 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Profits! Like I said, it's all about the profits, not the customer.
LTE Wireless is their reason to ditch their cheap DSL lines and really screw over their customers by charging ridiculously high fees and overages.
Welcome to how it was in the 70's and 80's with long distance.. except it's with data. |
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| O Someone needs to step in here and stop this. All verizon cares about is money, they are canceling dsl service so that people switch over to there retarded lte or high priced cable. If verizon wouldn't repair my dsl service I'd rather go with dial up then pay $200 per month. We are going backwards into the future of broadband. |
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 aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
 ·Verizon FiOS
| said by isp10002:O Someone needs to step in here and stop this. All verizon cares about is money, they are canceling dsl service so that people switch over to there retarded lte or high priced cable. If verizon wouldn't repair my dsl service I'd rather go with dial up then pay $200 per month. We are going backwards into the future of broadband.
Dial Up?? I'll pay $200 before i go back to dial up. I haven't used dialup since 1997 when I first got a cable modem.
I couldn't do anything with dial-up. Even accessing my e-mail wouldn't be possible.(I have dozens of email accounts. So when checking them every ten minutes, Megabytes of data is downloaded eveytime they are checked in the ten minute intervals. |
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Renthal
join:2005-10-16
West Lafayette, IN | Unless you receive multi-megabyte attachments in one or more of your 'dozens' of e-mail accounts every 10 minutes, you aren't downloading megabytes of data. |
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zefie
join:2007-07-18
Hudson, NY | reply to isp10002
You need the copper landline for dial-up as well, so looks like Verizon took that option away too. |
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Most modern email clients just download the subject/from/date until you 'open' the message. |
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Well yah,
Last I checked they weren't a charity? Why would would anyone expect anything else?
Most companies are like that. A customer relationship only works when both parties get something they want. If they're going to lose money by repairing (and there's not enough business to make that money back) theres a complete lack of incentive to do anything about it.
Does that suck? yes? Should anyone be surprised? no. |
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Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT
1 edit | said by zod5000:a) Something and will lose you money
b) Nothing and you don't lose money. ..and that's the reason for the fscked up data infrastructure the U.S. has. No wonder this country is going down the toilet.
I hope the Great Depression happens again soon. Maybe they'll actually wake up, get off their asses, and actually realize it was their fault for the mess we're in. They probably won't care anyway.
EDIT: Or a good-sized solar flare. |
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 FBGuyPremium
join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL | reply to zod5000
competition would fix this entire scenario. |
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Is still like to know what is happening with CLECS AND wholesale lines. |
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Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | reply to zod5000
said by zod5000:Last I checked they weren't a charity? Why would would anyone expect anything else? They're more than willing to take our tax dollars to build their infrastructure, though. I guess they don't have to use their own money when ours is free for the taking. |
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Wooah, lookit the fancy guy, with the dozen email accounts. Back in my day, we had one, on dial up and checked it once a day! |
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 XiodenPremium
join:2008-06-10
Monticello, NY
kudos:1 | reply to ITALIAN926
They're probably invoking an "act of god" line hidden in hundreds of pages of contracts. |
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 tim_kButtons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow, KaseyPremium,VIP
join:2002-02-02
Stewartstown, PA
kudos:25 | reply to Zoidberg
said by Zoidberg :Wooah, lookit the fancy guy, with the dozen email accounts. Back in my day, we had one, on dial up and checked it once a day!
Spammer perhaps?  |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | reply to isp10002
Shouldn't force Verizon to do anything. They'd rightly say, any competitor is free to show up and run their own lines.
Then, when government builds something like that, they will complain. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Ok, just take their spectrum, after all it belongs to the Public trust, and allocate it to said companies who will compete with Verizon.
I'm sure they won't mind that. Oh wait, NM, Verizon & at&t already have the Government doing their bidding, so such things never will happen.
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to Simba7
Honestly, rather then repair the copper infrastructure, how much would it cost to run ONE fiber line to the area to provide service for ATM's, Credit Card machines and Internet for the whole island?
I'm thinking they just want to force people to extremely lucrative capped wireless services, and they don't give a damn about business needs.
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said by Simba7:said by zod5000:a) Something and will lose you money
b) Nothing and you don't lose money. ..and that's the reason for the fscked up data infrastructure the U.S. has. No wonder this country is going down the toilet. I hope the Great Depression happens again soon. Maybe they'll actually wake up, get off their asses, and actually realize it was their fault for the mess we're in. They probably won't care anyway. EDIT: Or a good-sized solar flare. Sadly, that is about what it has come down to. We either NEED another great depression or a flat out civil war to over throw this retarded government we have, plain and simple!
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And that's why someone needs to step in. The idea of giving cable and teleco the duopolies in every state is that they rake in money by economies of scale in the urban areas giving the ability for mass profits to pay for areas that are more spread out. But it's not be regulated properly. So now what these companies are doing is making huge profits (continually price increasing) in the urban areas and instead of using those huge profits to offset they are trying to make even more huge profits of wireless instead in low ROI areas.
And it shouldn't be that way. Someone needs to get control of this for the consumer. If they are going to allow these companies to have duopolies it needs to be regulated better. |
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
kudos:1
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·Verizon Wireless..
·RoadRunner Cable
·AT&T U-Verse
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said by Renthal:Unless you receive multi-megabyte attachments in one or more of your 'dozens' of e-mail accounts every 10 minutes, you aren't downloading megabytes of data.
A few years ago, I noticed my AT&T Wireless usage was over 2.7GB. Fortunately I had an unlimited plan, but I initially couldn't figure out how I could possibly have used so much data. I don't really stream video or audio, and my usage was below 500mb before.
I was in the process of buying a house, so I set my hotmail account to check for new messages via POP3 every 15 minutes. I've had that hotmail account for years so it's got boatloads of junk. Just donwloading the headers repeatedly racked up gigabytes of usage.
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