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| price hikes.. AT&T forgot the last secret weapon.. price hikes..
Bad service, take a price hike-- afterall a new year is coming..
I so would love for AT&T to charge more so consumers will actally write congress to do something about the nasty duopoly status which is anti-consumer..
When grandma has to write her congress person for a $75 POTS phone line that's not maintained properly.. maybe this will spur AT&T to do the right thing and upgrade some more.. or get out of the way for someone who will..
I'm curious.. do AT&T and Verizon still actively lobby against other companies coming in to build a network?!? The way they've wholesale written off copper networks & landline you'd think that was the case.. someone look into it.. |
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| said by tmc8080:AT&T forgot the last secret weapon.. price hikes..
Bad service, take a price hike-- afterall a new year is coming..
I so would love for AT&T to charge more so consumers will actally write congress to do something about the nasty duopoly status which is anti-consumer..
When grandma has to write her congress person for a $75 POTS phone line that's not maintained properly.. maybe this will spur AT&T to do the right thing and upgrade some more.. or get out of the way for someone who will..
I'm curious.. do AT&T and Verizon still actively lobby against other companies coming in to build a network?!? The way they've wholesale written off copper networks & landline you'd think that was the case.. someone look into it..
They do still lobby against other companies, which is ironic to, their is no reason for them to but they do it anyway guess its to show they are true duopolies I would guess the only reason they do this is for the furture 4G, but the problem is people aren't gonna pay a arm and leg for 2 gigs of data or even 10, satellite looks better for those people compared to AT&T and Verizon at that point , that's one of the things I noticed with the shared plans is that it looks like they try to price data like Satellite hoping to make extra... except satellite is getting cheaper and AT&T and Verizon wont |
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| Of course they lobby to keep you from having other choices. When the FCC gives them the green light to shut down POTS and legacy DSL some of us will have no choice but sign up for LTE home broadband with crazy caps and charges OR go over to cable and guess what their prices are going to do around that time. They learned a hard lesson when they got away from the pay for what you use long distance service to the "use as much as you want for a set price" DSL service model. They will not make that mistake again no matter what they have to do to implement and keep it. MARK MY WORD. |
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Lafayette, LA metro builit their own fiber system, Cox and AT$T (BS) actively fought them and lost. Now they offer not only to business but residential internet and television. In my own community of 12k BS built a fiber infrastructure into the rural areas (just as CenturyTel did to the 1.5m) but never turned it on because of the pending AT$T buyback. That was a decade ago and installers still aren't allowed to plug the DSLAM modules in and activate customers. I signed up for U-Verse, the installation day they killed my DSL (static 3m) even though I'd specifically stated I wanted to run them side by side, the hardware hadn't even arrived yet. Cancelled fought to get my static configuration back and sent the hardware back for credit. Used to have a Charter feed years ago, but it was very unreliable (hurricanes knocked them out for weeks at a time - television and internet) but over the years they stabilized it (now they offer phone service too)...  |
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