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Re: Comcast is scared.... said by Rick:You fail to consider how allowing them entry could in fact raise prices higher than normal in time. That could happen in one of two ways. First..if you allow another company to simply cherry pick the highest ROI customers..you create an imbalance that saddles Comcast with the rest. Who gets to pay for that in the form of higher prices? All the rest. Secondly, we've all seen the news of verizons massive loss of landlines and dsl customers. There is NOTHING conducive in that which will allow verizon to be particularly price competitive in the years ahead and if anything..due to the high cost of the rollout itself..could cause them to RAISE prices higher than normal. What might comcasts move then have to be? To do the same because all verizon would have done is to cannibalize customers who otherwise might have allowed them to keep prices lower. Only you could find a way to say that increased competition raises prices 
DSL has lost customers, some of their DSL customers have gone to FiOS. As far as landlines, many people are going wireless. If only Verizon could become the top dog in wireless. Oh wait, they are.
Now, since you raise cost issues, you do realize that the cost of rollout has dropped substantially? And if you were correct, why haven't their prices risen like you are saying they should where they have already deployed? |
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f only Verizon could become the top dog in wireless. Oh wait, they are.
Only by buying Alltel. Before that the top dog was AT&T. And Verizon's wireless is the NOTwork. They do have a good ad department though. |
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| reply to MrSpock29
Their not the #1 largest carrier in America YET! deal has to be finished before that can be claimed.
But that will only be for a short time until the new Admin. says that all the telco's and cell phone companies are too big and split them all up and make them shed their cell phone business off.
Part of this merger should have been agreed that they keep the Alltel employees too which Toledo/Maumee knows we'll have more laid off people here due VZ will close the Toledo Market Corp. Office. |
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| said by hottboiinnc:Their not the #1 largest carrier in America YET! deal has to be finished before that can be claimed. But that will only be for a short time until the new Admin. says that all the telco's and cell phone companies are too big and split them all up and make them shed their cell phone business off. Part of this merger should have been agreed that they keep the Alltel employees too which Toledo/Maumee knows we'll have more laid off people here due VZ will close the Toledo Market Corp. Office. Its a business.
Right now in this country we need to trim the fat and let the muscle do the lifting. And these businesses are starting to do this.
You can't be so greedy and force them to keep people around.
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| yah you can.
Anyone remember the VZW and Cell One Merger of Ohio? BAD MOVE! Alltel VZ merger is going to be another. Cingular and ATT was a bad move...customers treated like 2nd rate citizens by the carriers.
VZW up here in Toledo already is treating their customers like shit. I just heard a story tonight about a lady was 2 days late paying her bill called and talked to the Dublin Ohio call center and said it would be fine and they would put it in...went into pay her bill and upgrade her phone and they made the remark in a STORE OWNED BY VZW that how can she afford a new phone if she couldnt pay her bill by the due date. that was flat our rude and something should have been done but will most likely be done.
But That's what happens when mergers go and the good people are tossed out at the assholes are kept. And the companies wonder why shit happens just like Spent and Nextel. good employees from Nextel are let go and everything goes to Sprint's brand CSRs treat you like shit and Tech support isnt any better. Hell their own stores will tell you to leave if you tell them that its none of their business you want something done on your plan when they question why you want to add items. |
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| reply to itguy05
Oh? What problems did you have with VZW?
I'm a former INpulse customer that had no problems (I don't use INpulse now due to reasons unrelated to the service), and my Mom's been a VZW customer for years. I'd taken the phone on trips (I had originally bought it for a four-night/five-day vacation in Las Vegas, which is smack dab in Sprint's front yard; it would work even where Sprint's own phones would not) and never had it fail.
Never had a problem calling other VZW phones. Never had a problem calling landlines. The only times I had a problem calling another (non-VZW) cell phone was due to holes in the other carrier's network (Sprint and AT&T were the only non-VZW cell carriers I tried to call).
Roaming charges? Never got whacked with roaming charges (not even in Las Vegas). SO, again, I have to ask; what were your problems with VZW? |
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