Ignore the need of investors to earn an adequate return and the investors disappear. And the money to make all these EXTRA billions for expansion, you so blithely take for granted, wouldn't exist.
So advocate taking peoples money and giving them back an inferior product. While I know investors are needed in order to keep it up and running, these so called investors need to start looking into the long term and not just tomorrow.
I have said before and will say again, kick out the day traders looking for a return tomorrow and make it more of long term investments.
AT&T could care less about day traders. Day traders don't drive stock prices, they ride minor price fluctuations. So what's "long term"? Is 10 months long term? How about 18 months? Should I be willing/required to hold a stock 20 years to see a return?