Comments on: AT&T employees asked to turn lobbyist over net neutrality http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/10/21/att-employees-asked-to-turn-lobbyist-over-net-neutrality/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JohnJ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/10/21/att-employees-asked-to-turn-lobbyist-over-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-220944 JohnJ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:32:56 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/10/21/att-employees-asked-to-turn-lobbyist-over-net-neutrality/#comment-220944 1. If the wireless market was actually competitive, AT&T would have taken measures to keep up with the growing demands of the handsets they sold. Instead they chose to screw the customers via lost calls etc. while pocketing the profits. They also blame the customers and the devices and refuse to take responsibility for not adding capacity in accordance with the added users. 2. Irrelevant WRT net neutrality. 3. Networks need to be managed but they need to be managed by adding capacity, not strangling the use of the existing capacity. 4. 100% wrong. Internet carriers would either slow _everything_ down as capacity maxes out or, in an effort to be competitive would add capacity and keep customers from jumping ship to companies that actually gave a crap about their customer base (AT&T obviously doesn't). 5. Agreed in principle, but this is not really a big part of what netneut is all about. AT&T is again revealing themselves to be anti-competition and anti-consumer. Really, it's a wonder people people put up with their behavior. No device is worth that. 1. If the wireless market was actually competitive, AT&T would have taken measures to keep up with the growing demands of the handsets they sold. Instead they chose to screw the customers via lost calls etc. while pocketing the profits. They also blame the customers and the devices and refuse to take responsibility for not adding capacity in accordance with the added users.

2. Irrelevant WRT net neutrality.

3. Networks need to be managed but they need to be managed by adding capacity, not strangling the use of the existing capacity.

4. 100% wrong. Internet carriers would either slow _everything_ down as capacity maxes out or, in an effort to be competitive would add capacity and keep customers from jumping ship to companies that actually gave a crap about their customer base (AT&T obviously doesn’t).

5. Agreed in principle, but this is not really a big part of what netneut is all about.

AT&T is again revealing themselves to be anti-competition and anti-consumer. Really, it’s a wonder people people put up with their behavior. No device is worth that.

]]> By: FreedomLover http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/10/21/att-employees-asked-to-turn-lobbyist-over-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-220737 FreedomLover Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:58:56 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/10/21/att-employees-asked-to-turn-lobbyist-over-net-neutrality/#comment-220737 My, oh, my, is the mighty feeling desparate now? My, oh, my, is the mighty feeling desparate now?

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