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It sucks yes, but blame the FCC for it, not AT&T. | |
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| | | | Re: Idiots said by JasonOD :Really?!? Why would AT&T be motivated one inch to build out a service that every wireless carrier would get discounted access to and build their own business off of? Maybe because AT&T's subs would get to use it. Maybe because, if they don't, other carriers will.
AT&T has a long record of doing things half-assed. They've never done a complete job of rolling out DSL, and they've had over a decade to do it. No, they stopped DSL so they could start building U-verse. Well, guess what? Their U-verse deployments look like Swiss cheese. This neighborhood can get it, but this one can't. On the wireless side, they've dragged their feet on 3G. They don't even have I-20 from Birmingham to Atlanta covered outside of either city, and that corridor gets lots of traffic.
Did anyone actually expect them to do a complete LTE buildout? Oh, but they need T-Mobile to ease their spectrum crunch. Maybe, just MAYBE, if they built out the licenses they already have, there wouldn't be so much congestion on their network.
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kudos:4 | Re: Idiots said by MovieLover76:Lame arguement, I don't see verizon slowing their LTE deployment because of this ruling, in fact they just announced they plan to over deliver on their estimated LTE markets by the end of 2011
This is just standard AT&T, catering to their investors and making excuses to not invest in infrastructure
And nowhere did AT&T say they were slowing down their LTE rollout. That was mere speculation on the bloggers part because AT&T said that FCC data roaming rule could be bad for investment.
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AT&T Hasn't even gotten their 3g network coverage up to date. I am using Verizon 3g/4g because AT&T cant get over 14.4K in my area! | |
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| | | | | Re: Idiots said by book119 :BULL! AT&T charges PREMIUM rates for inferior products. At&t LOVES to blame deregulation, over regulation, or someone taking a leak on one of their lines for their obsolete technology. 12 YEARS I waited for DSL service that was coming ANY day. In the mean time my 56k dial up line degraded to under 28.8k, when I complained they said they only guaranteed 14.4k! 14.4???!!!!! it is 2011. I cant even pay my AT&T bill online @ 14.4K.
AT&T Hasn't even gotten their 3g network coverage up to date. I am using Verizon 3g/4g because AT&T cant get over 14.4K in my area!
Verizon 4G must've been like stepping 20 years into the future for you eh?
I always recommend people just get a phone with an unlimited data plan (and then root and tether) rather than waste $10/month more on a 10 gig data stick. | |
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Verizon 4G must've been like stepping 20 years into the future for you eh? 20 years in the future definitely. we are still 3g out home but it is NIGHT & DAY difference (avg 1.4mb vs 14.4K). 4G in town (Louisville KY has SOME limited 4G) is a little slower than I expected but I can live with 5Mb avg). AT&T can stick it, I even ported my old Land line over to Home phone connect. I am TOTALLY wireless now (& AT&T FREE) | |
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| | Another magical refrence Again, the iphone is almost certainly NOT going to be LTE this year! Apple would never deal with the size and battery requirements for one us carrier in a global market. | |
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| | AT&T is bleeding customers Please link me to some numbers that show AT&T is bleeding iPhone customers. Real none arbitrary numbers. | |
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kudos:12 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by anon12345 :Please link me to some numbers that show AT&T is bleeding iPhone customers. Real none arbitrary numbers.
They're not, they just had their best quarter ever actually: »www.engadget.com/2011/04/20/atan···-with-5/ | |
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kudos:1 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by Matt:said by anon12345 :Please link me to some numbers that show AT&T is bleeding iPhone customers. Real none arbitrary numbers.
They're not, they just had their best quarter ever actually: » www.engadget.com/2011/04/20/atan···-with-5/ Any Verizon iPhone activated is an AT&T loss. Verizon activated 2.2 iPhones in the first half quarter.
»arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/···2011.ars
AT&T's iPhone bleeding is slowly eroding into their bottom line the conclusion is that the bleeding will turn into a hemorrhage in the next quarters as ETFs expire and the LTE enabled iPhone5 comes out later this year. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by etaadmin:Any Verizon iPhone activated is an AT&T loss. Huh? How so? | |
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kudos:1 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by openbox9:said by etaadmin:Any Verizon iPhone activated is an AT&T loss. Huh? How so? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers You're right, that's why I'm scratching my head wondering why you believe that every VZW iPhone is a loss to AT&T. It's not BTW  | |
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kudos:1 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by openbox9:You're right, that's why I'm scratching my head wondering why you believe that every VZW iPhone is a loss to AT&T. It's not BTW
Very simple, when somebody else sells something that you can sell that is considered a loss.
If I was AT&T I would want that customer right?
2.2 Verizon iPhones... 2.2 AT&T customers lost.
But don't worry it will get worse... | |
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kudos:1 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers Since we don't have access to detailed demographics then yes, I am assuming the worst case scenario.
Unfortunately Verizon's iPhone is only a few months old and it is too early to say what long term impact will have on AT&T but Verizon has managed to capture around 12% of the iPhone market in just 2 months... not bad.
»labs.chitika.com/iZone/ | |
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kudos:12 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by etaadmin:Since we don't have access to detailed demographics then yes, I am assuming the worst case scenario.
Unfortunately Verizon's iPhone is only a few months old and it is too early to say what long term impact will have on AT&T but Verizon has managed to capture around 12% of the iPhone market in just 2 months... not bad.
»labs.chitika.com/iZone/
How many of those were existing Verizon customers and how many of those were AT&T customers that switched to Verizon? | |
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kudos:1 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers Keep wondering the day is not over. | |
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Chesterfield, MO | As the original poster said, they are all AT&T losses because until there was a Verizon iPhone, anyone purchasing an iPhone would have had to become or remain an AT&T customer.
The only relevant question to ask is how many of these customers would not have purchased an iPhone if it wasn't available on Verizon's network. Whatever the balance is AT&T's loss because until recently, Apple's ship could only be boarded at AT&T docks. | |
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| Re: AT&T is bleeding customers Virtually none of them would have purchased an iPhone if it wasn't on Verizon, because they COULDN'T. They are on family plans that have been with Verizon forever, and they can't leave. So iPhone comes along, and they jump at the opportunity to upgrade.
I'd like to meet any delusional crazies who switch to a network with slower data and no simultaneous voice and data that costs more and doesn't have rollover. | |
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| Re: AT&T is bleeding customers It's not that big of a deal 98% of the time, and it's not worth paying more for, but it's a great feature when you can pay LESS, AND have FASTER data speeds along with it. It's a real big convenience once in a while to not have to hang up on a call while you look something up online.
AT&T's 3G network, with the latest round of upgrades goes literally anywhere there is any noticeable population density, with rock-solid EDGE if you are way out in the boonies. | |
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Does that mean that Verizon lost more than AT&T?
By your logic, and I use that loosly, over 5 million iPhones were sold, and both carriers lost big! | |
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kudos:1 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers Nice try, but AT&T was first in selling the iPhone. You have to compare it to something.
For a moment I though I was talking to my 3 year old kid LOL. Daddy if there was no God and nothing where would we be? LOL. | |
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Mcallen, TX | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by Urdumb :I activated a vz iphone in addition to my AT&T iPhone so no loss there..doh
Very smart, two iPhones do you call yourself from one and answer on the other? | |
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| Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by gia:Very smart, two iPhones do you call yourself from one and answer on the other?
I have several cell phones all Tracfones. All men should have a second "girl friend" phone; preferably a throw away. | |
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kudos:12 | said by openbox9:said by etaadmin:Any Verizon iPhone activated is an AT&T loss. Huh? How so? That's what I'm wondering too. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: AT&T is bleeding customers said by Matt:said by openbox9:said by etaadmin:Any Verizon iPhone activated is an AT&T loss. Huh? How so? That's what I'm wondering too. Keep wondering for the rest of the day and at the end give a call I'll explain it to you. | |
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| Re: AT&T is bleeding customers It's more like approximately a X to 1 ratio, or some other ratio in an ongoing manner. Meaning, for every AT&T iPhone cancellation, X Verizon iPhones getting activated. X may be a value of 1.5, or 2, or 3 -- someone will need to calculate.
Thus, it's NOT exactly a 1:1 ratio, and therefore "every Verizon iPhone activation is an AT&T cancellation" is a false statement, although indirectly accurate with a few minor semantic tweaks.
This is due to the fact that there ARE people who refused to go AT&T, and therefore held off on the iPhone because it just wasn't important enough for them to get away from Verizon in the first place. Some Droid friend I know hopped to iPhone, having initially refused to jump to AT&T for this reason. Also, many businesses have refused iPhones for their employees until it finally became available on Verizon. Anybody with enough brain cells, can figure this out. | |
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100% of those customers are not giving ATT money for that iphone.
Maybe they never would have, but that's practically incalculable, only a "guesstimate" would work.
So in essence we know that 2.2 million iphones were not sold by ATT. | |
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| said by mdrejhon:This is due to the fact that there ARE people who refused to go AT&T, and therefore held off on the iPhone because it just wasn't important enough for them to get away from Verizon in the first place. Some Droid friend I know hopped to iPhone, having initially refused to jump to AT&T for this reason. Also, many businesses have refused iPhones for their employees until it finally became available on Verizon. Anybody with enough brain cells, can figure this out.
Would you call people that refused to go AT&T a customer lost?
Like the guy said it is too early to tell. | |
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| @Matt (even though the forum software isn't showing it): THANK YOU!!!!!!
Oh, and AT&T shouldn't have to give access to other companies to their network. They built it, they own it. If you want the coverage, sign up with AT&T or build your own network.
AT&T is not behind in LTE, because HSPA+ can hold it's own against LTE, while EVDO is in comparatively bad shape.
Where AT&T is really screwing up is the wireline side. They have no plan as of right now. U-Verse is a joke, they need to realize that FTTH is the only good option, and roll out FTTH across their service area, and they need to start SOON. Otherwise, their wireline business is going to become irrelevant, and Comcast and the other cable cos will take over.
A Verizon iPhone is not an AT&T iPhone lost, it's a Verizon customer on a family plan who can't switch who just wanted an iPhone. Doesn't take rocket science to figure that one out. | |
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Coupled with the fact that Verizon is ahead of AT&T with LTE roll-out, I think Verizon can do some serious damage to AT&T, at least as far as iPhone is concerned. And if the next iPhone is LTE capable, AT&T is in real trouble then. Apple knows that Verizon will be the first one to the LTE party, and they do not want to miss it as well. IMO, that is one of the reasons why they struck a partnership with Verizon as well.
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Hilliard, OH | Opinion stated as news? There is so much speculation/opinion stated as fact here it's alarming.
"It's easy to understand why he's pushing hard. AT&T is bleeding customers to Verizon since they lost iPhone exclusivity."
"When the LTE iPhone comes out later this year"
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Charlotte, NC | Re: Could you at least label story as Op-ed? The part about the Uverse build out slowing to a crawl is correct. The wireless part is yea they would have done better if they were the only iphone supplier but Verizon is having some of the same overload problems.
They could do much better and should have started sooner but I remember reading here they did not want to first in LTE they wanted to wait until there were more options and some of the bugs had been worked out. Once you install bleeding edge equipment you have to live with it. Sometime buying version 2 is a better use of funds. | |
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»attpublicpolicy.com/government-p···mandate/
“Roaming agreements for both voice and data are in place throughout the country, and were reached through normal commercial negotiations. The evidence presented in this proceeding demonstrated conclusively that proponents of a roaming mandate were seeking government intervention, not to obtain agreements – which are plentiful – but rather to regulate rates downward. While we will thoroughly review today’s order, we continue to believe that a data roaming mandate is unwarranted and will discourage investment and build out of broadband facilities for both those seeking regulated roaming rates and those forced to wholesale facilities at those rates.”
Now maybe Quinn said that elsewhere about reneging on their LTE rollout targets. But I couldn't find such a statement on AT&T's web site or thru a large number of Google searches. If he made such a statement, I would love to see the link.
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| Re: Quinn never said reneging on LTE rollout plans said by Romney2012:While certainly a negative opinion by Quinn on the FCC's data roaming rule, it doesn't even imply that AT&T will slow down their LTE rollout. I work in finance and based on the authors comments, it sounds like AT&T is just throwing in the towel. No way. Not a company this size. Yes AT&T is slow and behind but it is not about to just let VZW take over. Think GM to Toyota. GM hit rock bottom now it is back up as the largest car maker. Apple, MS, all companies that have seen highs and lows and then highs again.
AT&T may be on the down but it is far from out. I know this is long-term projection but I'm not making any calls on AT&T until at least the end of 2012. If by then it STILL does not have its #@$ together, yah then I'll say IDIOTS. | |
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| Funny! at&t: The company that cannot shoot straight. Absolutely amazing that as they are trying to kill off T-Mobile and screw us TMO customers, they are claiming they will not do one of the main things the takeover is supposed to do. Perhaps the FCC should immediately declare the proposed takeover dead and call AT&T's bluff.
However, I seriously doubt any real damage is done. The deal will be approved, data roaming will be rescinded and AT&T will still not build out AT&T opting to cash in on whatever T-Mobile customers they can gouge and pocket it. | |
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Perhaps this is just a ploy. It makes LTE buildout a "concession" for T-Mobile deal approval, when they were really planning on it all along and are, in reality, conceding nothing. The FCC gets to claim they won something, and ATT gives up nothing new. No doubt the general public will applaud the FCC's hard-won concession to get the deal pushed through. Tough bargaining on all sides! | |
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| is that a THREAT? We already have crappy service so, we'll make it 15% more crappier if we don't get our way?!?
Hahaha... Yep, idiots.. the investment is to MAINTAIN market share, and nothing more. Want less custoemrs.. make a wireless network that doesn't work everywhere with data (LTE, 3G++ or whatever Sprint/minority carriers are doing) becoming a MORE important feature than voice!
Lots of reasons Verizon has so many customers is BECAUSE the network can work through walls, into buildings and such where AT&T bounces off them or goes from 4-5 bars outside to signal lost/dropped call inside. LTE becomes a game changer but AT&T wants to hold it hostage at the company's wireless business peril. Lots of business by word of mouth which networks do the job and which don't. Not even the iphone could keep customers loyal. | |
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College Station, TX | RE Anyone that thinks an ATT acquisition of TMOB will bring lower prices and better coverage is a fool. ATT is sitting on spectrum. They have a track record for not wanting to do CAPEX unless they absolutely have to.
The price of everything from Internet service to cable TV has been slowly inching up when it should be slowly inching down as technology improves. ATT, if allowed to do so, will gobble up TMOB and then they will charge these higher prices because you know the cost of the acquisition will be passed along to customers until ATT recoups that money and even then prices will not drop.
I hope the merger get denied but chances are, with all the corruption in Washington (Democrats and Republicans) that it will be approved and ATT will cut their budget for the buildout of LTE, and if they don't cut, they will drastically increase the timetable for buildouts. | |
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I understand that there are people who like them. Good for you. Glad it works for you. But, here. Coverage sucks and they don't care because we are not a major metropolitan area worth putting a tower in or upgrading what towers there are. They took my money for 1 year. Thats all they will get from me.
Not to mention the BS games they play to "scare our government into allowing them to do whatever they need to to eliminate competition, or start initiating caps, etc. with doomsday scenario if they are not allowed to." Pfffffffft.....
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| Ah the old SBC model "Give us what we want or else we're taking our ball and going home."
This has worked for them for YEARS. I can't believe people put up with this. They threaten "Give us everything we want or we'll never build out, we'll lay people off, we'll have to cut everything and double prices."
And they get it. This is what they did as SBC and they keep pulling the same crap over and over. CALL THEIR BLUFF.
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By the time at&t starts deploying LTE, I bet Verizon will have moved on to LTE-Advanced. Unless of course that's what at&t is waiting for in the first place, maybe they are waiting until LTE-A is standardized and mature enough for deployment and skip LTE altogether. | |
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| Re: Ah the old SBC model They are bluffing because if they do what they threaten to they cut off their own nose to spite their face. If they don't build out, in wireless for example, then their competitors will take their customers. If they do nothing for High-Speed Internet, then you see Muni projects start up.
They will build out and expand.... they just bluff like they won't.
They aren't planning on going out of business--- they just want to to be extra specially profitable with icing on top.
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| | | | | Author here Thanks for all the responses. Bob Quinn absolutely did not say explicitly they were going to cut their LTE deployment, but what else do they have in broadband to cut significantly? He twice refused to answer questions on the subject. The AT&T President has said T will end U-Verse deployments at 55-60%, which they are scheduled to meet this year. There isn't anything else planned for broadband at AT&T except maintenance, including replacing more 10+ year old DSLAMs.
Which is the point of the item, which I called "?satire." Lobbyists like Bob say far too much that doesn't correspond to what their own company is doing.
On "bleeding iPhone customers to Verizon", what looks like hundreds of thousands have canceled AT&T contracts and switched. Perhaps "bleeding" is not the best word but they are definitely losing enough to hurt.
On LTE iPhone before the end of the year, I should have put in a "probably" because I was working from inference and other journalists reports that were themselves based on rumor. I think, like Dan Jones at Light Reading, that the AT&T rush to get LTE up is for a soon come iPhone. The likely chipmaker (Broadcom) has said the needed chips will be ready this year, incorporating both 4G and a 3G fallover in a single chip. But since I wrote the piece, an analyst I respect has said he thinks the chipmakers are behind schedule.
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Matawan, NJ | Shills, engineers, marketeers, competitors or customers? What a mixed bag of comments on speculation. I suggest that you let your dollars vote for whatever service provider you want. If you happen to be stuck in an area that you have no choice, sorry 'bout that! I guess you have to suck it up like most everybody else did until they had better choices. | |
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IIRC, in ATT's last earnings report, ATT still was making gobs of money with no significant impact from VZ's iPhone.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Apparently, there is enough room for two U.S. wireless providers carrying the Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone.
Consumers continued to snap up iPhones from AT&T Inc. (T) in the first quarter despite the introduction of Apple's smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network. AT&T said it activated 3.6 million iPhones in the quarter, with nearly a quarter coming from new customers.
The surprisingly strong figure suggests that AT&T weathered the Verizon iPhone storm well, bucking the belief that its prior reputation for poor service would result in a mass exodus of customers. The company, however, spent heavily on smartphone subsidies to keep its growth going. | |
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