 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | I have to tell you... I couldn't be cheering a decision more. CONGRATS to the Ct. AG..and a Job WELL done by the Ct. DPUC for standing up for what is RIGHT in this state.
I have been absolutely AMAZED at what I have been seeing this company doing in cities and towns around this state in installing these monstrosities whenever and where ever they damn well please.
Refrigerator sized boxes..clamped to telephone polls at STREET level..hanging over side walks.
Refrigerator sized boxes across the driveway from a 1700's historic cemetery of towns founders.
And the list goes on..and on..and on.
And..for WHAT? To deliver a service that people can ALREADY get in various forms..namely cable and satellite service..
and do it in a fashion using decades old technology..namely
twisted pair copper.
This is all for the benefit of NO ONE..except this company...who sued their way..and bullied their way into communities..trying to do it at the lowest cost possible.
I know of a house built in the 1800's...a HISTORIC property built by a VERY prominent family in American History..which now has a VRAD refrigerator sitting on the corner of it now. It is the FIRST thing you see when viewing the property now. You simply don't replace properties like that and it is AMAZING how a box like that will devalue and detract from something.
Imagine coming home and finding one sitting on YOUR front lawn. You would call a tow truck and have it RIPPED from the ground and down the street..and you would be OUTRAGED.
That is what this company is doing to communities with reckless disregard for anyone.
And again..for WHAT? To deliver THIS as a next generation service?
I don't know what..or whom..prompted this kind of action but I can tell you that this company stepped way over the line in this state and I can do nothing but applaud the AG and dpuc for doing what is right.
Residents and municipalities have got to have a say in this or this company will simply do whatever they damn well please.
I am looking forward to seeing some vrads come DOWN..because they will never stand with this ruling now in effect.
After all this time AT&T has managed to scrape together a whopping 300~400k uverse customers. If that isn't a failure of a new service..I don't know what is. People have spoken..
and critics have been right from the start.
AT&T...the message to you is...take down the vrads...
respect the communities you want to serve..
put in the FTTH...
And you will finally have done something right and worthwhile both for yourselves...and the customers you would like to serve.
You will have a next generation..competitive service. And one that is much more accepted and respected...without doing this to communities.
And if you don't..the vrads are going to come down anyway.
Because the dpuc and AG will see to that.
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 RallyBah HumbugPremium
join:2000-10-27
Astoria, NY | 'bout time the gov't did something right. too bad, ATT will appeal and win the decision. |
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RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | said by Rally:'bout time the gov't did something right. too bad, ATT will appeal and win the decision. I highly doubt that. In fact, I think it might spell the end of uverse in this state.
Read this line from the story..
"The decision also requires that AT&T promptly notify and obtain approval from citizens whose properties abut the hundreds of U-Verse service boxes that have already been installed in Connecticut."
Can you imagine a single person who gets that saying that they want the box to stay?
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The sentence is never a full substitute for the paragraph. |
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Also considering Fios TV has the same growth numbers, why do you think it is a failure? |
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AT&T has been installing these all over Tustin and Orange CA this month. I have to remark at the speed at witch the 'lawn fridges' are installed, which is literately dozens over night. Seriously, on my drive to work one day I noticed over 9 strange new AT&T boxes that weren't there the day before. In just that week I found something like 20 new VRAD instillations.
The only question now is, are they going to service my 2 block area (closest boxes are several blocks away in all directions) or skip me again like did for DSL for years? |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Kernersville, NC | reply to bogey780
Shame on you, Bogey, for thinking rational...  |
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RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | Rationale?
Perhaps you and bogey should go read Verizons last press release about the number of new subs they have with fios.
AT&T hasn't even scraped together enough to cover one quarters worth of their lost phone customers.
If this isn't one of the most failed roll outs in corporate history...I don't know what is.
And now the question is..how many will they lose here in this state because of this? AT&T has to now GO BACK and get their permission to keep the boxes there. How many will now say..
get that VRAD out of here?..and how many customers get shut off because of that?
There has been nothing rationale at all about uverse except my warnings that date back to the beginning of this fiasco.
They should NEVER have went with this and should have copied Verizons lead instead.
Now..because they didn't..the politicians, AG's..dpuc's..and people..get to decide it's fate instead.
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to Rick
Ok, OK, we get it. You're a Comcast fan, and want to see U-Verse go away. You can stop now. |
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I keep posting the numbers and you keep ignoring them.
FiosTV had less TV subs than U-verse over the same period of time from public release.
I find it interesting that you talk about your warnings as if anyone from AT&T actually reads your posts. You aren't i the industry, you don't have a telecom background, etc etc... in fact your warnings are completely wrong. Nobody actually heeds your advice. |
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RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
1 edit | Interesting spin you put on the facts.
Instead of comparing FIOS..as a service overall to UVERSE..as a service overall..you'd like to compare fios TV instead.
I guess that's because AT&T's 300k + would pale in comparison to Verizons almost 2 million?
Perhaps the difference is..Verizon actually decided to get licensed as a TV operator before rolling out their service.
Details..details! |
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| You're still shifting the timeframes.
That's like me saying cable telephone is failing because they're millions behind the telcos...ignoring the timeframes.
Fios came out a full year before Uverse. You're always ignoring that. Something I've pointed out before. I don't believe you to be intentionally dishonest... so that leaves one obvious answer as to why you making the same incorrect assertions.
Also Fios internet is a different bird than Uverse. Uverse is a TV product primarily. Fios is a TV product and an internet product. You can get Fios TV seperate from the internet and the internet seperate from the TV. Uverse is a TV product with the internet thrown in. Which is why the speeds mostly mimic the regular DSL offering.
But why am I arguing with you? Everyone knows you'll just ignore what I say and continue railing against Uverse and kissing up to the mods. That's all you do. |
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