Analyst: Verizon's outlook is "nothing short of dismal."

Mark Crispin wrote:
> So, this article says that Verizon Wireless, the cell phone company, is
> so incredibly successful that it is propping up Verizon's wired landline
> business; and that Verizon's management is betting the company's future
> on Verizon Wireless rather than the wired landline business.
>
> And this is supposed to news to anyone? Every wired landline business
> in the world is sinking. Most wired landline companies saw the writing
> on the wall two decades ago and got into the wireless business, some
> quite a bit more successful that others.

What's still the unknown is how well Verizon's FIOS and AT&T's "fiber to
the curb" will compete against cable and satellite TV. It's interesting
that AT&T sold off their cable TV business to Comcast, apparently
believing that they didn't need it to compete in that business. So
there's still a big wired component to the business models of AT&T and
Verizon, though perhaps not for landline phone service.

If you ask anyone who they hate more, the cable company or the phone
company, the cable company is usually the most despised. However I must
say that Comcast has been a much less obnoxious cable company, in terms
of marketing, than AT&T. Part of AT&T's marketing for cable was to send
out letters threatening non-subscribers, claiming that anyone not
subscribing was somehow stealing cable service. Then AT&T started
offering phone service over cable, and was sending salespeople door to
door trying to confuse residents into believing that they were "the
phone company" and the conversion from copper pair to cable phone
service was something that was required.

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Rod Speed wrote:
> DTC <[email protected]> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>
>>> Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never ever had a ****ing clue about anything at all, ever.
>
>> Thanks for your responses. The professionals here will have a good laugh at them.
>
> Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.
>
> You're no 'professional', just a pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

Are you by any chance JIM Navas? John's more profane brother?

DTC <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> DTC <[email protected]> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote

>>>> Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never ever had a ****ing clue about anything at all,
>>>> ever.

>>> Thanks for your responses. The professionals here will have a good laugh at them.

>> Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.

>> You're no 'professional', just a pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

> Are you by any chance JIM Navas? John's more profane brother?

Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, SMS posted:
> If you ask anyone who they hate more, the cable company or the phone company,
> the cable company is usually the most despised. However I must say that
> Comcast has been a much less obnoxious cable company, in terms of marketing,
> than AT&T. Part of AT&T's marketing for cable was to send out letters
> threatening non-subscribers, claiming that anyone not subscribing was somehow
> stealing cable service.

I got one of those "stealing cable service" letters from Comcast; or, more
accurately, a door-hanger on my front door. It was shortly after they
took over the local cable system from AT&T, and over a year after I fired
AT&T.

The droid who left the door-hanger obviously did not see the DirecTV multi
satellite dish on the roof, nor that their cable (cheap RG-59 crap) was
cut at the point where it came out of the ground and no longer soiled the
outside of my house with its presence.

Ever since then, I get a letter, flyer, or other advertisement from
Comcast every 2-3 days begging me to be their customer again. They also
want to be my ISP.

When pigs fly, maybe.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:19:10 +1000, "Rod Speed"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>DTC <[email protected]> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> DTC <[email protected]> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>
>>>>> Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never ever had a ****ing clue about anything at all,
>>>>> ever.
>
>>>> Thanks for your responses. The professionals here will have a good laugh at them.
>
>>> Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.
>
>>> You're no 'professional', just a pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.
>
>> Are you by any chance JIM Navas? John's more profane brother?
>
>Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.

This Rod Speed just has to be a troll!!! Noone can be THAT stupid!!!

I think she has PMS now... just ignore her...

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:45:50 +0000, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:


>But it's about to.................................................Wimax

Wi-Max is dead. Quit beating a dead horse.

"DTC" <[email protected]> wrote...
>
>> Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.
>>
>> You're no 'professional', just a pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.
>
> Are you by any chance JIM Navas? John's more profane brother?

rodless is just the local troll who resorts to profanity and insults every time
he's proven wrong. He's occasionally worth something for entertainment value,
but that's all.

John Weiss <[email protected]> wrote
John Weiss <[email protected]> wrote
> DTC <[email protected]> wrote

>>> Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.

>>> You're no 'professional', just a pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

>> Are you by any chance JIM Navas? John's more profane brother?

> rodless is just the local troll who resorts to profanity and insults every time he's proven wrong. He's occasionally
> worth something for entertainment value, but that's all.

Weiss is a terminal ****wit thats so stupid that it cant even manage
to work out that no one proved me wrong in that subthread.

Not ever even entertainment value either, too pathetic for that.

DTC wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> DTC <[email protected]> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>
>>>> Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never
>>>> ever had a ****ing clue about anything at all, ever.
>>
>>> Thanks for your responses. The professionals here will have a good
>>> laugh at them.
>>
>> Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.
>>
>> You're no 'professional', just a pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.
>
> Are you by any chance JIM Navas? John's more profane brother?

Now _that's_ funny.

I don't think that many people here remember Jim Navas. However Jim
Navas's main area of misinformation was in the PC arena, specifically
motherboards, see "http://tinyurl.com/4s7ewb" for "The Jim Navas
Collection." John's main areas of misinformation are in cellular
communications, wireless data, and digital cameras. Rod Speed's lack of
knowledge is much more diverse, as he posts misinformation on a very
wide variety of subjects.

Rod Speed and the Navas brothers are why g-d invented Usenet filters!

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:58:51 -0700, "John Weiss"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>"DTC" <[email protected]> wrote...
>>
>>> Never ever could bull**** and lie its way out of a wet paper bag.
>>>
>>> You're no 'professional', just a pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.
>>
>> Are you by any chance JIM Navas? John's more profane brother?
>
>rodless is just the local troll who resorts to profanity and insults every time
>he's proven wrong. He's occasionally worth something for entertainment value,
>but that's all.

Best just ignore her!