Comments on: SBC Flexes Its Chronicle http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/ The Business of Technology Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:03:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Thomas Hawk http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44568 Thomas Hawk Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:39:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44568 <p>Well we wouldn't want the whole city of SF having free wi-fi now would we? It sure would be a shame to see all those people drop their SBC DSL wouldn't it?</p> <p>Trying to influence journalism by flexing advertising dollars is wrong.</p> Well we wouldn’t want the whole city of SF having free wi-fi now would we? It sure would be a shame to see all those people drop their SBC DSL wouldn’t it?

Trying to influence journalism by flexing advertising dollars is wrong.

]]> By: Scott http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44567 Scott Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:53:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44567 <p>Nothing is stopping Telco from comming up with innovative new services. Maybe they should put their effort into creating value for the customer instead of created headaches</p> Nothing is stopping Telco from comming up with innovative new services. Maybe they should put their effort into creating value for the customer instead of created headaches

]]> By: mike http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44566 mike Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:10:45 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44566 <p>Maybe it's SBC (oops, I mean ATT) that should be worried. If Google decided to drop them from its search results wouldn't they effectively disappear from the face of the earth?</p> Maybe it’s SBC (oops, I mean ATT) that should be worried. If Google decided to drop them from its search results wouldn’t they effectively disappear from the face of the earth?

]]> By: ollie http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44565 ollie Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:00:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44565 <p>more power to Lazarus! We need more journalists with guts like him to tell it like it is. AT&T/SBC are a terrible company for the consumer - they need to keep the blanket advertising going to disguise their 'billing horror story' word of mouth reputation so their pulled advertising will hurt them also.</p> more power to Lazarus! We need more journalists with guts like him to tell it like it is. AT&T/SBC are a terrible company for the consumer - they need to keep the blanket advertising going to disguise their ‘billing horror story’ word of mouth reputation so their pulled advertising will hurt them also.

]]> By: rick http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44564 rick Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:35:32 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44564 <p>I would certainly be there to check it out if I could get off my day job. or if it's in the evening.</p> I would certainly be there to check it out if I could get off my day job. or if it’s in the evening.

]]> By: Mull http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44563 Mull Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:27:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44563 <p>Seems to me I remember Google pulling the same attitude with ZiffDavis when they wrote an article about how much information you can find by using Google. Didn't they get banned for a year (which was later dropped?)</p> Seems to me I remember Google pulling the same attitude with ZiffDavis when they wrote an article about how much information you can find by using Google. Didn’t they get banned for a year (which was later dropped?)

]]> By: moo http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44562 moo Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:02:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44562 <p>Check out the latest salvo from the Verizon camp. </p> <p>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020601624.html</p> Check out the latest salvo from the Verizon camp.

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]]> By: moo http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44561 moo Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:53:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44561 <p>Tx has already granted a state-wide franchise to the telcos, so only the cable guys will be complaining. Rick, maybe you can ask Martin about some of the nasty comments that Ed Whitacre has been making of late.</p> Tx has already granted a state-wide franchise to the telcos, so only the cable guys will be complaining. Rick, maybe you can ask Martin about some of the nasty comments that Ed Whitacre has been making of late.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44560 Om Malik Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:35:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44560 <p>rick</p> <p>maybe you can blog martin's visit with your camera phone and ask him some tough questions. would love to get an onsite report on his visit?</p> rick

maybe you can blog martin’s visit with your camera phone and ask him some tough questions. would love to get an onsite report on his visit?

]]> By: Rick http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44559 Rick Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:30:54 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/02/06/sbc-flexes-its-chronicle/#comment-44559 <p>More power to Google. I live here in Dallas and I keep getting bogus charges on my SBC phone bill.</p> <p>FCC's Sheriff Martin will be here just down the road a few miles on Friday in Keller, the first sight for Verizon's FIOS/fiber roll-out. It's gonna be a good-ole fashioned shoot-out. We got everyone comin to town - cable guys, phone guys and FIOS wranglers. Gonna be a big fight in front of the main saloon over state-wide land rights, er mean TV rights. Plenty to be settled by Sheriff Martin and his gang of lawyers. Reckon there'll be some Googlin going on somewhere in the ruckus.</p> More power to Google. I live here in Dallas and I keep getting bogus charges on my SBC phone bill.

FCC’s Sheriff Martin will be here just down the road a few miles on Friday in Keller, the first sight for Verizon’s FIOS/fiber roll-out. It’s gonna be a good-ole fashioned shoot-out. We got everyone comin to town - cable guys, phone guys and FIOS wranglers. Gonna be a big fight in front of the main saloon over state-wide land rights, er mean TV rights. Plenty to be settled by Sheriff Martin and his gang of lawyers. Reckon there’ll be some Googlin going on somewhere in the ruckus.

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