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AT&T may hang up on home phones
Reuters
| July 21, 2004
Posted on 07/21/2004 9:29:43 AM PDT by HAL9000
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:29:44 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Who would ever have thought that this would come to pass?
To: HAL9000
It's alright with me. I have stopped using AT$T (err I mean AT&T) years ago
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:33:48 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: HAL9000
Just another example of stupid management at AT&T that has managed to screw up everything they've touched since 1984
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:34:10 AM PDT
by
agitator
(...And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark)
To: Sunshine Sister
It's a sorry development, but the Bell monopolies have done everything possible to destroy competition.
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:35:21 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
To: HAL9000
The baby bells have had to subsidize AT&T and other carriers for years. No more. New pricing prevents AT&T from achieving a high rate of return. That is the real reason for the pending "disconnect".
retired SBC Manager
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:38:53 AM PDT
by
afnamvet
(Where facts are few, experts are many...Donald R. Gannon)
To: Kaslin
"It's alright with me. I have stopped using AT$T (err I mean AT&T) years ago"Hmmm... I use AT&T long distance for $25/mo flat rate and unlimited calling. Are there better plans?
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:42:32 AM PDT
by
bcoffey
(Sen. Kerry: I'm not questioning your service; I'm questioning your sanity!)
To: HAL9000
I work for a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier), and not entirely certain how to view this...
Possibly more business for our consumer segment, or a more formidable and profitable competitor to fight on the business side?
In any event, having been in telecom since the divestiture of AT&T it truly is amazing how far things have changed.
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:44:14 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(NO, I don't have to call you the President of Iraq. Now sit down!)
To: Kaslin
Me, too! When Verizon introduced long distance service, I told AT&T goodbye.
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:45:48 AM PDT
by
rabidralph
(My pit bull drives an SUV.)
To: afnamvet
"Polyester Ed" Whitacre should be locked up in prison. Or taken out back and horsewhipped. I can't decide.
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posted on
07/21/2004 9:55:45 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Good riddance. I don't know of a company that I think less of that AT&T.
12
posted on
07/21/2004 9:59:31 AM PDT
by
Doohickey
("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.β)
To: agitator; HAL9000
AT&T is not the sharpest tools in the shed. About 3.5 years ago I canceled a AT&T calling card that had a small positive balance of $1.23. They owe me money. I get a statement from them every month stating this fact and the fact that this card is closed. I have moved without giving a change of address, they found out my new address. I have called asking for them to send a check, they said they would, they have not. I now am just going to sit back and see how long they will keep sending these wastes of postage to me.
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posted on
07/21/2004 10:01:02 AM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(Power corrupts..... Absolute power can be fun.)
To: HAL9000
As they should. It's their network paid for by them. Why should the Bell companies' shareholders have to suffer? Today you can use wireless and in some cases MSO networks for voice services. Plus, the Voice over IP lines don't receive the same regulation that the RBOCs do. And, the governments are happy with their supposed monopoly arrangement taking taxes that amount to over 11% of my phone bill.
The telecom act was responsible in part for the sector's rise and crash. Forced unbundling of the network was basically a property grab by the Congress. It allowed a bunch of weak companies who couldn't stand on their own to live off of a competitor.
To: HAL9000
Years ago, I was a direct report to Dave Dorman at a company in Atlanta called Isacomm.....
They are anticipating the pressure of VoIP residential services in the next few years and the squeezed margins for the residential market and have evidently reached the conclusion of "why bother".
NeverGore
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posted on
07/21/2004 10:01:29 AM PDT
by
nevergore
(βIt could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.β)
To: HAL9000
I'm surprised you would say that.
To: misterrob
As they should. It's their network paid for by them. Why should the Bell companies' shareholders have to suffer? My recollection is that AT&T built and paid for most of the Bell network decades ago.
Judge Greene took the network from AT&T and gave it to the Bells - who have basically let it go to rot.
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posted on
07/21/2004 10:06:11 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Have they ever gotten a single billing straight? I dropped them after they double billed me some 6 months after the fact. I saw charges in October from April that matched my April bill to the penny. I called them up and they said that they had a "programming error" and I was being billed for the difference. The charges were the same dates and time from April. Billing error my *! I switch services immediately.
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posted on
07/21/2004 10:08:41 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: HAL9000
They recouped all that on lease charges.
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posted on
07/21/2004 10:09:30 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Interests in common are commonly abused.)
To: HAL9000
Or taken out back and horsewhipped.
Along with panties on his head. Abu Graib comes to mind.
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posted on
07/21/2004 10:09:41 AM PDT
by
afnamvet
(Where facts are few, experts are many...Donald R. Gannon)
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