Comments on: Oh no he didn’t: AT&T’s CEO calls DSL obsolete

By: Will

Will — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:22:39 +0000

Well AT&T no longer offers DSL in my area. They only offer the two crappiest services of U-Verse internet (no tv or phone)… But just a few miles south of me they offer full U-verse, go figure.

I call and ask about DSL, “Sorry but we don’t offer DSL in your area”, even after i just had it 2-3 months ago..

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:26:01 +0000

We just got U-Verse Aug.2,2011. And so far only 4 Service calls to come out and fix freezing 25+times an hour! We had DHL-U-Verse is mush slower even though thay say it is so much faster!! But I know the differance SO MUCH SLOWER!!!!! And I have even noticed a big differance in home phone quility! Waiting for someone to come back again and fix the freezing TV. Oh ya thay tryed at first to charge us $150.00 to change out big on TV with problem. Which still hasn’t happened!!!!! I think that it is the box on that TV eventhough it show that alls well on there equipment? I started tracking freezes while wrighting this comment it has taken 25 min in that time it has only frozen 15 TIMES GREAT SERVICE ATT!!!!!!!!!!! Drop good for bad GOOD GOING What next???????????????

By: noname

noname — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:15:02 +0000

Cable is shared? Really? I have worked in the cable industry for 20 years and I can tell you that you are WRONG! As for 25mbps over 5000 ft….that is WRONG as well. No tests have been done to support your claim…..TWC & COX have done tests that give 200mbps over 2 miles but ATT has not done any tests to the magnitude you are stating. CABLE HAS DEDICATED BANDWIDTH TO THE HOME, SALE and UVerse does NOT! They share with everyone connected to the node in their respective neighborhoods.

By: Dark Shroud

Dark Shroud — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:36:02 +0000

Actually AT&T is currently upgrading their cell towers. They’re removing all the old T1 line bundles and replacing them with Cat5. So AT&T’s towers will be able to service more connections with great through put. Now if only they would do at least Cat5 from the Node on U-verse.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:43:52 +0000

Apparently everyone has forgotten then AT&T COO Randall Stephenson’s famous quote in 8/19/2005 USATODAY:

“If I bet wrong, I didn’t break the future of this business. For a company of this size, $4 billion is very little money. If I bet wrong, it’s not much money for us to burn.”

So what’s the backup plan if IPTV doesn’t work out?

“We’ll just switch gears and go fiber-to-the-prem,”

By: urgh

urgh — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:29:19 +0000

he’s speaking from a financial perspective. when an asset is written off, it is “obsolete,” economically speaking.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:58:09 +0000

All Wired Services are at risk.
The technology that will have the greatest impact on all Copper and many new FTTH services will be the emergence of these new (robust) Wireless Broadband Services (LTE) by VZW and AT&T. Very little reason to be tied down to a Wired link when I can get a Wireless (8-12Mbps) data link in my home/office and be fully mobile. The only near term issue for Wireless services is the lack of sufficient Spectrum to manage the explosion in demand for Video and Gaming Services.

Jim

By: yk

yk — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:37:29 +0000

it’s people like you who try to prevent ceo’s from stating the incredibly obvious. dsl is obsolete and if you don’t agree then you should be writing about women’s fashion instead.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:19:35 +0000

Meanwhile, Asia is rising … just ask Apple and the guys in Hong Kong who bring fiber to the high rise condos!

By: Virtuous

Virtuous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:52:15 +0000

AT&T is getting their heads handed to them by the likes of Comcast and Verizon in both broadband and wireless. They shouldn’t be allowed to acquire T-Mo because of their sheer incompetence.