 jester121Premium
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Lake Zurich, IL
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| Ludicrous A company like AT&T using an excuse like "consistent user experience" to justify their half assed upgrade is pretty comical. How many millions of dollars has this company spent on repainting new names on vans and buildings in the past 7 years?
They'll have gone through at least 4 more mergers or spin-offs by the time Uverse is anywhere close to finished, and will still end up with a hodgepodge system that isn't good for much. |
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| said by jester121: How many millions of dollars has this company spent on repainting new names on vans and buildings in the past 7 years? They'll have gone through at least 4 more mergers or spin-offs by the time Uverse is anywhere close to finished, and will still end up with a hodgepodge system that isn't good for much. You know I have to agree with your point on that one. It cost much money to do a merger. And the money they are spending on commercials and research and trying to make IPTV work on VDSL is crazy.
Note this: The money alone they pay to the last CEO or company officers was crazy BBR noted how much money these guys are getting in bonuses and options. Its insane.
All money that could have been used to further develop and deploy fiber to the home.
Think about it a company as large as ATT is now (SBC) if they were to purchase millions of miles of fiber the cost would go down especially since verizon is buying a butt load of it they could even make a deal with verizon (purchase power) to make the price to the winning bidder (fiber maker) to get the best price due to volume buying. Like the Walmart effect.
China sells cheap fiber and there fiber works.
It would have been smarter to wait till verizon blows some cash and makes mistakes and ATT could learn from them and as we speak the cost of fiber is going down in price as demand rises.
And then why not utilize the mistakes verizon made rolling out FTTH and save themselves the money by doing it right.. and in the end investors happy and customers as well as customers.
And ATT would be in the front of the pack and ready for any type of situation that comes there way and they can blow cable away with fiber to the home.
Give 4 HD streams to each home and 20/20 interenet w/telephone bundle is a synch with FTTH.
Of course. |
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jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Fiber is cheap regardless, it's the labor and equipment to do boring and installation that costs big money. |
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