From: 9 To 5 Mac ~ AT&T CEO: Recent price jacks due to AT&T’s attempt to monopolize GSM in US
AT&T has a grudge with the Federal Communications Commission, and during the mobile carrier’s quarterly earnings call today, CEO Randall Stephenson criticized the FCC over spectrum availability and the bombed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, with him further claiming AT&T’s spectrum crux is forcing jacked prices against its highest data users.
I am so dumping AT&T. This is really their view of you as a customer. Someone they can blackmail and jack around because our government won’t allow them to become a monopoly because we the people know they would turn around and act like even bigger dicks.
Their lack of bandwidth is because they refuse to put in enough of the right equipment to serve the density of customers they keep OVER selling.
It’s like selling internet access to ten people and while owning equipment allowing only four limited user connections at a time and then having the nerve to blame the customers and jack up the fees you agreed upon in the first place knowing you could not provide them proper service.
They did it on purpose to make money ripping off their customers and T-Mobile was only an excuse to get some used equipment real cheap so they did not have to invest in any new networks for a while. It’s very simple really they would end their self made “bandwidth crunch” with more investment into their infrastructure with better equipment, BUT… then the stock holders would not get those great returns they see now off those stupid customers already over paying for those ancient crumbling slow networks and the company would have to accept the realities of an economy in depression and that just does not work for them so you stupid customers must pay even more.
Nothing will keep them from selling you yet more bigger faster bandwidth hogging Android and Apple smartphones because they make money from that shit but god forbid they take that money and turn around and buy a proper network. Has not happened today and not gonna happen tomorrow. So expect this same excuse whenever their CEO needs another benefit increase because I expect he still got his benefits this year even after they took a 7 billion dollar dumpster dive you poor stupid customer.
Take my advice get the hell off AT&T NOW before they jack you up but good! Gee, where have we seen losers failing in their speculation and their risky business decisions and then handing the bill to the American people. I swear I have seen this show before. Was it something like planes, banks, and automobiles or…
I say let’s do a cut & paste copy of the European cell phone regulations here in the US and hang these guys out to dry. They require these fuckwads to cover all the areas and bandwidth they purchase with proper coverage OR THEY LOSE IT ALL. No buying frequencies for future use that they might get around to using in areas they might someday get around to servicing. Use it or lose it. Do your job or else we lease those frequencies to someone local who wants to do it properly!
