  EnzonE
join:2000-03-23
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 | | | Re: Mergers With companies sitting on billions in cash, it is burning a hole in their behinds. It is the fastest and easiest way to grow and stay competitive. If merged Dish will probably keep the current agreements, but will likely not keep its name. | |
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amungusPremium
join:2004-11-26
America | please no I doubt ol' Charlie is that desperate... | |
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| slckusrPremium
join:2003-03-17
Maumee, OH
kudos:1 | Re: please no Dont ruin my Dish service also. | |
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| |  AlcoholPremium
join:2003-05-26
Climax, MI
kudos:3
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| Re: please no said by slckusr:Dont ruin my Dish service also.
Yeah. I'm happy with Dish networks service. ATT will ruin it.
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| | | | | Re: please no Count me in that group of no as well. I left AT&T (Then-Cingular, and the separate AT&T before that) to avoid their crap. I want zero to do with them. | |
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| Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | said by amungus:I doubt ol' Charlie is that desperate...
It will only happen if Charlie Ergen is ready to retire and AT&T had better be ready to provide Charlie with an extremely comfortable "retirement". | |
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| | NO Please no! My service works fine with DISH. Don't need ATT&T farking it up. | |
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|  SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
join:2000-08-05
Mentor, OH
kudos:1 | Re: Dish Network = Horrible Customer Service I have been a Dish customer since the 90's.
Never had the problems you stated.The only way I'd go back to cable is after I died.
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| |  CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | Re: Dish Network = Horrible Customer Service Same here - TW is the only cable in town and I will NOT go back to them. Never had billing issues with Dish...
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| | | | Dish Network since 2001. Left Comcast. Missed OnDemand for about a month and got over it in favor of better quality of service (in terms of reliability) and better Customer Support in the rare moments I had a problem - unlike when I was with Comcast and losing service no less than twice a month at bare minimal.
Verizon doesn't feel like finishing off their build-out per the terms of their franchise agreement so that's not presently an option (It has literally been stalled ONE block away for 3 years).
I'm frankly not going back to Comcast unless they offer their service for free because that's about all their crap is worth to me. I'm sure they'd find a way to hit me with some mystery charge anyway.
Dish has worked with me anytime I have a problem and their prices don't go up once every couple of seasons unlike our Comcast bill did. Even today, with America's Top 250 and GoldHD, my price is still lower than it was when I had Comcast after all their price hikes. Raising with inflation? Please. | |
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| | | SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
join:2000-08-05
Mentor, OH
kudos:1 Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·magicjack.com
| Re: Dish Network = Horrible Customer Service Where I live in Ohio you have:
Time warner [I have to have it for internet]
At&T with Uverse. I have lived here for 6 years and still no dsl or Uverse. So a big F you to AT&T.
Direct TV
or Dish. We used Dish in GA [since the mid 90's] so we stayed with them.
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| CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | I am certain you could search for 'Comcast complaints' and get the same types of results or even search in DSLR and get the same.
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| | again huh? These rumors were malarkey in 2007 and probably are once again. While at&t does have cash on hand for such an 'acquisition', I think many DISH customers would cancel the minute the deal closed.
Of course, such a deal would be subject to regulatory approval. 
Let's just put the 'new' at&t back thru anti-trust hearings and declare them a monopoly once again, to be broken up by the government. I'd sure enjoy that 
DISH Network under the 'new' at&t would be about as great as iPhone service in New York City and San Francisco!
back in the 90s, the old AT&T purchased NCR, only to sell the asset. WHY?
They knew, they'd have to change the company name to CR&P (Cash Registers & Phones)
Down with at&t! Death to ma' Bell!! | |
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| | | Ma-Bell Has been Dead for Several Years Now MA-Bell has been dead for several years now. What is now AT&T is a former baby-bell.
It be nice before you criticize something you know what your talking about. | |
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| |  fiber_manThings Happen For A ReasonPremium
join:2001-01-27
Port Saint Lucie, FL
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| Re: Ma-Bell Has been Dead for Several Years Now Ditto
SBC destroyed AT&T AND BellSouth. They are concerned only with numbers. They DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR EMPLOYEES OR THEIR CUSTOMERS AT ALL. We are all just a number to management. Management fudges the numbers to make investors happy. Forget listening to your customers and meeting there concerns or demands.
They are destroying employee moral to the point that they could care less about the company and is customers. Employees are just trying to make a number to save their job.
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westdc
join:2009-01-25
Amissville, VA
kudos:1 | Buy on the rumor and sell on the news I suggest if you hold AT&T and or Dish Stock I would sell will the rumor is hot, because when it's not they will drop down well below the price today.
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·Optimum Online
·Verizon FiOS
| Ponder this: No more value left in the Bell South merger.. time for AT&T to grab more companies and crunch them together. As I've said in other threads.. it would be just about as likely for AT&T to merge with a broadcast network so that when the shuffle comes around for cable-tv service negotiations-- they just might own some of the assets.
The other point is AT&T wants to have as good of a negotiating position as Verizon when it comes to dealing with content owners... but unfortunately, they decided on a piss poor DSL network as their "third world class" distribution of internet access, and not FTTP. Verizon can tell the content owners to go to hell... AT&T can't (right now). Even comcast has to put it's tail between it's legs when dealing with some of the major broadcast networks.. so they bought one.. thinking it's cheaper to marry instead.
Nevertheless, none of this is good for the consumer. I've yet to see a merger since 2005 that really makes sense sofar. | |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | More spectrum to squat on Weeeeeee | |
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Dish Network = Horrible Customer Service