 SterlingJ85 Obama 2008
join:2000-11-19 Millville, NJ | Am I the only one Who thinks this guy is a complete idiot? -- -Sterling | |
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  SteveCon IBEW 2222 Boston, MA Premium join:2004-09-02 Burlington, MA | Re: Am I the only one +1 | |
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 |  srobmw
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Nobody's going to give up phone/internet unless they face starvation if they don't. | |
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join:2002-10-02 PwnZone | +4
lets keep it going!!! | |
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join:2008-03-18 West Bloomfield, MI | Re: Am I the only one +5 | |
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join:2007-03-26 Floral Park, NY 1 edit | Re: Am I the only one +6 Verizon just upped the dividend and had a great quarter | |
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 |  |  |  |  |  |   David No,there is another. Premium,VIP join:2002-05-30 Granite City, IL clubs: | Re: Am I the only one +7 | |
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He's a moron and the stock investors who listened to him are idiots. | |
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join:2003-08-16 Stratford, CT | Re: Am I the only one +10 This guys a total 'tard. Verizons business is THRIVING in this down economy. Wait till they post their 4th quarter numbers. | |
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join:2005-11-17 Springfield, IL | Re: Am I the only one +11 He is out of his mind to think that the long term investments verizon made aren't smart. | |
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join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX | Re: Am I the only one +17 (you are not alone) | |
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join:2005-09-28 00000
| Re: Am I the only one Most people will give up the higher prices, higher profit plans as times get tight. They may not subscribe to HBO, Showtime, Starz etc but they will subscribe to the lower tiers.
The average non DSLR type user will go for price before speed. | |
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join:2005-09-28 00000
| Re: Am I the only one Wait a minute.... I thought you could only telecommute with 100Mbps Symmetrical FIOS.
My wife was laid off and we decided to cut back on the movie channels and go from 10Mbps DSL to 2Mbps DSL because we don't HAVE to have that. I am on call 24x7x365 and sometimes I have to telecommute out side of normal business hours. I can and maintain a couple of remote desktop sessions and terminal sessions to routers and switches and talk on my VoIP phone using a 2Mb DSL circuit. I don't worry about big download, I've got 100Mbps (Not a consumer class circuit) at the office | |
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join:2007-11-11 Fredonia, NY
| I wouldn't say nobody. 
I dumped cable, internet, voip, and took up a Tracfone $10/month value plan. I didn't face starvation. I just realized how much money I was throwing away in order to have them in a time when gasoline was skyrocketing, food was going up, and natural gas was getting ever more expensive.
Almost everyone is going to buy tv, internet, and/or phone, most people need at least one of them, but the industry has to at least expect a slowdown in a recession. Less people signing up. Some dropping service altogether. Some looking for less expensive plans. Some looking for less expensive - less inclusive plans. | |
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 b10010011 Whats a Posting tag?
join:2004-09-07 Bellingham, WA | Who's the bigger idiot?
This guy?
Or the people who read what he says and dump their stock causing these companies stocks to plummet? | |
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 |   iansltx_
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| Re: Am I the only one I'd but VZ now but I gotta pay bills. Maybe in a bit.
One thing's for sure: I'll take Verizon FiOS over U-Verse, and Verizon DSL over ATT DSL. Both telcos are rather lame in their wireless offerings, but Verizon seems more progressive than ATT, and their wireless customer base, which has a high ARPU, will soon be the largest in the US. And FiOS is priced higher than UVerse because services provided are better, at least for the internet. I'll pay 70 for 20/20 fiber over 65 for 18/1.5 that degrades if youzre online.
Verizon never has to upgrade their last mile ever again, ATT does...and copper degrades much quicker than fiber.
Verizon and ATT both have internet backbones, so I'd call it a wash there. But Verizon is piping that backbone to customers with FiOS to a much larger extent than ATT is. And ATT is capping. Verizon all the way. Short T for all it's worth (*shrugs* not much). iPhone schmiPhone. It's a premium product that has to be heavily subsidized, and the ARPU minimum is so high that people will be turned off. Wireless and very high speed internet are the growth areas...plus triple play if you're good enough at all three plays. Verizon is coming out with VoIP soon, with tons of features. So they win. | |
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join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
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1 edit | Re: Am I the only one Pretty much... Verizon (and Verizon wireless) are a bit more agressive as a company than AT&T is.
POTS: Both rape customers for it DSL: AT&T is definately cheaper, and cheaper to bundle Video: VZ has a more desirable product from a customer standpoint. AT&T 'may' have a decent product, but has restricted itself by assuming that nobody has more than 1 HD set (or more than 1 HD set running at a time). This will haunt them in the future. Internet: VZ with FiOS is the better product...period. Uverse is capped by the last mile. Wireless: Varies by area. VZ has sold itself as a superior product, but is also a walled garden. AT&T 3G network isn't complete, but has potential as it has a simpler upgrade to LTE than VZW does.
In general, IMO, AT&T has stuck its neck out less, and has less debt to hang out to deploy Uverse... but then will have to keep updating it. VZ, on the otherhand, has more risk, but should be able to come out without significant upgrades to infrastructure once FiOS is deployed.
Both have decent stock values. Want to see 'poor' look at either Sprint or Qwest.
»finance.yahoo.com/q/co?s=T | |
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join:2006-12-28 Saint Louis, MO
| Re: Am I the only one Reading these boards is very entertaining. People speak like experts when it so happens they have no idea what they are talking about. I prefer making sure I have my facts correct before posting on a website.
Currently, all my services are with ATT (Home phone, internet, TV and Wireless). Besides home phone I have the premium packages for everything else.
Internet-18mbps down/1.5mbps up TV-U400 (89 HD stations) (2HD/2SD streams at one time) Wireless- iphone unlimited talk and data
All things added up brings my monthly service bill to just north of $300...
WHile you all rip att about the last mile you fail to realize that they are milking the copper for all its worth. TO be honest, it wouldn't suprise me if in 2 or 3 years ATT to announce that a majority of the last mile has been replaced with fiber. | |
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join:2007-11-11 Fredonia, NY
| Re: Am I the only one You and I live in different worlds. 
Just north of $300/month is my mortgage.
I can see where $300+ may seem small to someone living in areas of California where median home prices are half a million dollars and their incomes are substantial. In my world, it's crazy money to be spending on phone and a wire attached to the side of my home. | |
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join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA
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| Re: Am I the only one I agree.... and $300/month for that service is more than 3x what I pay for service... and I think that what I pay is still too much. Of course, I'd love a $300/month mortgage... I have nieghbors paying $3000/month mortgage (and going into foreclosure) -- Canada = Hollywood North | |
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join:2001-02-14 Brooklyn, NY
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| said by STLresident :Reading these boards is very entertaining. People speak like experts when it so happens they have no idea what they are talking about. I prefer making sure I have my facts correct before posting on a website. Currently, all my services are with ATT (Home phone, internet, TV and Wireless). Besides home phone I have the premium packages for everything else. Internet-18mbps down/1.5mbps up TV-U400 (89 HD stations) (2HD/2SD streams at one time) Wireless- iphone unlimited talk and data All things added up brings my monthly service bill to just north of $300... WHile you all rip att about the last mile you fail to realize that they are milking the copper for all its worth. TO be honest, it wouldn't suprise me if in 2 or 3 years ATT to announce that a majority of the last mile has been replaced with fiber. ROFLMAO, look who's talking about not having any idea... 
It's always funny when some clueless dude talks about others not having a clue... and he claims idiocies like 89 "HD" stations etc... 
...wake up, kid - you're clueless. Your so-called "HD" channels usually SD upconverted to 1280x1080i@low Mbit...
...unlimited iPhone data, ummmm, suuuuure...
...STFU and listen first, that's my advice to you, kid.  -- [BQUOTE=[user=bicker]]Waaaa waaaa waaaa. You just want what you want and don't care to factor in what is right or true. Your perspectives are un-American, and deserve far more ridicule than I'm prepared to pile on them. [/BQUOTE] | |
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join:2000-12-22 Bayonne, NJ | said by SterlingJ85 :Who thinks this guy is a complete idiot? +1 | |
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  MysticGogeta The Robot Devil Premium join:2005-03-14 League City, TX clubs: | +11 Great photo. It really shows how much of a schmuck he is. | |
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