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Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | Where's Comcast Rick? Oh no, they are going under soon just like Rick said!
Only $3.1 billion in profits and $30 billion in revenues this quarter, sell sell!
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs:
| Re: Where's Comcast Rick? HMMMMM..if my rough calculation is accurate..their number of Uverse customers added is barely over HALF what they expected.
I seem to recall their stating they expected 10,000 net additions per week?
Do some simple math and you'll see it's just over half that.
126,000 uverse subscribers now
51,000 end of last quarter
Net new subscribers = 75,000
divided by 90 days = 833 new subs. per day
833 x 7 days per wk = 5831 new subs per week.
Watch out for this companies numbers folks.
They really know how to work em to their benefit.
But, they do say this now..
"And our AT&T U-verse TV install rate already approaches our year-end target of 10,000 per week"
WELL HECK FOLKS..even 10 customers a week would APPROACH the 10K per week mark..right?
Also, try as I might..I can't find their number for LOSS of landlines this quarter?
Why don't they highlight that number?
I mean..He**..it's not like they're not a PHONE company..right?
ICP1..crow all you want but the way this company hits their numbers isn't the way they should hit them.
They buy out other companies and pump em up.
Let's talk instead about LOSS of landlines..and how UVERSE is REALLY doing.
After all, isn't that their next generation service?
Folks..would you like the REAL facts?
AT&T right now has 128,000 uverse customers.
That barely equals 1/3rd of the amount of landlines they're losing (or have lost)...PER QUARTER..in the recent past.
After ALL this time..that's what their new next generation service has produced.
And that's with the requirement that people still keep those landlines in order to get DSL service.
I'm telling you..this is the demise of AOL reincarnated.
GROWTH..via ACQUISITION..has been their mantra.
Even their bright spots..namely the partnership with Apple for the iphone..has seen that service come to customers via the slower edge network.
Where is the next generation AT&T that people have come to expect from this company?
Comcast is right..they are turtles.
HOLYCRAP folks..imagine what's going to happen with docsis 3.0 and verizon 20/20 service?
That 128k customers is going to ZERO.That is what.
AT&T..you must..I repeat Must..I repeat MUST..go with FTTH TODAY.
NOW. Right now. make the announcement.
Before it's too late.
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs:
| Re: Where's Comcast Rick? WHOA!! WAIT a second folks..Exactly how many landlines is this company losing anyway? Seeing they don't want to break it out for you, let's do it here.
Here's what they say.
"Continued Growth in Consumer Connections. AT&T regional consumer revenue connections (retail access lines, high speed Internet plus video connections) totaled 49.6 million at the end of the third quarter, up 895,000 or 1.8 percent over the past year, and regional consumer revenues grew 0.1 percent. Growth in connections reflects gains in high speed Internet and video over the past year totaling 2.7 million, which more than offset net declines in traditional retail consumer access lines."
Soooo..their NET year over year is up 895,000.
GAINS in other connections have been 2.7 Million offsetting that number.
Does this mean that year over year..they have lost
ONE POINT EIGHT MILLION LANDLINES?
OH yea folks. I think that's EXACTLY what that creative passage means in plain talking folk kind of speak.
Jeesh..I wonder if Uverse and those whopping 833 people joining them everyday last quarter will save them from that?
God. It's worse than I thought.
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Neyland85
join:2003-02-04
North Augusta, SC
 ·AT&T Southeast
| Re: Where's Comcast Rick? quote:
As demand subsides, investors will find AT&T and Verizon "are unmistakably losing share to cable," said Moffett, who rates AT&T shares "market perform" and doesn't own any.
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join:2004-03-19
Here | Re: Where's Comcast Rick? The opinion that ATT will not outperform is a vastly minority position. | |
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join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX | Re: Where's Comcast Rick? So verizon is facing the same problem and even fios is not saving them from competition and technological substitution. | |
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bky
moof moof
Premium
join:2002-07-05
Austin, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| said by Rick  :Awesome. That's just freaking awesome. Now the nations..or worlds largest phone company is no longer a phone company at all so no one has to worry anymore. A wireless phone company is still considered a phone company. | |
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footballdude
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
| Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama?
It seems like your only reason for having an account here is to make long winded posts blasting AT&T. Over and over and over, etc.
We get it. You don't like 'em.
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join:2007-02-27
Riverbank, CA
·AT&T DSL Service
| Re: Where's Comcast Rick? said by footballdude :Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama? It seems like your only reason for having an account here is to make long winded posts blasting AT&T. Over and over and over, etc. We get it. You don't like 'em. He must be a Comcast spy!!! | |
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join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
1 edit | said by footballdude :Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama? It seems like your only reason for having an account here is to make long winded posts blasting AT&T. Over and over and over, etc. We get it. You don't like 'em. Someone should start a website, for example: www.ricksrants.com and post all of his anti at&t rhetoric. Users could vote & rank his drivel according to F.U.D., lies, and comical predictions. | |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs: | The network i can turst?
How can YOU turst them if there selling your data to the NSA | |
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join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
| said by footballdude :Rick, did someone at AT&T steal your girlfriend? Burn down your house? Throw rocks at your mama? ... or worse he was once an at&t customer  | |
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| bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here
| Verizon has almost half a million customers for their TV service. AT&T is keeping pace with them on a launch date perspective with far less being spent.
It seems like from a business perspective, Rick is Rong.
I wonder what his spin will be when AT&T catches and surpasses Verizon's TV numbers? I wonderif it'll be before the reach 1 million or if it will take them to 2 million to pass them? | |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
Premium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | 126,000 customers..... And none of them could watch TV the other day!! | |
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| sm2016a
join:2004-03-02
Belleville, IL | Re: 126,000 customers..... And they still only get a 6 meg internet speeds. How awesome is that. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: 126,000 customers..... While I (personally) could live with a 6Mbps (even 3Mbps) line, I don't think I'd appreciate having my TV service disconnected with no real explanation
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| | | forefun
join:2004-04-21
Austin, TX | Re: 126,000 customers..... Happens all the time with Time Warner. Cable Companies don't know how to run a network. Never have, Never will. | |
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| LexiC
join:2007-09-07
Sheboygan, WI | Not true. I was able to watch all my local channels, ESPN, CNN, HBO, Showtime and some others. I still had my internet connection too.
When I had cable, an outage took down everything. | |
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ying
@bellsouth.net | Unlike U-verse Comcast is consistent; it's grainy everyday! | |
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join:2004-03-19
Here | Re: 126,000 customers..... Don't mistake grain for noise. | |
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wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
1 edit | There are thousands more waiting in the wings... And nobody outside of affluent properties or regions can touch the service. They could easily add a few more thousand if they just came to my neck of the woods - my checkbook's waaaaaiiiiiting. Never mind the fact that the SBC/AT&T building and wire plant for the region is *literally* a stone's throw away - 2 blocks over.
Fiber please!
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apeface
join:2000-09-16
Mckinney, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T DSL Service
| Re: There are thousands more waiting in the wings... said by wolfox :And nobody outside of affluent properties or regions can touch the service. Wrong. | |
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wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
| Re: There are thousands more waiting in the wings... Fact: Closest Uverse installation to me? A gated community in Texas.  Bet you dollars to donuts that Bentonville to the North is serviced before it even touches Springdale or Fayetteville Arkansas. And the only things to do up in Bentonville besides polishing your BMW or mowing the 5 acre lawn your 2+ million dollar house rests on is to go to your job at Walmart corporate. People only go there to retire, golf or pass through on their way to the Missouri border to get alcohol on a Sunday. But because that is where the money is in NWA, that's where Uverse will be before anywhere else. I would LOVE to be proven wrong.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | Re: There are thousands more waiting in the wings... Fact: Trailer parks in So-Cal (Santa Clarita) had Uverse before my house did.
Fact: Saugus had Uverse installed before most of Valencia proper (higher valued property).
Fact: Vista Ridge and many of the expensive homes in Newhall (hills) do not have Uverse at all, while many MDU's do.
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wolfox
Gentle Wolfox
join:2002-11-27
Dunnellon, FL
| Re: There are thousands more waiting in the wings... Well then I stand semi-corrected. I guess it just depends on which way the network is prone to growth. I am not really interested in Uverse so much as getting FTT(x) and faster Internet. I haven't watched my TV/Monitor in over 8 years. *laugh*
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AGBell
@cox.net
| the new AT&T with the system failure weekend past, subscriber hookups down, VRAD size, franchise issues in Ct, BellSouth line conditioning status not clear, I wonder how committed the folks in Bedminister are with UVerse. It almost seems as though their doing IPTV because competitors are and would prefer the whole idea disappear in the night | |
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| Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX | Re: the new AT&T Actually, Bedminister is sort of out of the way. I believe that the headquarters of AT&T is in San Antonio, TX. | |
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| | tpac_man
join:2007-02-27
Riverbank, CA
·AT&T DSL Service
| Re: the new AT&T Correct... they are head quartered in San Antonio.
I just switch my cell back to ATT, I have ATT DSL at home and I currently have dish network (partnered with ATT) and maybe planning on going to U-Verse in the future. I overall happy with them. Now Verizon & Sprint can kiss my @$$.
Plus I used to work for them in San Ramon, Ca for their Tier 2 DSL support... that sucked but I learned alot there. | |
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WknLSDaynNight
@sbc.com | The partial outage was due to a major system upgrade this past weekend. It actually went smoother then earlier ones. | |
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phatness
join:2002-07-02
Old Greenwich, CT
clubs:
| Wireless data 64% surge in wireless data revenue is the most interesting to me. It is related to one of my favorite articles of the year "How Much Are You Paying for SMS Bandwith?" »How Much Are You Paying For SMS Bandwidth?
Not sure if SMS bandwith is included in the category of "wireless data revenue," but I'm sure $1000 a MB made them a few bucks this quarter. | |
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| Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
| Re: Wireless data said by phatness :64% surge in wireless data revenue is the most interesting to me. It is related to one of my favorite articles of the year "How Much Are You Paying for SMS Bandwith?" » How Much Are You Paying For SMS Bandwidth?Not sure if SMS bandwith is included in the category of "wireless data revenue," but I'm sure $1000 a MB made them a few bucks this quarter. I would think that the iphone is a major factor in that number... | |
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| | phatness
join:2002-07-02
Old Greenwich, CT
clubs:
| Re: Wireless data I am sure iPhone users have used a lot of wireless data, but $50 a month for unlimited data cannot compare to $1000 a MB in text messages.
Also, they had 2 million additional customers this quarter and this was the first quarter AT&T was providing service for iPhone users. Not sure how many of those 2 million are iPhone, probably a lot, but their total now comes to 65 million.
I'm really not trying to be annoying, but there are less than 2 million iPhone subscribers at AT&T and 63+ million non-iPhone text-messaging-ready subscribers. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| Re: Wireless data Yup - increased cost of SMS is why I put a block on all SMS (that and I was being spammed by glomobi.com).
AT&T Wireless = free unlimited inbound sms/mms
AT&T = $0.10/message inbound/outbound
Nextel BB7100i = unlimited email/text/sms/mms and no bill.
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126,000 U-Verse Customers
