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join:2002-01-19
Santa Clara, CA | reply to r81984
Re: Remember when ATT was great? As a company ATT was a respectable enterprise for about 40 years.
It started with dubious bankster methods, but was turned into a technology company.
Now little is left, and ATT is degrading into anti technology criminal racketeering enterprise.
More money is spent obstructing infrastructure deployment by others, service levels drop, billing fraud rises.
Elsewhere you see 100M/10M service with streaming video and voice included for what ATT charges for pathetic close to dialup "service". |
 jsinaikoPremium
join:2001-04-25
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Midwest
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Great posts Lev. You were a very good mod too. I miss you and Radio Doc as regulars - and reasonable guys who didn't jump the gun when things got - uh - a little heated.
I don't quite know why anyone misses Big Ed either - he was the one who started the whole "our pipes" thing with a seemingly offhand comment and thus began the fight over "net neutrality."
Eventually (IMO) it's going to take the gummint stepping it and mandating speed and price, at least to some degree in order to promote competitiveness in the global job and education/manufacturing/information markets. How we gonna compete with SOuth Korea if they are offing speeds up to 10X as fast as are easily available here. It changes the entire way one can use the Internet when you get those speeds. A few venal corporate execs have the ability to truncate the US grid in order to maximize profits while minimizing infrastructure build-out and the capital investments that are inherent in that.
In fairness, Seidenberg of Verizon did it to some extent (FIOS) and got clobbered on Wall Street for his trouble in strengthening the grid with its FTTH. So to some degree it's the top corporate bean-counters, who are only concerned with short-term share price, in collusion with the big investment banks, hedge funds, and other Wall Street pirate types vs. the engineers who want to make things stronger, faster, and more efficient and versatile.
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