DougAustex
@65.248.x.x
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SBC Sucks!
I had a SBC rep stop by today. His business card listed his email address at RoadRunner.com. The old phone system is just that and the tax men and the gov't are all over this. There needs to be a new day and thank God for this judge in Minnesota for having balls of steel. I pay $50 a month in junk fees on my three phone lines at work. Hell, yes! It's time to start over. |
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boogie74
join:2001-06-19
Neenah, WI
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1 edit | said by DougAustex:
I had a SBC rep stop by today. His business card listed his email address at RoadRunner.com. The old phone system is just that and the tax men and the gov't are all over this. There needs to be a new day and thank God for this judge in Minnesota for having balls of steel. I pay $50 a month in junk fees on my three phone lines at work. Hell, yes! It's time to start over.
Are you just trying to slam SBC? Are you just ignorant of the fact that SBC isn't affected by this? Perhaps it hasn't dawned on you yet that SBC doesn't sell service in Minnesota? Or maybe the fact that Roadrunner.com isn't a domain for AOLTW Roadrunner service...
You really sound intelligent posting this... Why not say that you hate General Motors and that a guy that tried to sell you a new Chevy truck drove into work in a car that said "Fred Mustang" on it?? That would be more intelligent...
Of course you should know that- considering that your IP (since you're not even registered) traces back to MCI marketing. Gee... you must be brilliant now! Unless you have controlling stock in MCI, you don't pay a dime for your phone service at work. Of course, your company hasn't paid a dime for anything anyways... Bankruptcy tends to do that... Hope you like working for the biggest accounting fraud in history!
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| Interesting, boogie, that you're trying to pin this on MCI.
Given MCI's investment in circuit-switched technology, MCI stands to lose a lot in the transition to VoIP too. Of course, they may be more capable of handling change than the century old local monopolies....
Calvoiper
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boogie74
join:2001-06-19
Neenah, WI
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| said by calvoiper  :
Interesting, boogie, that you're trying to pin this on MCI.
Given MCI's investment in circuit-switched technology, MCI stands to lose a lot in the transition to VoIP too. Of course, they may be more capable of handling change than the century old local monopolies....
Calvoiper
MCI's investments in telecom are over 50 years old. They toyed around with microwave transmissions in the 50's.
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| Wrong again, Boogie.
The original company of the MCI family, Microwave Communications, Inc., was organized on October 3, 1963, largely as a result of efforts by Jack Goeken, a manufacturer's rep for General Electric 2-way radios. Goeken, who was later known for founding AirPhone, wanted a more practical way for his trucking customers to keep in touch with their trucks between Chicago and St. Louis, and his solution involved microwave circuitry. MaBell managed to delay issuance of the first microwave license until August 13, 1969--typically anti-competitive. So MCI wasn't "toying around" with microwaves in the 50's, nor were they in the 60's, save the last five months. MCI's plant isn't more than 35 years old.*
But so what--either way, it proves my point, which is that MCI has a lot at risk from VoIP incursion, too.
Calvoiper
(*Source is MCI's official history, "The History of MCI: The Early Years" by Cantelon {MCI}. The unofficial history, "On the Line" by Kahaner {Warner Books} agrees with the dates, thought it attributes a much more colorful motivation for the company's founding.)
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