JDgreen227
Super Member
And.....according to my township authorities, there are 137 single family homes within one mile of mine....to call my area "rural" is stupid beyond logic.
My Telephone providers are idiots
- Thread starter phiferpharm
- Start date
- Views: 14072
k0ua
Epic Contributor
I see that my attempt at rational explanation of why things are the way they are did not work out too well. I am sure it is terribly frustrating to see a neighbor 3 miles away have a fast service and you cannot get it. Some of you have suggested a "county" business model, provide service anywhere in a county, and be forced to provide it for everyone in the county.. I see that some of you have never had to run a profitable business or even been associated with one.
Corporations are in business to make a profit for their stockholders. Some of you that have investments in the stock market may be able to appreciate that. Maybe not. Why any of you feel you are "owed" a particular service I do not understand. No corporation is going to make capital investments unless those investments can be shown by good financial analysis to pay back the investment and show a profit. A fiber fed DSLAM can easily cost a million dollars to install and to feed what? a few or a few dozen subscribers? Have you done the math to find the payback time for that capital investment?. How large of a monthly bill are you willing to pay to have that build out done?
Some of you think corporations are mindless greedy evil entities. Well I suppose they are. Their goal is to show a profit to their stockholders. If there is money to be made in an enterprise some other mindless greedy evil corporation will attempt to undercut the pricing of the first mindless greedy evil corporation and take their business. To do otherwise violates the Sherman Anti-trust act.
I personally don't think we are going to have rural telco's around that many more years. The growth is negative, and you can only sustain negative growth for so long. Of course like I said they are trying to survive by focusing on the delivery of data portion of the business. NOT the voice services.
As I said before I have NO dog anymore in the telco industry, but if you think "those greedy bas>>>>" are getting rich, you better think again. They are struggling to survive and come up with innovative ways to compete. You can believe this is you want and if you don't I don't give a rats.... I am telling you what I saw as an ex industry insider.
Corporations are in business to make a profit for their stockholders. Some of you that have investments in the stock market may be able to appreciate that. Maybe not. Why any of you feel you are "owed" a particular service I do not understand. No corporation is going to make capital investments unless those investments can be shown by good financial analysis to pay back the investment and show a profit. A fiber fed DSLAM can easily cost a million dollars to install and to feed what? a few or a few dozen subscribers? Have you done the math to find the payback time for that capital investment?. How large of a monthly bill are you willing to pay to have that build out done?
Some of you think corporations are mindless greedy evil entities. Well I suppose they are. Their goal is to show a profit to their stockholders. If there is money to be made in an enterprise some other mindless greedy evil corporation will attempt to undercut the pricing of the first mindless greedy evil corporation and take their business. To do otherwise violates the Sherman Anti-trust act.
I personally don't think we are going to have rural telco's around that many more years. The growth is negative, and you can only sustain negative growth for so long. Of course like I said they are trying to survive by focusing on the delivery of data portion of the business. NOT the voice services.
As I said before I have NO dog anymore in the telco industry, but if you think "those greedy bas>>>>" are getting rich, you better think again. They are struggling to survive and come up with innovative ways to compete. You can believe this is you want and if you don't I don't give a rats.... I am telling you what I saw as an ex industry insider.
oosik
Epic Contributor
You know all this screaming & wailing about not having the latest in communication technology makes me laugh. I'm just glad we (the graduating class of '60) made it through our youth without all this technology. And to think - that big 'ol wooden box on the wall that you had to hand crank only made phone calls. I guess we were just fortunate to survive.
k0ua
Epic Contributor
How did we survive without our smartphones and broadband anyway? :laughing:
murphy1244
Super Star Member
- Joined
- Nov 25, 2011
- Messages
- 16,331
- Location
- Ohio
- Tractor
- Kubota 1120 RTV Kioti DK-40, MF-135, Ventrac 4500Y
Or using a Telex.
pmhowe
Silver Member
"I see that my attempt at rational explanation of why things are the way they are did not work out too well." Delightful understatement. James, you gave me my laugh for the day. Thank you.
CowboyRon
Platinum Member
15 meg comes in handy if you have a large family. You have one kid playing Xbox online, another watching YouTube or Netflix, and another surfing the web. At this speed everyone gets to do their thing without buffering.
CowboyRon
Platinum Member
I tried to explain to my kids what I didn't have when I was a kid. The list was almost endless, so I just told them I had a bicycle, a basketball, and baseball equipment.
buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
I got one of those on my wall.
