Cellular South Quits CTIA Over Perceived Favoritism
Why doesn't this guy know by now
You have to pay these board members off like at&t and verizon are doing.
Thats business and politics.
The only other way is to get a GREAT number of people on your side, because groups of people get things don't not individual people.
Disrespect said:
that I takes money to make money.
You have to pay these board members off like at&t and verizon are doing.
Thats business and politics.
The only other way is to get a GREAT number of people on your side, because groups of people get things don't not individual people.
No matter, either VZW, Sprint or AT&T will assimilate them into their Borg Cubes, sooner or later.
For 2 companies to be about half of the industry is not healthy. AT&T and Verizon could bury the rest of the industry with their economies of scale.
Usually innovation comes from the smaller carriers. Neither Verizon or AT&T are a good value, they are the most expensive carriers in the U.S. Marketplace.
In many cases they stifle development because it would not give them a clear advantage. Verizon is why CDMA customers can't talk and surf simultaneously. Their refusal to adopt a superior technology (EVDV) because they had already invested in EVDO killed EVDV in this country. Since Verizon had about 2/3 ...
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VZWTestman said:
Absolutely, but customers have the best tool to get carriers to change their businesses practice, their money. If customers do not like the way a company is operating all it has to do is switch to a competitor. If enough customers switch then the company would have to rethink their business strategy.
You also have to look at what's available in each market. My market has Verizon, AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, USCC, T-Mobile, & Cricket. Cricket was the only new addition to my area in 2008. Prior to that, Cingular acquiring AT&T Wireless swallowed up a competitor (eventually Cingular took the AT&T name), and before that, USCC buys out the rest of Primeco that Verizon wasn't allowed to acquire in...
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I agree that the FCC should never have allowed the ATTWS, Nextel and Alltel buyouts, but the administration at the time was not big on regulations and with every approval it made it harder to deny the next one. Ah well...we all...
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The problem is when a carrier gets so big by buying other carriers then they create a "have and have not" marketplace. The big boys get to dictate the market. They use their economies of scale to advertise, which both carriers do effectively so that their name is the only one prospective customers hear. It's kind of like the BCS, many contenders but consideration only for the fortunate few. It would be one thing if these companies got that big by sales growth instead of getting just big enough to buy someone else.
While most of the mergers and aquisitions happened during the Bush Years, the biggest one, the Verizon merger ( Bell Atlantic, GTE, Airtouch and Primeco) ha...
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What's wrong with buyouts? Do you really miss these companies? If someone misses Nextel, they should just get Boost. It's the same thing.
How is it good for any industry for there to be fewer players?
The system was designed to have 5-7 competitors in each market, not 4 occupying all 7 frequency blocks. That would have forced competition and innovation. As it is the big four (and I sell three of them) are not very innovative. They don't have to be becausethere are not the 5th, 6th and 7th competitor vying for attention and market share. There are really only 3 choices in the marketplace Sprint, T-mobile and Verizon/AT&T. Nothing differentiates AT&T from Verizon.
So AT&T uses Apple's credibility and Verizon spends bilions on TV ads. But they are really the same as far as rates are concerned.
More players would force more inno...
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CS2006 said:...
Qualcomm killed EVDV because it had no takers.
How is it good for any industry for there to be fewer players?
The system was designed to have 5-7 competitors in each market, not 4 occupying all 7 frequency blocks. That would have forced competition and innovation. As it is the big four (and I sell three of them) are not very innovative. They don't have to be becausethere are not the 5th, 6th and 7th competitor vying for attention and market share. There are really only 3 choices in the marketplace Sprint, T-mobile and Verizon/AT&T. Nothing differentiates AT&T from Verizon.
So AT&T uses Apple's credibility and Verizon spends bilions on TV ads. But they are really the same as far as rates are concerned.
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That was the first domino to fall.
For AT&T and Verizon to drop their unlimited plan by $30.00 is a bit deceptive when voice minutes of use are way down and messaging is on the rise. They did not reduce the price of messaging at all.
We compete with Cricket in my market and not everyone is as impressed with unlimited minutes when they are aware that they do not use them. We successfully move people from unnlimited to limited plans all of the time because people are looking for a better experience than what Cricket can give them whether ...
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