tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| Hahahahaha!
AT&T might have to eat crow to merge!
The global deathstar at&t won't be able to gobble up an RBOC without a commitment to REAL broadband deployment... not the string and cup version (picture kids talking by string and cups) of dsl.. (now imagine sending 10megapixel uncompressed pictures of your children via crappy dsl upstream speeds)
I've long waited for this day to say: I told you so..
DO IT RIGHT or go to hell! |
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Eliot Spitzer
@ameritech.net
| AT&T is an RBOC. Actually, they are a collection of RBOCs (nee SBC) which purchased the rotting carcass of what used to be AT&T and adopted its name. You might want to check your facts before you rant.
And who in their right mind sends 10 megapixel RAW files to anyone? |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| Your OPINION of WHO GOBBLED WHO is off-base.. the NAME AT&T is part of the BIG 3 LONG DISTANCE CARRIERS who were formerly MA-Bell, the mother of all telecommunications!
As a history lesson the big 3 are (in no order of importance):
AT&T, Sprint, MCI.
SBC merger is recent muck-raking because of new technologies such as cable-modems, dsl, and later "VOIP" services, in combination with "regulated" industry made for some 3rd party carriers.. the long distance phone calls business would not generate enough revenue which brought about competition between rbocs & ld carriers. Now cable companies joined the party.
BTW, The point I was making, was that AT&T DOES NOT DESERVE to become the LARGEST Telecom carrier in the country! They make no serious commitment to Ultra-High-Speed bandwidth to the residential home, and are slippery as snakes on deployment timetables. Verizon isn't a whole lot better, but to their credit, they made a commitment to the technology of FTTP. There isn't a whole lot the fcc can do besides block the merger and set a high-bar conditions of divesting some valuable core assets(cough,cough, wireless) as the carrot & stick. |
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