is a little behind, or in their terms "only a couple hundred thousand behind Verizon", and the real numbers will be nowhere near the 30 million mark. |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Covington, LA
| The architecture is different requiring different outlays. A slow initial growth is about expected. It's once the groundwork is placed that growth can take off.
The schedules they have and have distributed cover large areas... it's just it takes about a year for conditioning to occur and new crews to be trained for installing. So you're going to see geometric growth in customers. |
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Rob
In Deo speramus
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join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
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·AT&T Southeast
| said by bogey780 :The architecture is different requiring different outlays. A slow initial growth is about expected. It's once the groundwork is placed that growth can take off. The schedules they have and have distributed cover large areas... it's just it takes about a year for conditioning to occur and new crews to be trained for installing. So you're going to see geometric growth in customers. I wish I had as much faith in AT&T as you do... |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Covington, LA | Faith is something a person has when they don't know the reasoning or factors at work.
The only thing I should have "faith" in is AT&T meeting it's sign-up goals. As far as deployment, I'm pretty sure I'll get it when I figure I will. |
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