Comments on: Verizon, just another AT&T http://wordvirus.us/2009/11/verizon-just-another-att/ The word is now a virus. - William S. Burroughs Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:26:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt bennett http://wordvirus.us/2009/11/verizon-just-another-att/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Matt bennett Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:22:10 +0000 http://wordvirus.us/?p=1751#comment-38 I feel you about the whole false advertising thing. And also why do they have to make things like internet and texting so much. If they made their services cheaper they would have more business and in turn that would increase their gross income over a certai period of time. They piss me off with that stuff. I have Tmobile and they even piss me off. But all in all if possible anyone should stick with iphone and the company they have. I feel you about the whole false advertising thing. And also why do they have to make things like internet and texting so much. If they made their services cheaper they would have more business and in turn that would increase their gross income over a certai period of time. They piss me off with that stuff. I have Tmobile and they even piss me off. But all in all if possible anyone should stick with iphone and the company they have.

]]> By: Tanner http://wordvirus.us/2009/11/verizon-just-another-att/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Tanner Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:38 +0000 http://wordvirus.us/?p=1751#comment-21 Infrastructure is key. This smart phone thing is not a fad. Rich data is here to stay. Here in a few years I think we'll see the switch from providers being in control from point of sale to termination, and instead see them as infrastructure providers, where users are able to shop around for service providers. Google is well ahead of the game, already negotiating rates and laying line to use mobile networks and land lines interchangeably, over multiple providers, all seamless to the end user. (See also the future of Google Voice) At the end of the day, we're talking mobile internet devices now. Not cell phones. Who cares if you're on AT&T or Verizon at the moment as long as your web pages load, apps work, and calls go through. The sooner we reach the separation of infrastructure provider from service provider, the better off we'll all be. I want my service provider negotiating rates with their infrastructure providers to get ME the best deal they can. I want Google, or Skype, or the next fellow to enter the space, competing against each other for my business, while AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Cox, and Southwestern Bell fight for theirs. We're close. Very close. Just need a few more nudges and this whole Cell Phone extortion thing will work itself it. Infrastructure is key. This smart phone thing is not a fad. Rich data is here to stay.

Here in a few years I think we’ll see the switch from providers being in control from point of sale to termination, and instead see them as infrastructure providers, where users are able to shop around for service providers.

Google is well ahead of the game, already negotiating rates and laying line to use mobile networks and land lines interchangeably, over multiple providers, all seamless to the end user. (See also the future of Google Voice)

At the end of the day, we’re talking mobile internet devices now. Not cell phones. Who cares if you’re on AT&T or Verizon at the moment as long as your web pages load, apps work, and calls go through.

The sooner we reach the separation of infrastructure provider from service provider, the better off we’ll all be. I want my service provider negotiating rates with their infrastructure providers to get ME the best deal they can. I want Google, or Skype, or the next fellow to enter the space, competing against each other for my business, while AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Cox, and Southwestern Bell fight for theirs.

We’re close. Very close. Just need a few more nudges and this whole Cell Phone extortion thing will work itself it.

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