| Stupidity at its best AT&T CEO to "fake Steve Jobs" - "NAH NAH your dumb"
If I ran a company, and wanted to really smack someone in the proverbial sense, I would take the billions out of my piggy bank and reinvest it in the network FAST. Were talking a project that would take years, make it happen in 1-3 weeks.
Then when everyone is happy, I would release a press release stating "We have no idea what your talking about, our network is great...just see what our users are saying" and cut to real people and quote some forum posts. Then BAM just watch the profit roll in.
Instead AT&T is not taking "fake Steve Jobs" seriously and wasting the money on ads against Verizon. If I were an investor/stakeholder, I for one, WOULD NOT BE HAPPY.
Although, when I used AT&T service it was alright. Nothing to write home about, but the network speed was acceptable, the calling was below average but hey you work with what you got. Basically calls would drop when I am in low signal areas, which was kind of expected...but their "fewest dropped calls" defiantly isn't true. |
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 56403739Less than 5 months leftPremium
join:2006-03-08
Naples, FL
kudos:2 | said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:If I ran a company [...] a project that would take years, make it happen in 1-3 weeks. Clearly you've never run any company. |
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| said by 56403739:said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:If I ran a company [...] a project that would take years, make it happen in 1-3 weeks. Clearly you've never run any company. I do, and I pour my money back into my company instead of into my pocket. How do I survive? What good is letting out my company secrets  .
Should I put it into my pocket and run my company in the ground? (AIG?)
Or how about screwing over customers and milking them for everything they are worth? (AT&T looking to charge per byte)
Or how about putting money into advertising instead of putting it back into the company? (Again AT&T)
To me, my company is not a profit motive and that is what separates me from those fly by night and the multi-billion dollar operations. I am not, and probably will never make millions, but if I can help one person, even if it costs me money, I will do it.
Unless of course, you don't want to actually *contribute* anything back to the human race?
How would YOU run a business? |
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56403739Less than 5 months leftPremium
join:2006-03-08
Naples, FL
kudos:2 | I would, and do, run it in the real world. NO way you're building out a wireless network in three weeks. |
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| said by 56403739:I would, and do, run it in the real world. NO way you're building out a wireless network in three weeks. Given enough money, you can make ANYTHING happen. It's just the amount that you can spend without loosing a profit is the hard part. Consider if you have enough money to pay the man power, and equipment, I see it as a realistic goal - BUT of course someone would argue that it would cost too much and wouldn't be worth it. I would disagree. Look at how much money AT&T is making, and look at where AT&T is actually -putting- the money.
I'm no rocket scientist, but doesn't seem like good investing to me.
Wave a couple billion, you can make anything happen. The hard part is acquiring that couple billion through legal means. |
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