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Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:08:32 EDT

btop posted : Nor is it our fault that AT&T continues to sign up more users with discounted rates.

Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:49:12 EDT

anon posted : Well, assuming that T is deploying more towers and RAN capacity where these customers are, replacing expensive, slow and unreliable land-line data service with even more expensive, slow, and less reliable wireless data service is not a winning proposition. There are still different needs for both. And while T has been throwing billions at wireless: lobbying the FCC, buying spectrum, building the occasional tower, upgrading from AMPS to TDMA to GSM/GPRS to EDGE to UMTS to HSDPA+ these 12-year-old DSLAMs and modems have remained untouched. And since this is DSLreports.com, not WirelessGaffe.com I think this is very disconcerting. And now T slams the users with consumption caps, how rude!

Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:33:50 EDT

NormanS posted :

said by Bugger :

Twenty three and a half billion... Did they spend this pocket change on FTTH? No?! Did they spend it on expanding U-verse? Not really?! Then what did they spend it on?

I wonder? Did they spend it on AS7018, or AS7132? They own both, but only AS7132 is amenable to FTTH. AS7018 is probably already 100% fiber; but they might have decided they need more core capacity for AS7018 (or more edge capacity for customers, such as Blizzard), over any kind of "Last Mile" fiber for AS7132.
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Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:43:47 EDT

Oh_No posted :

said by footballdude:

said by trish2:

Instead of metering usage, how about AT&T scrap the caps and upgrade the network to exceed demand. It is not the customer's fault you refuse to keep up with demand.

$3 billion if I was a stock holder I would have been pissed since they will eventually have to spend another $3 billion for FTTH.
In this weak economy and after Verizon slowed down installing FTTH it is the best time to get the cheapest prices to run FTTH.
They get a bonus of not needing any lawn fridges.

Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:05:10 EDT

45612019 posted :

said by Bugger :

Twenty three and a half billion... Did they spend this pocket change on FTTH? No?! Did they spend it on expanding U-verse? Not really?! Then what did they spend it on? Wireless?! Well that's fantastic, but it doesn't help the poor souls on ADSL 1.5 Mbps/384 kbps now, does it?

It probably does. I can't think of a better way to roll out faster speeds to a sparse rural area than throwing up some wireless towers.

Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:03:56 EDT

45612019 posted : The network is already keeping up with demand just fine. This has nothing to do with demand on the network and everyone knows it.

Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:54:44 EDT

anon posted : And if they spent it on consumption meters, boy, they'd better get their/investors/my money back, 'cause I sure am not happy with this kind of revelry.

Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:51:07 EDT

anon posted : Twenty three and a half billion... Did they spend this pocket change on FTTH? No?! Did they spend it on expanding U-verse? Not really?! Then what did they spend it on? Wireless?! Well that's fantastic, but it doesn't help the poor souls on ADSL 1.5 Mbps/384 kbps now, does it?

Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:28:56 EDT

footballdude posted :

said by trish2:

Instead of metering usage, how about AT&T scrap the caps and upgrade the network to exceed demand. It is not the customer's fault you refuse to keep up with demand.

According to the AT&T investor relations web site, they spent twenty three billion on network upgrades in 2010. Exactly how much do you propose they should be spending?

It's pretty easy to sit back and say 'make it better', but someone has to pay for that.
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AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:54:01 EDT

trish2 posted : Instead of metering usage, how about AT&T scrap the caps and upgrade the network to exceed demand. It is not the customer's fault you refuse to keep up with demand.