2cents
@attbi.com
| Comes down to tough decisions
AT&T has had to prioritize which systems it is going to upgrade first. Where is the highest demand for new services like digital cable, high speed data and cable telephone service? Where is the highest return on system upgrade investment the most likely.
AT&T can't do it all at once. The costs are just too high.
Maybe AT&T is guilty of biting off more than it could chew when it went on cable buying binges. However, can all see that people want these services...the demand is there! |
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radougherty
join:1999-07-23
Austin, TX
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| said by 2cents:
AT&T can't do it all at once. The costs are just too high.
Gee, AT&T seem to be able to find the money to go out and buy how many different cable companies? But now when it's time to upgrade the systems there's no money to be found anywhere. It will probably get worst if the AT&T/Comcast merger goes through since now there's even more debt that must be paid off and even less money for upgrades, except when it comes to a golden parachute for some exec that isn't needed after the merger. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to 2cents
Ha. It would be nice if they just made a decision. Any decision. They haven't put a dime in the systems around here since they bought them except to add digital cable that sometimes works and delete analog channels (without lowering the monthly bill). We barely have cable TV and of course they blame the prior system operator (Centel originally, then Jones, then TCI) whom they bought the rats nest from. I guess "due diligence" isn't in their vocabulary.
We suffer through weekly outages, bad reception, cross-modulation interference due to improperly operated equipment, wildly varying channel signal levels, audio levels all over the place (I measured two adjacent channels at 16 db difference), EAS rule noncompliance, miserably out-of-spec signal-to-noise. The list goes on and on.
If they can't afford to fix it, then the decision should be to get off the pot and quit lying about their plans and abilities. Cable modem service is the least of their problems in the Chicago market. |
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