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| Re: Corporations Win Again!! said by systems2000:
They have been running HSI service for less than a year and AT&T has been networking a lot longer. I'd say AT&T has more experience than Comcast.
True... but keep in mind AT&T's interaction with home-based customers, which are the bread and butter for cable, used to be long distance service, in which an ILEC would pretty much handle everything for them. Aside from credits for wrong numbers, or other LD service problems, AT&T didn't really have familiarity with the hands on approach that cable TV requires.
Additionally, when AT&T bought TCI, they overpaid significantly. They got TCI for $54 billion in 1999 and are now selling it to Comcast for $54.6 billion. Even factoring in inflation this was a horrible deal for AT&T, they had been pushed into the corner and now have no choice but to sell. What I wonder is, and the link I give makes mention of this, is that AT&T spent "$100 Billion" on other cable TV operations. Does this include TCI or not? And is ATTBI their ENTIRE operation, that they reportedly spent $100 to $150 Billion on, that they are selling for $54.6 billion now? I'm not even sure if this factors in the upgrades AT&T had to do to TCI's network to make it up to snuff.
Yikes.
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