texans20
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More and more people are dropping their landline phones, or switching over to VoIP solutions that offer the same product AT&T has offered for damn near 100 years at a cheaper rate. I expect to see AT&T's landline operations continue to shrink yet their wireless and broadband services should grow. Now, if only they would look to the future instead of looking to next quarter, they would be set. Verizon sees the big picture with FIOS, AT&T just wants to please investors. I believe this will hurt AT&T in the next ten years as they will be one step behind Verizon's superior offerings.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | But being behind Verizon doesn't matter to at&t- don't forget, it's too expensive for the telcos to try to compete against each other. |
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bobgwen
join:2001-07-07
Bartow, FL
 ·Comcast
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The only reason I see keeping a landline phone is for power outages. I went through hurricane wilma and lost all utilities except for my landline phone. Cable, water, power, cell service and DSL. But I still had my home phone. It was with bellsouth and I was amazed it still worked. Also another reason is how would you fax something through anything but a landline? |
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kcir
join:2005-07-30
Butner, NC
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I hear this line brought up again and again: when Verizon get's it's FIOS fully deployed the legacy telcos (AT&T) will really suffer to Verizon's superior offerings. Hello out there who really has a choice ? Does anyone really have the option of saying no to AT+T DSL/pots because I just chose Verizon's FIOS ? Now I can understand where Cable may have better offerings and continue to pull more and more away from legacy (copper) based telcos. |
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bobgwen
join:2001-07-07
Bartow, FL
·Comcast
| I believe Verizon is a legacy telephone company and I don't see them deploying their fios all over the place. They are just gonna pick and choose. Do you really think verizon will run fiber everywhere? I'll believe it it when I see it. I am in verizon territory in a new neighborhood (used to be an orange grove) and I was told it ain't even on the drawing board yet to bring it here. And I just don't see them stringing fiber all over my town of Bartow anytime soon. I wish they would. |
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fatmanskinny
Premium
join:2004-01-04
Atlanta, GA | reply to bobgwen
I can fax over Comcast Digital Voice because Comcast gives you a dial tone. |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
·Cox HSI
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·Skype
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I can fax over COX Digital Voice. I get a DIGITAL dialtone NOT an analog one like with AT&T.
If Cell would offer truly unlimited and work everywhere except where it likes, I'd probably dump all home phone service. In the age of PDF, why exactly are faxes needed anymore? I PDF 100 times the number of faxes.
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