AT&T Whitacre: 'Nobody Gets a Free Ride''Somebody's got to build it...'( old news - 09:15AM Wednesday Aug 02 2006) tags: business · telco · net-neutralityAT&T networks are handling 5.6 Petabytes of data every day, according to telco CEO Ed Whitacre. Speaking to utility regulators in San Francisco, Whitacre complained that “some people” want AT&T to act as a “dumb pipe that just keeps getting bigger and bigger." According to Whitacre, “there’s more and more content, and you need more and more bandwidth, and somebody’s got to build it." “If you build it, you have to make a return on that,” he continued. “Nobody gets a free ride, that’s all.” If you recall, it was Whitacre's suggestion that content companies somehow get a free ride that began the net-neutrality skirmish in October of last year.
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pnh102
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes I'd swear.. everyone is already paying for access to those pipes.. .
I pay a monthly fee just like anyone else that has internet access.. be it business, residential, etc.. We all have to pay for the access to the Information Super highway.. Some of us require faster speeds and more bandwidth, which is reflected in the price!
If they want more money from me, they should really learn how to just provide customer service and not treat them like WE NEED THEM. I think if their customers were happy with the service and Customer Service as a whole.. They would be in a better position and probably make more revenue. Instead they choose to come up with some wackassed ways to create revenue that they really are justified to get. | |
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pnh102
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes said by chesney09  :I'd swear.. everyone is already paying for access to those pipes.. . I pay a monthly fee just like anyone else that has internet access.. be it business, residential, etc.. We all have to pay for the access to the Information Super highway.. Some of us require faster speeds and more bandwidth, which is reflected in the price! No kidding. I am surprised Whitacre's comments haven't sparked a shareholder revolt. This kind of posturing might make AT&T's broadband investments worthless!
I have a small personal website and I am damned sure that I will never pay a nickel to any ISP for the privilege of their customers to see it. I pay for hosting. As far as I am concerned, that's all I should have to pay.
I really do hope that content providers grant AT&T's wish. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Vonage, etc. should degrade traffic to customers from AT&T-owned IP addresses, and/or redirect web requests from those IPs to pages which advertise alternative ISPs.
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes Exactly. You pay for hosting (just like all the other big content providers) and, in turn, your hosting ISP pays whoever it is that connects them for their own bandwidth. The way AT&T and all the other incumbents talk, it's like the content providers are getting totally free and open access to their pipes which is a load of crap. All this boils down to is the fact that they want to find any way they can to milk shakedown squeeze a few extra million out of people and other companies. | |
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Columbus, OH | Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes Of course they're not getting totally free and open access to the pipes. They're getting free and open access to the _TUBES_. Don't you keep up on current events?  | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes Whitacre complained that “some people” want AT&T to act as a “dumb pipe that just keeps getting bigger and bigger." Hey Ed, if you wonder why people are expecting SBC/AT&T to act like a big dumb pipe, maybe you should look in the mirror!
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| said by chesney09 :I'd swear.. everyone is already paying for access to those pipes.. . I pay a monthly fee just like anyone else that has internet access.. be it business, residential, etc.. We all have to pay for the access to the Information Super highway.. Some of us require faster speeds and more bandwidth, which is reflected in the price! Here's the thing some of you don't understand though:
Just because you pay $x-amount/mo. for your current access does not mean you DESERVE a higher tier as though it were some sort of right. And just because Developer Y wants to have Product Z on the market that is web-intensive doesn't mean the providers have to give them the time of day so they can.
All of us WANT higher speeds at the same or lower prices. It can't happen forever though, and eventually someone is going to have to pay for constant expansion. It's not fair to bash the telecos and cablecos for "not keeping up" -- maybe people should instead focus on software developers and engineers and find out why they can't be more-efficient witht he bandwidth we have *now* instead of the bloat.
That's what I don't get -- why it's all the providers' fault and all these people trying to make elaborate web-based apps (many of which are flat-out unnecessary and require way more overhead than they should) have nobody to answer to. it' snot "progress", it's scapegoating... | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes said by Primis1 :Just because you pay $x-amount/mo. for your current access does not mean you DESERVE a higher tier as though it were some sort of right. No one is asking for a higher tier for free. Whitacre wants companies like Google, Yahoo and any other major content provider to pay AT&T so that AT&T broadband customers will have access to those providers.
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes said by pnh102 :said by Primis1 :Just because you pay $x-amount/mo. for your current access does not mean you DESERVE a higher tier as though it were some sort of right. No one is asking for a higher tier for free. Whitacre wants companies like Google, Yahoo and any other major content provider to pay AT&T so that AT&T broadband customers will have access to those providers. ...yes, but why? Because these companies keep pushing software and web development beyond what it's really capable of at any given time. In Google and Yahoo's eyes (as examples), ISP's should just "man up" and provide bigger pipes to support their adventures in web-based everything.
The ISP's are naturally none-too happy about that, and their response is "ok then, if you want to do all this, pay us a premium to provide the updates and pipe to allow it".
So yes, it *IS* about higher tiers and speeds. It's about users and companies like Google just assuming/demanding that faster tiers be provided at their whim, whether it's practical for the providers or not. Eventually, it all come sback to developers wanting ISP's to provides end users higher speeds/tiers at ANY cost (because the developers could care less if it's profitable or even makes an sort of fiscal sense).
Look... the internet is NOT meant for what everyone wants to use it for nowadays, and it never will be. Web-based apps and OS's on any large scale will NOT work, because no provider will ever be able to keep up. Software development and scalability is WAY easier than network/bandwidth scalability. Once software developers get this through their thick, empty skulls, maybe we'll get somewhere. Until we do though, this issue isn't ever going to resolve because the ISp's literally CAN'T meet developer demand, and the ISP's will all just go broke trying... | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes Thank you for that response.
We've been paying these extra "fees" for years on the promise of higher bandwidth. What happened? NOTHING.
Verizon was at least able to bring 30M (now 50M I believe).
Why can Korea have 100M download when we're stuck with 6M with AT&T?
I say BULLSHIT with AT&T. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with them because they are my local provider.
Primis1, you must be a telco cheerleader or employee. | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes said by mackieg4 :We've been paying these extra "fees" for years on the promise of higher bandwidth. What happened? NOTHING. Why can Korea have 100M download when we're stuck with 6M with AT&T? koreans pay 41 cents per mb of speed. they dont have anywhere near the amount of bullshit regulations that the usa telcos have. if any such regulations exist im not aware of them. im not sure how long it took korea to deploy 100mb speeds. each korean household gets affordable and fast broadband
the usa telco companies whine to congress about competition in certain regions. they go on tv and talk about mergers. claiming its gonna bring better service faster speeds and lower prices. thats just a bunch of lies. time after time the american people get ripped off by the telcos and regulations. if one single regulation didnt exist american subscribers would have 100mbit cable speeds for maybe $50 - $60 a month tops | |
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| said by King P :Maybe the reason that the web can't handle these "intensive" apps is because Whitacre pissed away the billions of dollars the government gave him and the other telcos to have fiber laid to all of our homes by 2006. This nonsense about the web not being able to "handle" apps and software is complete and utter crap. It's not a software developers fault that the Telcos would rather spend precious money lobbying to have municipal fiber initiatives shut down, than invest that money into their own infrastructure to make it better and more "app and software" friendly. Ed Whitacre is full of crap. Everyone with half a brain cell knows that copper can only go so far and that Fiber is the next step for Telco evolution, but Whitacre would rather whine about people getting a "free ride" on his network and spend money lobbying congress and buying off the FCC. OK, since you're so determined that web-based OS's and apps need to exist... WHY do they need to exist? Give us VALID reasons why they should exist and are absolutely necessary, aside from software companies sensing the gravy train just around the corner.
You can't, none of you can. And that's the point. When it dawns on you finally too, you'll also feel dumb that you ever bought into this whole line of BS and didn't see what was really unfolding before your eyes -- the 100% loss of right of software ownership.
You and anyone else who can't see this is a sucker. | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes You have never owned any software. Not a single one! It has always been the property of the company that made it.
Also, the market will decide EVERYTHING when it comes to bandwidth and such. No website is going to purchase more bandwidth then it needs and no provider is going to charge less then they need to to make a profit.
If Google releases some very traffic intense application on their website and they want their customers to be able to use it then they will purchase more bandwidth. If they go to thier provider (Verizon, AT&T or whoever) and say I need 10,000,000Gbps bandwidth per month then that provider is free to charge whatever they feel Google will pay that will earn them a profit. If those 2 can't meet, then Google is free to shop and find that. If it can't be found, then Google can't release that product yet. It is the way the internet has ALWAYS worked and the way it SHOULD ALWAYS work. This is also true of any other market, as it should be. | |
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| Web based apps are not clogging the pipes. VOIP+torrents are taking up the largest share of web traffic. Podcasts, vlogs, youtube, etc are starting to make up a larger portion of the bandwidth also. That is why providers are traffic shaping voip and torrents. Salesforce.com and other hosted apps are not the problem - ever heard an ISP mention they were going to traffic shape on hosted apps?
The best point made on this forum is that Koreans not only get 100Mb for less than $50/mo, but also that speed is available to most households. The Korean govt and people wanted it to happen and made it happen. In the US many areas are still on dialup, and broadband is limited to 512Kb in areas. That truely sad for a country that can spend billions/day in Iraq (or name other poorly allocated tax dollar here).
Our cel phone, internet, and even power grid are way behind - and the us is supposed to be some sort of world leader. | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes Seriously. These scumbags are making money at BOTH ENDS OF THE PIPE. They charge consumers their monthly access for their DSL connections and then on top of that they're already charging Google and Microsoft for their access to the network. BOTH ENDS. Now they're simply trying to say "gee, these sites are pretty popular and get a lot of traffic -- let's see if we can come up with a way to force them to pay even more." They are not using any more or any less bandwidth than what they are already paying for. | |
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| said by Primis1 :...yes, but why? Because these companies keep pushing software and web development beyond what it's really capable of at any given time. In Google and Yahoo's eyes (as examples), ISP's should just "man up" and provide bigger pipes to support their adventures in web-based everything. It's ultimately the customer that drives the demand. Say I am a VOIP provider. I know this service doesn't work with 56K. Am I going to expect that the dialup ISPs pay more to provide faster service to their customers who use my service? No... I am going to expect my customers to order broadband service that meets their needs.
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| said by Primis1 : ...yes, but why? Because these companies keep pushing software and web development beyond what it's really capable of at any given time. In Google and Yahoo's eyes (as examples), ISP's should just "man up" and provide bigger pipes to support their adventures in web-based everything. Back to basic marketing for you.
Why do people get high speed access? Simple surfing (no videos) and email require very little bandwidth. Dial up is sufficient for 99% of web-surfing and email. Usually, the cost is about $10-$25/month (not counting an extra phone line.)
Broadband normally runs around $50/month (not including temporary specials and 1 year introduction prices.) This equates to about the cost of a separate phone line and dial up service.
Now, again, ask yourself this question; why should people get broadband? Without the second phone line and dial up argument, the only one left is speed. How do you justify to someone they need more data transfer speed? APPLICATIONS!!
Video conferencing, VOIP, large downloads, music services, etc. all rely on speed to work properly. Companies have come out with programs to utilize the speed. Google and Yahoo are but 2 but you could also include iTunes and Vonage to name a couple.
said by Primis1 :The ISP's are naturally none-too happy about that, and their response is "ok then, if you want to do all this, pay us a premium to provide the updates and pipe to allow it". So yes, it *IS* about higher tiers and speeds. It's about users and companies like Google just assuming/demanding that faster tiers be provided at their whim, whether it's practical for the providers or not. Eventually, it all come sback to developers wanting ISP's to provides end users higher speeds/tiers at ANY cost (because the developers could care less if it's profitable or even makes an sort of fiscal sense). Anyone want to tell Bill Gates not to develop a bigger OS just because it needs a faster computer to run? 
As for the higher tiers, you forget one thing. Customers are already near the top of what they will pay for internet service so ATT is trying to make others NOT DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THEIR NETWORK to pay for it. I am not sure who Google and Yahoo use for their connection to the net but I doubt it is the consumer division of ANY ISP.
Compuserve and AOL used to charge by the hour for their walled gardens and, for a while, they did o.k. If you had a faster modem, you paid more per hour. Then, the internet started getting popular and some places charged a flat rate. What they lacked in frills, they made up for in the connection (remind you, this was dial-up still.) So AOL went to an all-you-can-eat connection that caused enough issues that they had to upgrade their entire system.
Now, what would happen if ATT made their DSL a pay per byte service? People would be up in arms. Fact is, there are plenty of people who consume less than their share of bandwidth but still pay for it. There are some that use more than their share but the lesser users make up for that.
Now, Cingular is trying to get rid of people who are "not profitable" and trying to bolster their bottom line. People who use more "free minutes" than they should. 
said by Primis1 :Look... the internet is NOT meant for what everyone wants to use it for nowadays, and it never will be. Web-based apps and OS's on any large scale will NOT work, because no provider will ever be able to keep up. Software development and scalability is WAY easier than network/bandwidth scalability. Once software developers get this through their thick, empty skulls, maybe we'll get somewhere. Until we do though, this issue isn't ever going to resolve because the ISp's literally CAN'T meet developer demand, and the ISP's will all just go broke trying... So we should stop looking for the next killer app until we get a bigger internet? | |
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East Lansing, MI | Nobody is forcing the Telcos to partake in the internet -- they decided to go into that business on their own accord. If they don't want to / can't keep up with the internet, then GET THE HECK OUT OF MY WAY! | |
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| Ed's too busy selling you $14 DSL service. Ed's too busy raking in the profit on the network. Ed's too busy lowering his price so he has little profit. Ed's too busy not looking at putting money back into the network to keep up with demand. Ed's too busy putting a new face on the same old crap which is Telephone 101. (They've dont htat for their entire existance) Ed is too busy picking enimies in the industry. Ed is too busy using his customers to build a last mile on top of the backbone to shove TV down the throats of their telephone customers in order to compete.
So, how does your phone service look now?
At least cable's $42 internet fee goes back into rebuilding and redeveloping it's network to improve services. In 30 years, how much has cable grown? And in the last 30 years, how much has phone grown?
Anyone care to dispute my statement and it will just show that you are a true blind fan boy.
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| In the past companies would charge money for services to make a profit. In turn for this profit, in the future the companies usually "reward" the customers and future customers with upgrades to whatever it is they are selling. This is especially true with services (not so much with products).
Ed is basically saying: "Even though you all payed for your services and we got a big profit from you, we would like you to pay us more to pay for the upgrades to our network just so our precious little investors will not suffer a cut or two for the next couple of years."
Boo hoo. Every business when starting out or even upgrading has to take a short hit on profits, but if they have a good enough product and market it right they will probably make their investment back and then some in a few years.
What is with these businesses lately thinking their profits should never decrease a significant ammount from what they currently are. Every business has to take risks in making upgrads or a new product, whineing about the cost is not going to sell your product faster. | |
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| said by pnh102 :No one is asking for a higher tier for free. Whitacre wants companies like Google, Yahoo and any other major content provider to pay AT&T so that AT&T broadband customers will have access to those providers. Sorry, that's not right.
It's a question of preferred access vs. regular access.
Not a question of access vs. no access.
preferred access = new, larger pipes, guaranteed RTT & jitter, better MTTR, etc. Note that the fees for preferred access are paid by the content company (Google, Yahoo, etc.) directly, and not directly (if at all) by you and me (residential broadband subscribers).
regular access = best effort, as it is today
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join:2005-09-01 | Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes Then why is Ed Whitacre complaining, and stating that they shouldn't get a free ride? THEY JUST WANT TO PUT QOS ON THE CURRENT EXISTING LINES AND BE DONE WITH IT, THIS WILL **DEPRIORITIZE** SOME TRAFFIC, WHILE **PRIORITIZING** OTHER TRAFFIC. | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes said by Necronomikro :Then why is Ed Whitacre complaining, and stating that they shouldn't get a free ride? THEY JUST WANT TO PUT QOS ON THE CURRENT EXISTING LINES AND BE DONE WITH IT, THIS WILL **DEPRIORITIZE** SOME TRAFFIC, WHILE **PRIORITIZING** OTHER TRAFFIC. The problem is that until the Internet goes to IPV6, this is not possible unless the traffic flows ONLY between the user and the content provider over the user's ISP network. Once the data has to go to a peering point and leave the ATT network and flow over some other backbone, the ATT supplied QOS flags on the TCP/IP Packets become useless/meaningless. Only IPV6 supports end-to-end QOS. | |
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| Maybe the teleco's should learn to operate like a normal business. Where you take part of your profits (or budget for this) and reinvest this back in the company for expansion.
Basic example, you are a garbage company and you are getting more customers. Now you need more trucks to haul the additional garbage. What do they do? Buy more garbage trucks.
If the teleco's ran the garbage company their plan would be that you can only throw out banana peels or get charged for each item (weight). But garbage companies don't charge by the item they charge by the garbage pail size (kinda like different speed tiers you can get 3/512 at one rate and 6/1 at another rate).
Perhaps if the telecos would actually reinvest instead of spending all the profits to their executives in bonuses and stock dividends they would have money to upgrade. | |
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| Re: Ed Whitacre Needs New Shoes said by normalcomp :
Basic example, you are a garbage company and you are getting more customers. Now you need more trucks to haul the additional garbage. What do they do? Buy more garbage trucks.
Nah, the Phoneys would rather complain, that their customers are getting their garbage hauled away for free.
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| maybe people should instead focus on software developers and engineers and find out why they can't be more-efficient witht he bandwidth we have *now* instead of the bloat.
I have to say I agree with you there 100%. Ever since DSL came out the size of applications and the bandwidth they consume has dramatically increased. But knowing programmers myself there is only so much you can go down too. There is a limit to how efficient a program can be.
Back in the day of 56k I remember downloading programs that where 500K or lower in size and did jobs that some applications did today but now are 9MB in size.
Although completely unrelated, Universal binaries from Apple Computer contain the code for both Intel and PPC architectures and I noticed that applications almost doubled in size in order to operate.
But as I said earlier more efficient programs have a limit, there is lesser a limit in expansion. | |
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| said by Primis1 :All of us WANT higher speeds at the same or lower prices. It can't happen forever though, and eventually someone is going to have to pay for constant expansion. It's not fair to bash the telecos and cablecos for "not keeping up" Dude, don't stand in front of the stampede. The cattle may be ignorant but they'll still grind you down.
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| Bandwidth is bandwidth - I don't understand the confusion??
If I pay $50/mo for a 3mbps internet service to my home or business, I am entitled to use it at up to 3mbps, unless there is a bandwidth-cap agreement and I have reached it.
If I pay $50/mo for a 10mbps hosting service, I am entitled to serve content/files/etc at up to 10mbps until I reach a bandwidth-cap and I have to pay penalties.
Why should it matter what it is that I use it for!?? be it voip, web, ftp, ssh, etc...? Why should it be the ISP's concern if my software that I'm serving is bloated or bandwidth efficient!? I've already paid for the (amount of) bandwidth!! | |
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Miami, FL | "If they want more money from me, they should really learn how to just provide customer service and not treat them like WE NEED THEM."
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| Is AT+T giving away free DSL to subscribers? If no, aren't they paying for the content? Do other competing companies subscribers not want that content so they don't have ATTs problem? Or is it just that ATT is so poorly run they can't offer the same price/value as their competitors? | |
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66308 | These guys have history of nickel and diming people.
They HATE the internet. They want it turned into a cell network with obscene prices.
They are the 180 of the original purpose of the net - research. | |
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| Re: Transforming the internet into cell phone networks said by Eric Martin :They HATE the internet. They want it turned into a cell network with obscene prices. Funny you mention cell network. Had AT&T never been broken up in 1984, we might not have seen the kind of technological progress in that department either.
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guitarzan
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| said by pnh102 :Man, he sure keeps stepping in it! I guess, Ed "internet cloud" Whiteacre toned down his rhetoric.. This is not quite the news article i was looking for, yet, close.»AT&T Chief: Net Neutrality Crowd Scare Mongering
I thought the cry baby laid his plan , of charging everyone to rest, guess not.
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| That's Exactly What I Want.... said by Whitacre :
“some people” want AT&T to act as a “dumb pipe that just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
That's what I want, I don't want any of your other crap.
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| Re: That's Exactly What I Want.... said by qdemn7 : said by Whitacre :
“some people” want AT&T to act as a “dumb pipe that just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
That's what I want, I don't want any of your other crap. Ya know, if the pipe was big enough, packet priority would be a non-issue.
Tons of room in the "tubes" for several "dumptrucks"(ala Ted Stevens) to do a freakin vehicle ballet!
Lay the fiber, open it up, and get on with life!
If xx provider is to anal to lay fiber in yy town, let that *MUNI* fibertize itself!
Quit pissing and just do it! 
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| Nobody Gets a Free Ride Whitacre complained that quote:
“some people” want AT&T to act as a “dumb pipe that just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
Every time Whiteacre opens his pie hole and speaks, he proves himself, "dumber and dumber.
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| Re: Nobody Gets a Free Ride said by guitarzan :Whitacre complained that quote:
“some people” want AT&T to act as a “dumb pipe that just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
Every time Whiteacre opens his pie hole and speaks, he proves himself, "dumber and dumber. LOL!
I used to think there was a threshold of how stupid one person could be and still be alive... Whitacre has blown that completely out of the water! 
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join:2005-05-20 | Re: Nobody Gets a Free Ride Ed's just getting bigger pipes... if he can have them, why doesn't he give them to everyone else?
One of these days, someone will point out that the emperor has no clothes. | |
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Mr Anon
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| Wha? Maybe he hasn't noticed this little thing called customers, you know the ones that send you money every month for the services you bring into their house/businesses.
Just because the government double taxes and over charges doesn't mean that its a practice that should happen. | |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
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join:2001-03-29
The Lou
·Charter Pipeline
| Take Ed's threats seriously With SBC getting AT&T's network, Ed can say and spout anything he wants because, not only does he control the last mile, he controls the backbone as well. He can travel his own network without handing off data to a peer across nearly the entire Internet.
It's scary to hear him continue to speak like this because he has the network to back up his words. This will eventually become a competition of "who has a lower tariff", AT&T or Verizon.
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rmdir
join:2003-03-13
Chicago, IL | solution AT&T just needs to build more of those tubes, that's all. | |
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Mizzat
Will post for thumbs
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join:2003-05-03
Atlanta, GA
·AT&T Southeast
| He has a pont He has a point, but we as consumers don't want to realize it. DSL prices get cheaper and speeds get faster, while more subscribers are signing up requiring a bigger backbone, that data has to flow through someone, and that is increasingly becoming AT&T throughout most of the country. I don't see anywhere in that article that the consumers are footing the bill or prices are going to rise, though I'm sure we will foot the bill either way,l but we are also the consumers wanting more, and I've never been able to truly get more for less money. Interesting article and it looks like the writer actually took a neutral stance on the report. That isn't found much, especially on this site. | |
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odog
Cable Centric Vendor Biased
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join:2001-08-05
Norcross, GA
clubs: | Get it right man.... They are TUBES! a Scientist said so. You may be dumb... but your pipes are not. | |
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qdemn7
Smurf in My Loop
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join:2003-09-16
Fort Worth, TX
| You Know.... I think I'd rather just go ahead and have "tiers" based on number of gigs per month that all this QOS crap. Seem simpler in the long run. Of course they would have to change their advertising of "Unlimited Service", but so what?
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cableties
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join:2005-01-27
Levittown, PA
| Gee...T E... I would venture that all those prices for DS3, OC12 and up aren't enough? Multiply those times the companies that lease the lines, monthly, and that is alot of cash for something that hardly requires maintenance copper does (Activating dark fiber is not as costly as perceived. It's already there, and considering they keep figuring out compression and ways to get more signal on a strand of glass...)
Tubes! Vee must activate zee tubes, ya? | |
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