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Grafton, WV | This is why... they are implementing all the crazy low caps on their DSL plans. They figure with all the overage charges, they will recoup all their expenditures real quick. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: This is why... said by ropeguru:they are implementing all the crazy low caps on their DSL plans. They figure with all the overage charges, they will recoup all their expenditures real quick. I don't think so. Acquisitions are done with specific strategic targets in mind. This one was so that A&T can keep pace with Verizon Wireless in numbers of customers.
Any decision on caps was made for reasons concerning the upcoming flood of video clogging up their DSL infrastructure and obtaining enough money to expand that infrastructure.
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| |  KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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| Re: This is why... said by ThrowDemsOut:Any decision on caps was made for reasons concerning the upcoming flood of video clogging up their DSL infrastructure and obtaining enough money to expand that infrastructure. And now, edited somewhat:
Any decision on caps was made for reasons concerning the upcoming flood of (competition video services) clogging up their (future profit expectations), DSL infrastructure (being obsoleted and requiring upgrades to keep pace with said competition) and obtaining enough money to expand (stock price and executive compensation).
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| | | | said by ThrowDemsOut:Any decision on caps was made for reasons concerning the upcoming flood of video clogging up their DSL infrastructure and obtaining enough money to expand that infrastructure. In other words, using business "logic" to solve an engineering problem without all the engineering and technical talk that most executives can't or don't want to understand.
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| |  mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
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North Babylon, NY | Less goddamn competition. You and your Big Business propaganda, TKJM. | |
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| | Cool... "Centennial has a 20-year history of doing what is best for our customers, and this transaction is a natural next step for us," said Michael J. Small, CEO of Centennial." ....just as death is the natural end to life!
Welcome to the Death Star!
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New Freedom, PA | Re: Cool... When I lived in Fort Wayne IN for a year back in 2003 all I heard was nothing but BAD about them... Glad to see the investors finally sold.. Customers will be much happier.. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Cool... said by Smile__:When I lived in Fort Wayne IN for a year back in 2003 all I heard was nothing but BAD about them... Glad to see the investors finally sold.. Customers will be much happier.. No they won't. Low level management and rank and file workers never get layed off or fired when a telecom company is bought. A POTS telco has fixed employees positions which can't be removed without replacing them. | |
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New Freedom, PA | Re: Cool... What are you talking about? I'm talking about the customers and not the employees.. Centennial is a wireless company my friend.. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Cool... And don't forget. ATT Mobility is seperate from AT$T POTS. Two seperate companies. They just use the same brand AT$T. and are owned by the parent the same as VZW and VZ. | |
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kudos:1 | said by Smile__:What are you talking about? I'm talking about the customers and not the employees.. Centennial is a wireless company my friend.. Whoops, I thought Centennial was a ILEC with cellular business like Cincinnati Bell. | |
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New Freedom, PA | Re: Cool... Nope... TDMA and GSM provider in IN and LA.. | |
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San Juan, PR | Last of the CDMA carriers in PR. Now the question is what will happen to Sprint in Puerto Rico. Centennial Wireless and Sprint are the only two surviving CDMA carriers in Puerto Rico, and Sprint has a roaming agreement with centennial for roaming in Puerto Rico. (Sprint's Network in PR leaves a lot to be desired they don't cover the whole island and their coverage indoors is spotty, I would roam all the time indoors). Something to be said about centennial is their wireless coverage in Puerto Rico is probably one of the best now their customer service SUCKS. Had their service for exactly one week and returned it.
Sprint = CDMA
Claro = GSM
Open Mobile = GSM
TMobile = GSM
AT&T = GSM
Centennial = CDMA (soon GSM) | |
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Last of the CDMA carriers in PR. some Cent is GSM--like the Midwest areas. | |
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| | | | I used to work for Centennial at the Fort Wayne call center. I would say being bought by AT&T is a good thing. The customer service and sales forces are terrible. I worked back when shady pro-rating was all the rage. It was nothing but calls from angry customers who weren't told about their short billing cycle and wanted to tell all their friends their new phone number and chat. The overages a person can achieve during a 3-day billing period are staggering.
Maybe with some new guidance they'll be a better company. Not that AT&T is any shining gem of customer service and perfection... but they're better than Centennial.
I can't complain too much about their service quality. You can't beat it for the price. Verizon was about the same as far as coverage for me, but the price difference was big. With the way my wife chews through minutes 5 PM nights and free incoming are important.
When it comes to customer service and billing, they couldn't get much worse. I still get randomly charged for text messages I never sent. Its usually like 1 per month per line. Rather than cramming they actually removed features I wanted, which came as a total surprise. I also occasionally get some bogus roaming charges. Never anything huge. I think their billing screwups have only totaled around $5 or so for me, and it was all credited back, but others haven't been so lucky. They also had me being taxed as an Indiana resident when I live in Ohio. I thought that was amusing. | |
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New Freedom, PA | Re: Cool... I always loved trying to activate a phone for Centennial.. That was fun.. Fill out a form and fax over for activation. When I could go online with T-Mobile, ATT or Verizon or call in for USCellular to activate... | |
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| KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK Reviews:
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| said by S_engineer:"Centennial has a 20-year history of doing what is best for our customers, and this transaction is a natural next step for us," said Michael J. Small, CEO of Centennial." ....just as death is the natural end to life! Welcome to the Death Star! Yeah I can imagine negotiations. "Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is Futile...."
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Niles, MI | When I had Centennial in the South Bend, IN area I found that Centennial by far had the best coverage in the area. Verizon was a close second. However, a large number of incorrect charges on bills and horrible customer service at their atrocious stores made me switch to Sprint. Now I guess I'm pretty much the only happy Sprint customer. | |
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Madera, CA | That much money in a time like this? So while the rest of us can't even afford to pay for gas and over $20.00 or over for movie theater, and 100s of dollars for a vacation at some fancy hotel with the family or get that nice brand new car or anything like that because of the economy, it amazes me that AT&T can spend that much money. Despite of that, I sure hope we as the consumers can benefit from all this. | |
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| Re: What about Free Incoming Minutes and text? Well since CentWireless customers do not have contracts ATT can and will most likely make you change your pricing plan.
I looked into getting CentWireless and was told i could sign up and roam in Ohio on TM but was told that over 50% of my calls that would br roaming they'd drop me. the only good thing is no contract. I just had to purchase a phone.
IF TM was smart they'd move in and counter the offer. TM needs a good share of that wireless spectrum in MI. But if the new Gov't allows ATT to take over they make TM sell some of its spectrum to TM in areas of MI. Especially the south east area where ATT and Cent both have coverage and TM roams on Cent. | |
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| | | | Re: What about Free Incoming Minutes and text? Actually we do have contracts available. When you sign up you can get a 2 year contract and after the contract is up you don't have to renew but just pay the same monthly. I think I am gonna renew it and see if I can get a longer one so AT&T can't fuck with my free incoming (which is what I mostly use) and text messaging (600 outgoing free incoming). Fuck AT&T...get away from my centennial...I hope the FTC doesn't allow this for anti-trust, monopoly, and competition reasons. The CEO is gonna get an angry letter from me about this (certified no less with signature confirmation). AT&T can go to hell...centennial has some of THE BEST customer service around. Their engineer department helped me through step by step to program a phone I brought with me because they couldn't OTA program it. If you have centennial renew your contract ASAP if this shit does happen. | |
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| | | | | Re: What about Free Incoming Minutes and text? interesting about the contract. everyone i have talked to there said they don't offer contracts anymore to compete on a much larger scale. | |
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| | | | | | Re: What about Free Incoming Minutes and text? They might not for new subscribers but for us they still allow us to sign a new one. We joined way back when they still had regional plans (ironically that is what we have now) and we had to sign one. However we may switch to the national so long as we can have a contract...this buy-out is even more reason. I really do hope it falls through or the FTC blocks it. | |
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| | | | | | | Re: What about Free Incoming Minutes and text? i always thought T-Mobile would pick up Cent. that buyout would make a much smarter move on their end. Their coverage in MI is very spotty compared to AT$Ts. | |
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| | I wish it weren't so. I knew this day would come and that I would never retire from Centennial Wireless, but I didn't think it would come now!!! | |
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| Too bad.... Centennial is the only carrier in Puerto Rico that since its arrival in 1997 has never changed hands. It was the first provider with an all-digital network down here.
I wonder what will happen with this company in Puerto Rico. Down here it is not just a wireless carrier. They are a CLEC here and own a pretty big fiber optic network and provide other services such as land lines and broadband to a number of large commercial clients. Many companies have Centennial as a backup carrier for telephone traffic.
I have been a Centennial wireless customer for 6 years and would hate to see it being eaten by AT&T. I have heard more complaints from AT&T customers than from Centennial. Interestingly, lots of people have a bad opinion from this company without being their customer. | |
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Walden, NY | They've been OK to me, so far I jumped on a Dobson Cellular One contract the day before their merger with AT&T was finalized; I got a more competitive price and plan than the "death star" now offers.
So far the service has been decent; my Blackberry Curve 8300 doesn't support 3G so I can't comment on that. One minor billing dispute was resolved with one phone call; they even increased a discount I was already receiving without asking!
If Centennial has better pricing, plan for plan, get into a contract NOW so you're grandfathered in (unless you're waiting to get an iPhone). AT&T will let you keep your Centennial calling plan until you choose to abandon it or "upgrade" to a more expensive AT&T plan.
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South Bend, IN | Re: Old Chart Does anyone know the creator of this chart. I can't find the original website. | |
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| This transaction might face some problems in Puerto Rico Just seen a newspaper report about this transaction in a local paper. Sorry it is in Spanish.
»www.elnuevodia.com/diario/notici···l/488080
What the article says in few words is that Centennial is a major provider of wireless and landline services here in PR and AT&T might face some objections from competitor wireless carriers. Here we have AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Open Mobile and Claro besides Centennial. AT&T became one of the largest after merging with Cingular and would become the largest after buying Centennial. AT&T may need to split the local Centennial operation and stick with the wireless part.
Centennial has become such a major player in the communications business here that they even provided cable TV service to about one third of the island after buying and merging together several local cable operators. They sold the cable operation a few years ago. | |
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If you go out of state, CENT uses ATT or TMO tower, whichever is available. So when my ATT friend doesnt have any signal, I more than likely always have it because my phone just finds the TMOB tower. I always found this to be an excellent feature, because the free incoming still worked. | |
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