1 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
3 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
4 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: 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
7 posted on
07/21/2004 9:38:53 AM PDT by
afnamvet
(Where facts are few, experts are many...Donald R. Gannon)
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.
9 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: 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.”)
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
15 posted on
07/21/2004 10:01:29 AM PDT by
nevergore
(“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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.
18 posted on
07/21/2004 10:08:41 AM PDT by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: HAL9000; All
I use SBC for my local phone and use my cell phone for long distance needs. With VOIP coming out now, I think we are going to see a lot of changes with telecom industry real soon. Basically if companies don't adapt they die...
21 posted on
07/21/2004 10:11:49 AM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: HAL9000
at+t will be phased out shortly itself.
To: HAL9000
I guess this is why I get daily telemarketing calls from 'verizon'.
Red
28 posted on
07/21/2004 11:13:01 AM PDT by
Conservative4Ever
(I love the 1st Amendment...I can call Clinton an idiot.)
To: HAL9000
30 posted on
07/21/2004 11:22:32 AM PDT by
Cacique
To: HAL9000
I use Voice over IP Unlimited US calls $34.95 a mo. A company called vonage sets you up with a Cisco VOIP box connected to your broadband router. Big issue is when the broadband is out so is your phone.
36 posted on
07/21/2004 1:03:55 PM PDT by
erinjohn
(“There was a guy in a headscarf with an AK47 standing there looking at me, so I shot him.”)
To: HAL9000
Might as well. They sold off their Broadband division, sold off their Cable division, sold off their Wireless division...might as well go for the quadfecta, and get out of business entirely. That way, they can go after the Real Estate and Mutual Fund business...it'll be all they have left after they have no customers, just land and money.
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