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Obama '08
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Jamestown, NC |  Monopoly
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icp1
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join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | Re: Monopoly I'm pretty sure every place they sell, there is a cable alternative...  | |
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jgkolt
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Lakewood, OH
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| Re: Monopoly I would take uverse over time warner cable any day in my area. of course if i could get dish i would too.
U verse support has actually been quite good where time warner is sure to tick off whoever calls. Time warner is known to have long holdtimes, rude people, and a reputation of NOT getting things done, or understanding the problem. At least in this area.
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OSUGoose
join:2007-12-27
Columbus, OH
clubs: | Re: Monopoly And it seems like in ohio, crappy service and time warner go hand in hand, i have not herd one area of ohio that has had these isues, should be easy picking for at&t as long as they get it right. | |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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| said by icp1  :I'm pretty sure every place they sell, there is a cable alternative... Yeah, but it's not about choosing the service with the options, service, prices, speeds etc you want.
It's about picking the lesser of two evils...
Frankly, I was wanting to give U-verse a try, but It's not going to happen now--- they've jacked up the price too much. Dish Network + broadband FTW IMHO.
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jgkolt
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
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| Re: Monopoly i didnt want to go att but i was so tired with time warner i decided to go for it. It seems like a beta app but i like it for now. if cox communication serviced this area i would be gone in a heartbeat though.
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join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
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| said by MattE :It's amazing ... all it takes is a monopoly and you can sell a turd to millions. I hardly think at&t has a monopoly in the Greensboro/High Point area if that is what your post suggests... I live here too 
Did you have a bad time with your Uverse experience to consider it a turd? Oh wait, it hasn't been deployed here yet. | |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
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| Re: Monopoly They do have a monopoly, even if you have a choice for DSL. They control the wire line and any ISP has to buy the circuit from ATT.
In my area ATT has been raising the wholesale prices to the local ISP's and lowering their own to the public to kill off the competition.
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join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
| Re: Monopoly said by gaforces :They do have a monopoly, even if you have a choice for DSL. They control the wire line and any ISP has to buy the circuit from ATT. In my area ATT has been raising the wholesale prices to the local ISP's and lowering their own to the public to kill off the competition. So VOIP, Cable telephone & cell/wireless isn't an alternative?
The original poster was talking about Uverse by the way... which competes with cable & satellite. No monopoly, sorry. | |
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jgkolt
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs: | Re: Monopoly uverse tv and uverse internet(vdsl) | |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
·Cruzio Internet
| Maybe when they implement DocSis 3 it will be a comparable alternative. To me, the overloading of the nodes of cable doesn't even put it in the same ballpark of quality as xDSL.
Cell/Wireless is also catching up to what I use connectivity for, it's close enough now for me to switch, but it is not the same quality.
ATT and the other cannibal children of the old Bell system own most of the wireline infrastructure of the US, so at some point cable and wireless pass through their control.
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
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| What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare
I wonder how long I should give notice to cancel my land-line?
My Sprint SERO line is working pretty well. The EVDO is good. I already gave notice to my ISP Cruzio.
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justbits
More fiber than ATT can handle
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join:2003-01-08
Chicago, IL
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| Broadband revenue jumped 13.2% in the first quarter Let's not forget that AT+T did a few things to improve their broadband revenue in the first quarter.
* AT+T offered speed upgrades to more people.
* AT+T increased the price of broadband across the board by $5/mo.
* AT+T deployed more U-verse installations.
And I'm sure there are other factors.
Some factors that have or will impact their broadband revenue are:
* Several customers were offered 1 to 2 year plans with discounts so people could keep the pre-increase prices by paying for long-term plans instead of monthly.
* In several cases, people are only getting a marginal improvement from the upgrades they chose. This may come back to haunt AT+T since the marginal improvement is due to lines that are too long in the first place or lines that should/will need line maintenance to keep the customer happy at those speeds. Offering an upgrade and not being able to follow through is also a problem. Dangling a carrot in front of someone and then yanking it away makes for very unhappy customers. | |
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jgkolt
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Lakewood, OH
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| Re: Broadband revenue jumped 13.2% in the first quarter I did not receive a 5$ increase in price nor do i have a contract with them either. | |
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join:2008-01-12
Laredo, TX | Re: Broadband revenue jumped 13.2% in the first quarter Didn't AT&T say that the price increase is only in the lower tiers of the internet speeds and not Elite? I'm on the year contract and haven't seen a price increase because of this. | |
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justbits
More fiber than ATT can handle
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join:2003-01-08
Chicago, IL | Re: Broadband revenue jumped 13.2% in the first quarter If you're in the middle of a contract, you wont see a price increase until your term is up. | |
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jgkolt
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs: | Re: Broadband revenue jumped 13.2% in the first quarter im no tin contract and my price didnt go up is what i was saying | |
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justbits
More fiber than ATT can handle
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join:2003-01-08
Chicago, IL | Re: Broadband revenue jumped 13.2% in the first quarter You're right. Elite has always been around $35. Nevermind. It's just Basic/Express/Pro that have been bumped in price. | |
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dslwanter
Getting armstrong fiber installed Sep 13
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
·AT&T Midwest
·AT&T Yahoo
| Nice Others are enjoying technology of the future yet people around here don't even deserve DSL. I love this company and their motives.
Let's fire another 5,000 employees while we're at it. Maybe they'll take the money they save and either develop U-Verse quicker or at least get outlying townships some remote terminals...or wait...that would be the good thing to do.
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dslwanter
Getting armstrong fiber installed Sep 13
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Lowellville, OH
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| Re: Nice said by hayabusa3303 :said by dslwanter :Let's fire another 5,000 employees while we're at it. Fire everyone so india can do all the work EH? Hell yeah man it's cheap labor. The hell with trying to boost the country's economy and yet we're one of the biggest monopolies in the country. And hell, those people in India sure know what they're doing to.
Disclaimer: I'm being very sarcastic.
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ptrowski
Got Helix?
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join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
clubs: | Re: Nice There is also a new tax being proposed right now in India that would substantially increase the cost of outsourcing over there.
I hear about it all the time as I place H1 consultants. | |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL
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| India is having a food shortage, a gas shortage, and a strained labor market. Plus, most consumers like me hate talking to them instead of an American. If India destabilizes over the shortages, I'm sure riots and businesses won't want to invest there. Doctors here in Florida that are Indian have lost patients because they have low quality training.
If anything, I see outsourcing coming back home since Democrats are still going to control Congress, even more after the elections, and hate it as well. Both Hillary and Obama want to end tax breaks to companies that outsource.
Outsourcing just causes low morale as well, and hatred. Just ask DELL and Bank of America.
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alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA
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ncbill
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join:2007-01-23
Winston Salem, NC
·AT&T Southeast
| How many are paying $10/month? I wonder how many of those DSL customers are on the $10/month, 768KB plan like me - no price increases possible there until 2009.
I've been busy moving evryone I can off cable onto the above plan.
I don't think AT&T is making much money off us. | |
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join:2006-11-12
Crystal Lake, IL
·AT&T Yahoo
| Re: I said by anonomous :will never switch to U-verse unless they clean up their HD  ! I have Comcast and our picture looks excellent. I have seen the pictures of Comcast HD and ours looks nothing like that. Now comparing the Comcast pictures to U-verse....... NO COMPARISON! I would take the Comcast over the U-verse ANY DAY! The picture looks horrible  ! It made me want to throw up! Our Comcast HD channels recently (the last couple days) began macro-blocking noticeably. Audio also will cut in and out. Does not seem to be a pattern in relation to channels.
Some users here have reported that this is because Comcast is now squeezing 3 HD channels per QAM frequency, whereas before they were only piping 2 channels per QAM frequency. | |
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join:2004-03-19
Covington, LA | This post is... well, we all know what it is and what it's worth. | |
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bellsouf
@verizon.net | haha 379,000 beta testers for iptv that DOES NOT WORK! | |
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