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		AT&T CEO to its customers: Stop using data, you are costing me money (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)		18
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BitwiseShift		2012-05-06 03:48:08 PM

6 votes:

Introducing the iViolin for AT&T CEOs.

ox45tallboy		2012-05-06 04:21:03 PM

2 votes:

ElLoco: "You go home now, fatboy! You been here four hour! You frighten my wife! You eat more than killer whale! Sign say 'All you can eat' not 'You eat all'!"

"No more data reft! You downroad whole Internet! You put phone down NOW!"

ElLoco		2012-05-06 04:12:16 PM

2 votes:

"You go home now, fatboy! You been here four hour! You frighten my wife! You eat more than killer whale! Sign say 'All you can eat' not 'You eat all'!"

Ayn Rand's Cervix		2012-05-06 03:56:02 PM

2 votes:

99% of the data is used by 1% of the people

#Occupycelltowers

Daraymann		2012-05-06 03:49:31 PM

2 votes:

Why only make billions when you can make billions and be assholes!!!

F*ck AT&T

Ardilla		2012-05-07 02:37:05 PM

1 votes:

Bucky Katt: Jamdug!: If there wasn't such a high barrier to entry in that industry, AT&T would have been out of business long ago.

Ma Bell can suck it.

I haven't heard "Ma Bell" for years. Thing got dismantled 30 years ago.

They got the ill communication.

/RIP MCA

bmr68		2012-05-06 09:15:21 PM

1 votes:

spman: I'm posting this from my iPhone right now, so I'm getting a kick. Seriously though, from what I've read, European carriers have no problem at all with capacity and offer unlimited data at even faster speeds than we currently have, so fark you AT&T and your unwillingness to upgrade your systems. And don't even start with the BS about losing revenues from text messages that literally use no data and don't cost anything, but you still have to gaul to charge $30 a month for. fark you.

AT&T had a network upgrade strategy it was called T-Mobile.

Person		2012-05-06 07:07:55 PM

1 votes:

Also doesn't the iPhone have wifi and completely bypass AT&T's network any time you're in home or public wifi area (unless you turn the feature off)? And doesn't the iPhone actually limit the file size of what you can download over the phone network unless you're on wifi?

So I reiterate, fark off you whining, greedy biatch.

chewd		2012-05-06 06:40:59 PM

1 votes:

Dear AT$T CEO

I havent costed you one single cent since i left your service 10+ years ago.

Indeed, i didnt even choose to participate in the class action lawsuit i was invited to join after your company illegally overcharged me. Thats what a nice guy i am.

I was happy to see the back of you AT$T, and i'll be even happier to see the end of you.

ox45tallboy		2012-05-06 06:38:55 PM

1 votes:

DssDevl: 6.1 BILLION in revenue on DATA alone last QUARTER!

Wow the balls on this guy to biatch.

His balls are so big they don't have AT&T coverage.

ox45tallboy		2012-05-06 05:49:35 PM

1 votes:

altrocks: ox45tallboy: david_gaithersburg: Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: costs

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In Japan the internet is four times faster at 1/4 the cost. Over there they have something we don't have here, free markets and true capitalism.

And that yucky, icky Socialized Medicine.

Also, they have a little under 146,000 square miles of land compared to the almost 3.8 million square miles the U.S. has. If we squeezed all of our IT infrastructure into that amount of space, we'd all have terabit speed connections for pennies a day.

/Laying fiber from Chicago to D.C. or NYC is a hell of a lot more expensive to do and maintain than it is to go from one end of Japan to the other.

You're forgetting a few things:

a. A significant portion of the 3.8 million sq. miles is uninhabited and pretty much uninhabitable. Think Alaska, Mojave Desert, Detroit, etc.

b. A significant portion of the remaining area is places that no one important lives, like Des Moines.

c. The main fiber networks carrying the data across the country aren't owned by AT&T, they're leased by them, and the owners decided to charge AT&T by the megabyte. (in the olden days of circuit switched, it was by the circuit-second. But then it was other companies leasing the traffic from AT&T.) Therefore, AT&T is counting every megabyte. This could be alleviated if they would just lay out their own capital expenditures instead of getting locked into the lease agreement, or if they had negotiated better to begin with.

not my gumdrop buttons		2012-05-06 05:30:49 PM

1 votes:

Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive

MAYORBOB		2012-05-06 03:58:11 PM

1 votes:

I, for one, am outraged, outraged I tell you that AT&T finds itself being mercilessly victimized by its customers.

Hunter_S_Thompson		2012-05-06 03:56:36 PM

1 votes:

And this is one more reason why I have Verizon and Sprint for my cellular needs. I know I'm nothing but a ATM to the big companies, but at least Verizon and Sprint have the wherewithal to not publicly announce how pissed they are that I use their service and it would be a lot cooler if I just paid them a bunch of money and left my phone turned off.

I used to have AT&T and T-Mobile, and GSM was great, but I can't give one cent of my money to any company who, time after time, complains about actually having to provide me with the service I pay for. I really wish the SBC merger was never allowed to go through. SBC is just an awful corporation, the Enron of telecom if you will, and I even had to drop my T-Mobile line to make sure none of my money was getting to them through roaming agreements.

Verizon and Sprint...nothing but kudos to them. I've never looked back, and say what you will about Sprint, at least they try to keep their customers happy, even if their data network is a bit overloaded. I'll deal with the inconvenience (and lower price) to sleep at night knowing I don't support the death star in any way.

rewind2846		2012-05-06 03:53:30 PM

1 votes:

With utmost sincerity I say...
F*CK YOU, Mr. CEO Stephenson. F*ck you right in your greedy asshole.
And you can jam that AT&T ball up there while you're at it.
/rage over

LeroyBourne		2012-05-06 03:51:27 PM

1 votes:

Cute, another CEO that just sees their customers as walking $ signs.

God Is My Co-Pirate		2012-05-06 02:37:21 PM

1 votes:

As a Canadian, I'd just like to take the time to say a big "fark you" to Rogers.

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier		2012-05-06 12:25:10 PM

1 votes:

You know, the obvious solution would be to treat towers and transmission lines as public property (by nationalizing them) and let the beloved market solve the issue forever. With almost no capital costs, anyone could start a telecom company or internet service provider.

/But that's socialism and it makes Baby ReaganJesus cry
//F**k AT&T

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