Posted on 03/08/2017 7:02:34 PM PST by Innovative
It was once said that Bell Labs had the highest concentration of Nobel Science Laureates under one roof!
I am assembling a class action to sue AT&T for their allowing the CIA to tap our phones without a warrant. I believe it to be several billion dollars in damages. They will plead some statutory permission to screw us but we will let the jury decide .
January 1,1984———a day that will live in infamy.”
Was that the day that Ma Bell died?
If you have a medical emergency what will you do?
“If you have a medical emergency what will you do?”
Think of it this way - Obamacare is bad because it forces tax on me for your healthcare freebie. I oppose it. Same as 911 tax on my cell and phone bills. I oppose it for the same reason.
You did not answer my question.
“If you have a medical emergency what will you do?”
I could not make *any* calls on my ATT iPhone this evening.
I’d dial the number and it just never rang out.
Tried hubby’s iPhone, same thing.
>>AT&T is now a worse than a third world telephone vendor. A shameful decline from the days of Bell Labs.
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That’s because they aren’t in business to serve us little people. They just charge us to spy on us. They get the Big Bucks from the Feds, for giving them the Red Carpet Treatment.
It was my son’s first birthday. Now, whether that is infamous is a matter of opinion.
AT&T sucks rocks.
>>Good. Time for American to take personal responsibility.
>>911 is just the key into a police state.
I truly hope that was sarcasm.
I believe Bell Labs invented the transistor. Of course they promptly sold the license to a Japanese company.
Bell labs used to report to NJ Bell. When I was in the army, I maintained liaison with the Bell company in Newark. At that time, Bell Labs was the prime contractor for the Nike X program. It was not an accident the Army’s signals engineering electronic command was at Ft Monmouth in NJ in the cold war era. (Julius Rosenberg worked there in the 40s while spying for the russians).
As an engineer and member of senior management in the Telecom industry for over 40 years......Published in several magazines and journals....
IMHO, AT&Ts breakup was the best thing to happen to the Telecom industry.
Lower prices, options and stifled innovation moved forward rapidly.
I do agree with you, the best part of ATT was Bell Labs.....
Wow....
911 is the key to the police state?
How about 911 is a speed dial from your phone to your local PD or fire department?
My local PD, firefighters and paramedics are hardly part of a federal government police state.....
Take off your tinfoil hat, kiss Mom goodbye, get out of the basement and go out to play in the sunshine for a while.....it’s a beautiful spring day in most of the US....
I always have my 1(911) to rely on!
BEST DAY EVER!!!! You can thank me for helping it happen.....
I would consider any child’s first birthday a very memorable day, particularly for the mom.
I know, I know. I was on the inside of that one. Started at the fone Phactory in 1961 and retired in 2008. I could tell you stories.....
I have the number of the local PD.
Is this done by hackers? Recently they caused some phones to dial 911. The penalty for this should be death.
It's fixing to come at a bigger price. Bell's operated much like utilities meaning with crews large enough to maintain all lines and handle emergencies. You watch. When AT&T buys what was an old Bell TELCO the first thing happens is massive layoffs especially in the line and cable crews. That in turn has lead to lowered standards in maintenance and upkeep. Most areas are using buried cables put in place in the 1970's and earlier as well as overhead cables.
This can only hold up so long. The Cell Phone Industry is highly AT&T and local TELCO dependent as they do the CELCO's switching and land line circuits which is how cell companies operate. CELCO's are leasing services from mainly AT&T now. AT&T isn't doing preventive maintenance nor for that matter upgrades as it once did. AT&T's issues about many things could have been addressed without the ordered breakup and left the needed utility type infrastructure in place. When these systems start to fell due to age and neglect there are no longer enough trained linemen to address it.
My dad was a 45 year man with the TELCO. He didn't have a deep love for the company and had even reported them to the state PSC once over what was called old paper wrap overhead lines in our rural area that failed when it rained. He retired from Bell.
A few years before he passed AT&T has bought out the TELCO he worked for after the split which was South Central Bell/BellSouth. Almost immediately all line crews were either retired or fired. As he wisely put it you can't schedule line failures. You also can't reach a live person at AT&T anymore it seems.
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