Hall
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Dayton, OH | Surprised ?
You can't take two LARGE companies and wave a magic wand and blend them into one. No one, especially those who've seen or been part of a merger, will be surprised by this "news". |
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nixen
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| said by Hall  :You can't take two LARGE companies and wave a magic wand and blend them into one. No one, especially those who've seen or been part of a merger, will be surprised by this "news". Yeah, it sure never worked out for Verizon, that's for sure! 
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major marco
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said by Hall :You can't take two LARGE companies and wave a magic wand and blend them into one. No one, especially those who've seen or been part of a merger, will be surprised by this "news". That's for damn sure. I know that Sprint Boost Mobile as it's known on the west coast couldn't be anymore diametrically opposed to Nextel in terms of employee/office culture alone. The west coast office is the bastard, red headed stepchild, but as long as it keeps on generating revenue out the company's ass, HQ leaves them alone.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
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| As long as my Nexthell BlackBerry 7100i (work purchased ~4 months ago) works for at least another few years, I don't care.
Nexthell at least added iDEN sites onto its old CDMA sites a block from my house recently, so I have decent service.
Still, quality (audio) is far from that of my AT&T Motorola V3xx and old V505, and I can't receive emails while on a call. I typically do 3-5 hours of conference calls/day on this thing.
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tc1uscg
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Saint Clair Shores, MI
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said by nixen :said by Hall :You can't take two LARGE companies and wave a magic wand and blend them into one. No one, especially those who've seen or been part of a merger, will be surprised by this "news". Yeah, it sure never worked out for Verizon, that's for sure! It didn't.. but they didn't wait 3 years to let it be known. They started dumping CO techs way back. It took me 2 days to get a T1 turned up with them once and we had to use one of our 5E switch guys to walk them through the process. Guess they "laid off" all their 5E guys in the mich market before anyone figured it out. This was all transparent to the customer but not behind the lines. As far as the MCI/WC merger? They seem to have a difficult time knowing where their DS3 assignments are now days.. Seems they are always screwing up their DLR's much less know where all their eqp is. But then again, it's not like MCI/WC was a front runner of local/wireless and LD provider so who noticed? |
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nixen
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| Given how much of a cluster-fuck Bell Atlantic was prior to buying out NYNEX and then merging with Genuity to form Verizon it would have been hard to notice a difference after the merger.
MCI/Worldcom was it's own special kind of disaster, as well. They bought company after company and failed to bother to integrate any of the pieces-parts into a real whole. Then Verizon comes along and says, "hey, lets buy this confederation of a company and try to sort the mess out". So, you have one rolling disaster buying another.
You were used to interfacing with one particular piece of one rolling disaster. Verizon changed the piece you interfaced with. What didn't really change was the overall "rolling disaster" nature of the giant mess of a company.
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Jim Gurd
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Plymouth, MI
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| said by nixen :Given how much of a cluster-fuck Bell Atlantic was prior to buying out NYNEX and then merging with Genuity to form Verizon I think you mean GTE, not Genuity. GTE is the old General Telephone and Electronics. They were the largest non-RBOC in the country.
When NYNEX merged with GTE they chose Verizon as the new corporate name.
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nixen
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| said by Jim Gurd :said by nixen :Given how much of a cluster-fuck Bell Atlantic was prior to buying out NYNEX and then merging with Genuity to form Verizon I think you mean GTE, not Genuity. GTE is the old General Telephone and Electronics. They were the largest non-RBOC in the country. When NYNEX merged with GTE they chose Verizon as the new corporate name. NYNEX was a non-entity unable to "chose Verizon". NYNEX had been purchased by Bell Atlantic a year or so prior to Verizon coming into existence. I was still working for Bell Atlantic's "Internet Solutions" division when Bell Atlantic completed the NYNEX acquisition.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell |
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Jim Gurd
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Plymouth, MI | Oops, my bad. Forgot about that. |
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