moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | Didn't we go through this before?
Lower cost > one bill.
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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1 edit |  Lots of bells and whistles for too high a price
Pivot provides customers with the ability to watch live and mobile TV, access home TV listings using a programming guide like the one they use at home, check home email and voicemail from one source, access the Internet, make unlimited calls between their cable home service and mobile phones I love all things technical and like being on the bleeding edge of new technologies. But I just can't see paying a premium for services I would almost never use. And the 1 bill option isn't a big deal for me when I pay my bills automatically thru the internet.
I use my cellphone for voice calls and I just wish it would do that reasonably well. So far it just barely passes that test.
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs:
·Charter Pipeline
 ·AT&T Southwest
| one bill mania
These companies have to get it straight: triple and quad play will only see significant numbers of subscribers IF AND WHEN the prices make sense. They have to lower their profit margin expectations to lure me in. Otherwise, everyone will continue to endure the horrible burden of paying, groan, multiple bills. |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | pointless
The cable companies get digital phone so they can get people off the bells aqnd on to there system.
Now they turn around and say "hey the bells are not that bad after all, they are beating us, we might as join up with them" |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
1 edit | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Lots of bells and whistles for too high a price
Your right.. How many people will be driving down the road and out of the blue go "oh crap, I forgot to set the dvr to record tonight's history channel, better (pull over I hope) call home and set it up.. Gee. you would think they would use the ESPN service as model to see that is going to fail (only a few thousand customers may sign up). I'm glad Sprint isn't banking it's future on such services.. Good luck big cable but no thanks. I'll just watch the show on my phone...   |
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Dezbend
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-20
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Re: pointless
Sprint is not a bell and has spun off its local division. Sprint now only sells wireless and long distance; this was one of the major reasons Sprint spun off the local division so that when they went to bed with the cable companies they would not be competing with themselves.
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | pivot...the motion of getting bent over.
does anyone find that a little ironic? |
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Healbot
Premium
join:2003-07-16
Vancouver, WA | Sprint
I'm not surprised cable companies are going to use sprint, already guessed a while back. |
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JSRoman
Premium
join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL
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Re: pointless
said by hayabusa3303  :The cable companies get digital phone so they can get people off the bells aqnd on to there system. Now they turn around and say "hey the bells are not that bad after all, they are beating us, we might as join up with them" Are you drunk? This is Sprint! It has nothing to do with "the Bells".
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | reply to Healbot
Re: Sprint
yeah, they whore out their network to all comers. brand dilution be damned! |
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bcunningh
join:2005-04-01
Seattle, WA | reply to tc1uscg
Re: Lots of bells and whistles for too high a price
Honestly, that happens to me ALL THE TIME!!! |
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Eric Martin
join:2005-06-19
66308
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= ground microwave.
It's nothing new!!! »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX
What pisses me off is that wireless should be something the public should be able to pull off without big greedy corrupt businesses who want total ownership of spectrum.
Every one that isn't owned like a slave is considering it for communities.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_network |
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old_dawg
"I Know Noting..."
join:2001-09-22
Westminster, MD
|  Short attention span theater
Hmm, there was "ION", there was 'pizza box' wireless broadband, there was the attempted & aborted (thank g-d and the DOJ for small favors!) merger with MCI, there were 5,000 employees "RIF'd" this quarter, and then there's Gary Forsee's $19+ million (see Forbes) compensation package.
Ah yes, the hits just keep coming!. 
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jervin123
join:2005-04-14
Philadelphia, PA | reply to JSRoman
Re: pointless
they did operate in many rural areas of this state under sprint/united tel. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
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Re: Didn't we go through this before?
said by moonpuppy :Lower cost > one bill. Let's see if the numbers really work out. Lower cost, NO. early termination fees, YES
theres really no reason to not go straight to sprint here.
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | I was saying lower cost "is greater than" one bill.
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MacLeech
The one and only
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join:2001-07-14
SoCal
| Sprint gets last mile access, cable gets PSTN access.
The whole point of these sorts of deals are so the companies involved can scratch each others backs while avoiding having to use the local incumbant phone companies' pipes.
Sprint often needs last mile lines to service it's cell tower locations... usually it gets them from the local bells. Now it can turn to local cable fiber runs...
Local cable needs backhaul to get from local headends to peering points and PSTN access, often the local bells are the place they get them from. Now they can use Sprint...
Skip AT&T and Verizon... the biggest competitors and often the biggest hold up when getting more bandwidth... for both Sprint and cable.
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Daryl
@af.mil | Not worth it
On the phone right now for an hour going around in circles because they can't tell me what I am being charged for. I was supposed to be saving 20 bucks a month, but ends up costings me more that 50 extra dollars. |
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