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Re: Amazing.... The problem is there are not enough providers to warrant a change. In many markets, there is a duopoly with very little competition.
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| So ATT's got a few thousand customers (who will get their bill proratted for this) out of millions without service. Give these guys a break. You obviously have forgotten what things were like in the broadbans space for customers 10~15 years ago. It was not pleasant. And there's a reason why things have shaken out the way they have.
The late 90's~early 2000's we had a lot of competition and smaller players that which was rife with customer abuse & fraud as these companies were built, financially speaking, on a house of cards.
CLEC's such as Northpoint & Rhythm's went under, as did most of the DSL providers during this period. Some fraudulently racking up customers CC's before pulling (or sometimes after) the plug. Cable wasn't immune either, remember excite@home? |
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Indeed. My choices are AT&T and Comcast. My Uverse service isn't down, but even if it was, I'd still stay with it. It'll be a very cold day in hell the day I go back to Comcast. |
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You are not looking had enough if you can't find a alternative to uverse. |
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cramer
join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
kudos:7 | reply to JasonOD
Many DSL providers went bust (read: run out of business by ILECs -- they "own" the wire, obviously they can undercut you), others were bought out. In the end, [A]DSL is old technology from beyond the dead. AT&T is clinging to their copper with VDSL, but even that's a dead end in the long run.
Financially... every company has stupid billing problems. Verizon is infamous for it, yet they still have millions of customers across multiple business lines. |
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dagg
join:2001-03-25
Galt, CA | reply to SomeGuy77
not questioning your choice here, i just find humor in the fact that ATT has pissed me off so badly that i will never go back to them and those are the only two choices that i have as well. |
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said by JasonOD :So ATT's got a few thousand customers (who will get their bill proratted for this) out of millions without service. Give these guys a break. Give "AT&T" a break? Ha! Not bloody likely!
said by JasonOD :You obviously have forgotten what things were like in the broadbans space for customers 10~15 years ago.
I most certainly have not, having been somebody that had to switch CLECs twice. (Started with Northpoint, was on Covad when I switched to Comcast. Don't recall who came between the two.) Difference is: Back then the Internet wasn't quite as critical to consumers and businesses as it is today. And "AT&T"s outage is taking phone service with it. Would you be quite so forgiving of "AT&T" if that much of their PSTN went tango-uniform? I bet the FCC and local regulators wouldn't.
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