  sansri88digital is herePremium
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kudos:1 | Interesting... Interesting, albeit pretty old. I liked Colbert's version too. The days of Bell...... | |
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00000 | Last Of All Lastly, in the year 2999, there will be - ATTQWVERSTIZON. | |
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| Re: Last Of All said by swintec:said by NJxxxJon:Lastly, in the year 2999, there will be - ATTQWVERSTIZON. You forgot to mention Timewarnercast True. This all sucks. Im not even basic cable in years to come.
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00000 | Re: Last Of All Eh, or back in the day.....CaldoAMjamesWalsearsKmart. | |
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| | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Well, if anyone ever saw the movie Demolition Man, then I think that we're all wrong....
.... it will all be Taco Bell. 
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League City, TX | said by fiberguy:Well, if anyone ever saw the movie Demolition Man, then I think that we're all wrong.... .... it will all be Taco Bell. Love that movie it makes me crack up when he says there going out to dinner at taco bell lol
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Last Of All Or even better, some actually STEALING Taco Bell. Man I wouldn't eat that stuff if they legitimately gave it away. | |
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League City, TX | Re: Last Of All I love taco bell actually.. noting that I can't cook to save my life lol
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North Babylon, NY | said by swintec:said by NJxxxJon:Lastly, in the year 2999, there will be - ATTQWVERSTIZON. You forgot to mention Timewarnercast More like Timewarnercastvision | |
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| | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Eh... I think more like ComWarner... I think Time Warner is ultimately going to crash and burn. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Last Of All said by fiberguy:Eh... I think more like ComWarner... I think Time Warner is ultimately going to crash and burn. Care to expand?
Or is this just Comcast Employee waffle.
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1 edit | Re: Last Of All MY opinion comes from the fact that Time Warner is run by a bunch of dinosaurs that are of the breed that continue to make stupid decisions... and Time Warner sure has sure made enough of them.. and they've seen enough business news headlines as of late where it seems their road ahead is uncertain... should they split... should they not.. etc. Many of the old, big giants ultimately die.. why is Time Warner any different?
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1 edit | Re: Last Of All I actually just asked you to expand on your comments and I thank you for that.
TWC is now a standalone company, maybe you missed that headline. I believe they are in a very strong position in the industry.
»uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=TWC
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kudos:1 | said by fiberguy:Eh... I think more like ComWarner... I think Time Warner is ultimately going to crash and burn. Dun think so  | |
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| KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | and in the year 3000 we will just have GoogleCom. fed up with Net Neutrality they just bought everybody including every nation on earth.
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Richardson, TX | said by NJxxxJon:Lastly, in the year 2999, there will be - ATTQWVERSTIZON. How about 2012? By 2999 assuming the human race still exists, it will be GALAXYcom. | |
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League City, TX | Re: Last Of All If any teleco/cable company exists it will run out of ideas and it will be "The Teleco Corporation" or "The Cable Corporation"
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| | akrjejsfmd Someone should do a google one. They swallowed up a bunch of starups. | |
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|  Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
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Dallas, TX | Re: akrjejsfmd On that note, there needs to be a Microsoft one as well.
The 800lb. gorilla from Redmond has long had a habit of
buying out and swallowing up other companies.
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Davenport, FL | Re: akrjejsfmd Let's not forget Bungie, whom without them, the Xbox would not have taken off nearly as well as it did. | |
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Mobile, AL | Almost complete If Vodafone does indeed buy Verizon I could see AT&T being the only landline phone company in the US in the not to distant future. At least most people have the option of VoIP and cable, but not I. Mediacom is too cheap to deploy in my area. | |
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Scarsdale, NY | Re: Almost complete The rumor from a couple days ago was that they would buy the entire Verizon company in order to get 100% of Verizon Wireless. Most of the comments in the beginning had it confused though. | |
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| | Sure, You mid-westerners, west coast and south people are really gonna love that Poly-Pneumatic Digital Subscriber Line broadband called U-veryslow...
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It's U-perverse.
Your world, delayed !
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Detroit, MI | Re: Sure, Or like the lady says in the Comcast commercal....Your world delivered....eventually.  | |
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| Re: But they will fall said by mariolanning:I'm sure they will all fall at some point, no one is using land lines and with VoIP they are going to get smaller again. There will be more VoIP companies, and verizon will lose the patent cases. Doubt it. Voip providers are selling a layered service. It is showing its merit. Voip at this point is a toy. Until they figure out a good implementation during service interruptions people are gambling price for quality.
I see all voip failing in the not to distant future maybe 10 years at most and products like skype becoming just voice messaging services.
Although it may bring down costs of services I doubt it will do much damage to telco once people find out what works and what don't.
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| | | | Re: But they will fall Doubt it. Voip providers are selling a layered service. It is showing its merit. Voip at this point is a toy. Until they figure out a good implementation during service interruptions people are gambling price for quality.
Have to disagree with you there. I've been working with VoIP systems for the past 6 years now. I supported a major presidential candidate's office that was using VoIP in the 2004 election. I've implemented VoIP systems in the past three companies I've worked for. I've also used them in the past 4 companies I've worked for. They didn't consider the investment in VoIP technology investing in a "toy".
And that's just the business side. When I moved into my new home last year, we opted to use VoIP instead of a land line. It sucked for the first few months because we had a lousy ISP (Time Warner Broadband/RoadRunner) with an unreliable connection. We ditched TW/RR and got the fastest residential DSL available with Bellsouth and have not had ANY problems since. We're using Vonage and, with the new DSL connection, have not had any quality degradation. I don't have to pay $60 anymore for simple land line phone service with long distance. I pay half that and get reliable, unlimited free long distance with great sound quality. I won't be getting rid of my VoIP service "toy" any time soon.  | |
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| Re: But they will fall But your a techie , when will people realize they are not the norm in this world.
I have been working with the folks from a tech company tieing voip to their home service , so they can telecommute and use their extensions and stuff from home to support a client base. Not all are technical.
These people decided they would ditch a landline because voip was cheaper and they would just use the work number and get another number for home use. They had an emergency with a car accident in their yard and they couldn't call out to 911 on voip. When it did it went to the local police office of a station 35 miles or more away.
Funny the guy who drove through their wall was ok , but ho knows what would have happened had one of the kids been on the family pc when the car went through the wall. What would have happened ?
Companies don't need 911 as much as a home does. Arguably they do but in reality they don't , to cut costs for some ones life and gambling is not my idea of a real solution.
When voip and pots can terminate into the same 911 trunks then you can move to voip faster.
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| | | | | | Re: But they will fall First, things have come a long way in the past few years. My father and other family members are all on the web...and using it without calling me every 5 minutes. My mother in law and best friend (complete end-user types) both have VoIP phones at home. My mother in law lives overseas now and uses her VoIP solution as a cost effective way to keep in touch with her friends and family back in the US. My best friend has 3 children, but with multiple cell phones at home she wasn't too worried about 911 service.
And, by the way, techies aren't abnormal. The world is fast catching up to us.
That said, I can only name one person over the age of 16 that I know who doesn't have a cell phone. My VoIP phone has gone out because my DSL went down a few times...but when that didn't work my cell phone did. Had some jackhole driven through my wall, I would have used my cell phone to call the cops. If I didn't use my cell, I could have used my husband's cell, my neighbor's phone or cell, the jackhole's cell...etc. There are ways to get help if you really need it. Hell, whenever something happens in my neighborhood, the cops have usually been alerted by multiple neighbors. If someone crashed into my neighbor's house, I'd be on the phone to the cops in a heartbeat. As would 10 other neighbors.
I'll give you one thing, 911 service to VoIP isn't up to par yet. However, if you still have other viable options, its not that big of a deal. By the way, I'm 6 months pregnant and have VoIP at home. My pregnancy has a bit of a high risk, yet I wasn't concerned enough to get rid of my VoIP service. I have three different cell phones here. I'd much rather save that hundred dollars a month and add them to my kid's college fund. There are more people like me out there than you think. | |
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Rosendale, NY | AT&T is the Terminator 1000 So when Reagan broke up the phone company, didn't he promise us that the competition would be good for business, and lead to lower rates?
Is there more competition now? Are your phone rates lower?
My feeling is that all of these companies collude in order to rip off the consumers for more of their hard earned money. Now that Bush has laxed the regulations on monopolies, we are going back to one uber telephone company. And without government intervention, they will be able to charge whatever they like.
Y'all still like unrestricted capitalism?
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hiatus | The funniest part of the chart... The Qwest end of the chart is the funniest... USwest gets broken up into three companies and a couple years later, the same three companies are back together again.
Looks like a royal pedigree chart.
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|  alanhdslPremium
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Phoenix, AZ | It's backwards -- those three companies were combined into US West, which was later bought out by Qwest. | |
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1 edit | They forgot a telecom or two on that map .Double post, delete | |
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kudos:1 | One they forgot to put on there is Contel, who had landline and wireless service in parts of Northern California, as well as in parts of the midwest (there are probably more, but I don't know for sure). It was merged into GTE in the late 1990's.
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