AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff

Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by jessaustin on Monday April 21, 2014 @03:41PM (#7623188)

I'm sometimes amazed how otherwise competent adults take seriously anything that ATT or VZN say. It takes a tabula that is particularly rasa to just ignore the last three or four decades of behavior from these rascals. It's actually much more likely that they'll orchestrate another "rip-off", except for more money, than that Google will ever do anything even approaching that.

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by thenewbtg on Monday April 21, 2014 @05:57PM (#7624228)

I'm sometimes amazed how otherwise competent adults believe that one investor focused for profit corporation isn't capable of behaving just like another investor focused for profit corporation.

When I look at Google services, I see a lot of monopolies forming. For example, Hangouts now takes over SMS messages, and is automatically installed on all Android devices as a system app that cannot be removed. Or, in order to interact with Youtube, one requires a wholly unrelated public Google+ profile.

For someone to say that Google is incapable of abusing monopolies for strategic reasons including profit, while they are already abusing monopolies for strategic reasons including profit, is amazing to me.

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by jessaustin on Monday April 21, 2014 @06:09PM (#7624289)

You would benefit from a sense of proportion. Come back with this noise when there's a Google line running through my front yard that I'm not allowed to dig up. If you don't like the Android that Google built for you, then don't use it. Google haven't been purchasing laws and agencies since 1937. Ma Bell has.

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by thenewbtg on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @01:13PM (#7635378)

Hey, step out of the 1980's!

I have used telecommunication services for over a decade now, and I have never once done business with AT&T or a Mabell company.

Perhaps it's YOU who needs a sense of proportion. It isn't 1984 anymore. Mabell isn't a massive monopoly: Google, however, is becoming one.

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by jessaustin on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:59AM (#7646907)

...never once done business with...

...Verizon, SBC, CenturyLink, Qwest, FairPoint, Frontier, etc.? Eh, seems unlikely. Or perhaps the extent of your telecom purchasing is cell service from an MVNO? Guess where the majority of your payments are going... Apparently it is difficult for some people outside telecom to separate what's going on from the marketing of what's going on. Don't feel bad: back in the late 1990s I believed the hype too.

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