AT&T and Verizon Not to Quarrel in Court Anymore
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I don’t know if you should be happy or sad to see AT&T drop that injunction trial against Verizon. It’s fun to see giant wireless services providers at quarrel over various issues. In theory, we, the consumers that send them precious cash each month, could benefit from all that fighting.
Let’s take this particular case here! AT&T has decided to sue Verizon after the latter one aired those infamous “There’s a Map for That” campaigns a while ago. Alleging that Verizon is misleading customers with those ads, AT&T lost in court and we were expecting it to fight back with an appeal on December 16. But that’s not going to happen as AT&T decided to abandon the trial. AT&T filed an official dismissal of the case and so did Verizon. But I bet that both parties will continue airing the ads we’ve seen so far.
So what do you say folks? Do you feel like you’re the real winners here? While AT&T and Verizon decided not to continue a public fight in which they could both get hurt, that doesn’t mean either one of them is the perfect carrier you were looking for.
AT&T should expand its 3G coverage in order not to give any more reasons to carriers like Verizon to mock its performance. Furthermore AT&T has to deal with its iPhone service-related problems. Ask anyone with an AT&T iPhone in their hands and they will probably complain about dropped calls and slow speeds in crowded areas. AT&T has acknowledged those issues and deep down it must know that such poor performance will make Apple consider other carriers instead of prolonging an exclusivity deal.
Verizon on the other hand has better 3G coverage but its 3G network is slower than AT&T’s, at least in theory. While its service is said to be great Verizon should concentrate its efforts on launching LTE as fast as possible. A Verizon iPhone could also prove to be a hit move which should bring more balance to the force.
As you can see we don’t really care who would win in court. Whether it’s AT&T or Verizon we can still hope that both carriers will have even better mobile services to offer in the year to come. And while we’re at it, T-Mobile and Sprint should also sharpen their weapons as 2010 will bring new fights in the U.S. mobile business.
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I know why both dropped the lawsuit it’s because that they don’t want any more spotlight on them then they need now because of FCC issues. I have friends that work for both companies at a mid and upper management level. From the stories I hear both companies have their hands dirty and are in fact using Monopolization of technologies, both customer service agreements & exclusive cell phone agreements and internet backbones. Both have Antitrust issues related to Net Neutrality, some instances of No backup or reroute for fiber cuts and hardware failures, Call Center Issues, Backbone issues, another example is some dual ring sonnet were a fiber cut takes both rings down, which is actually not redundant as they want you to believe. Also they discriminate against certain network traffic, drop packets on both there fiber and 3-g network in the excuse of they are “manages network reliability”. Which I know is hog wash.
Net Neutrality = no Censorship or policing to any type of traffic on the network as long as you’re paying for the bandwidth.
AT&T Does not want people to have the same cell phone number, and the same home phone number, Fax number, (Can do with VOIP) and theater any device at all even with a paying customer bandwidth.
I agree with the Whitehouse on comparing AT&T’s opposition to net neutrality to China’s censorship of Internet content. “If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your network backbone company does it,”
Tom Anderson it is not about free service, it’s about dictating what kind of traffic can go on a customer’s network.
I think the FCC should go after both with antitrust issues, Reliability issues, and many of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 issues of the last few years. I think they should break up AT&T like they did to Ma Bell because of Monopolization. AT&T wants you to think there is competition so they can monopolize, however the new ma bell and the old ma bell are not to different in regards Monopolization. The FCC should implement A new consumers advanced telecommunications services rule which does not allow the Telco’s to any type of traffic on the network as long as the customers paying for the bandwidth, Let customers keep the same number for all Telco communication devices no matter what they are, For the major Telco’s get fined when they say Monopolize the I-Phone. Also include certain marketing rules were you can get out of a 2 year contract for bad service. I am surprised that consumer reports did not look into this. There also should be new whistle blower laws when it comes to Telecommunications because of the sensitive nature of it for our national security, and the possibility of services that go overseas, the access to telecom switches/ customer’s backbones could be used by foreign nationals or rogue nations to cyber attack our country. Also were developers in foreign nations and with foreign nationals who make applications, code for backbone switches or routers which could have a virus in it. There are many code issues that the FCC or government does not know about. They also do not do background checks to these people working on the code,access lists, applications and that many Telco call centers have been farmed out to other 3rd world nations like Pakistan, Iran ,Singapore, Manila & Mumbai Philippines , India, Bangladesh and China. All of these people do not get background checks or drug screens and is a huge security risk to our country.
Also the FCC should make political contributions and lobbyist laws were they are transparent to who is getting the money for what issue. Over the last 5 years tens of Millions are used for contributions to lobbyist groups and politicians and in their pockets. Lobbyist hopes to pull political favors to get what they want at consumers and middle class expense.
I know why both dropped the lawsuit it’s because that they don’t want any more spotlight on them then they need now because of FCC issues. I have friends that work for both companies at a mid and upper management level. From the stories I hear both companies have their hands dirty and are in fact using Monopolization of technologies, both customer service agreements & exclusive cell phone agreements and internet backbones. Both have Antitrust issues related to Net Neutrality, some instances of No backup or reroute for fiber cuts and hardware failures, Call Center Issues, Backbone issues, another example is some dual ring sonnet were a fiber cut takes both rings down, which is actually not redundant as they want you to believe. Also they discriminate against certain network traffic, drop packets on both there fiber and 3-g network in the excuse of they are “manages network reliability”. Which I know is hog wash.
Net Neutrality = no Censorship or policing to any type of traffic on the network as long as you’re paying for the bandwidth.
AT&T Does not want people to have the same cell phone number, and the same home phone number, Fax number, (Can do with VOIP) and theater any device at all even with a paying customer bandwidth.
I agree with the Whitehouse on comparing AT&T’s opposition to net neutrality to China’s censorship of Internet content. “If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your network backbone company does it,”
Tom Anderson it is not about free service, it’s about dictating what kind of traffic can go on a customer’s network.
I think the FCC should go after both with antitrust issues, Reliability issues, and many of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 issues of the last few years. I think they should break up AT&T like they did to Ma Bell because of Monopolization. AT&T wants you to think there is competition so they can monopolize, however the new ma bell and the old ma bell are not to different in regards Monopolization. The FCC should implement A new consumers advanced telecommunications services rule which does not allow the Telco’s to any type of traffic on the network as long as the customers paying for the bandwidth, Let customers keep the same number for all Telco communication devices no matter what they are, For the major Telco’s get fined when they say Monopolize the I-Phone. Also include certain marketing rules were you can get out of a 2 year contract for bad service. I am surprised that consumer reports did not look into this. There also should be new whistle blower laws when it comes to Telecommunications because of the sensitive nature of it for our national security, and the possibility of services that go overseas, the access to telecom switches/ customer’s backbones could be used by foreign nationals or rogue nations to cyber attack our country. Also were developers in foreign nations and with foreign nationals who make applications, code for backbone switches or routers which could have a virus in it. There are many code issues that the FCC or government does not know about. They also do not do background checks to these people working on the code,access lists, applications and that many Telco call centers have been farmed out to other 3rd world nations like Pakistan, Iran ,Singapore, Manila & Mumbai Philippines , India, Bangladesh and China. All of these people do not get background checks or drug screens and is a huge security risk to our country.
Also the FCC should make political contributions and lobbyist laws were they are transparent to who is getting the money for what issue. Over the last 5 years tens of Millions are used for contributions to lobbyist groups and politicians and in their pockets. Lobbyist hopes to pull political favors to get what they want at consumers and middle class expense.