If you work for a Telco then you should understand the cost that go into maintaining their plant. Think of the people they pay in customer service to answer the install/repair call. Then the people they pay to dispatch you, the manager that manages you, the gas for your vehicle, the people they pay to fix your vehicle, the people that work in the CO's, switching, the line man to put the cable up. There are so many people involved.
I'm a county Firefighter, so of course I feel a sense of duty and obligation. I try to make a difference in my job. My father did work for a telco. I grew up worrying if we'd have a home because the Telcos usually lay off. But my dad got paid well, sure he worked 60 hours a week, but I had a great childhood. My dad did the work, the company provided him the opportunity. My father shares the same thoughts you convey Sanstorm. But why work there then?
Dawg....Because it pays more than flipping burgers. No one is argueing about working for them.. They definately don't pay well compared to their competitors I can tell you that first hand. You admit you are a fire fighter and now i understand why you don't understand why Verizon and AT&T are not a good thing. By your logic let's let AT&T/Verizon run the show and shut down the little guy. YOu are saying this even if you will deny it. Your logic brings that about by default. There's no other way. I wonder how many people would be working with competition vs. no competition. There would be significantly less people employed if there is less competition. So let me ask. Is only working for a LEC important or is having people employed in good jobs a good thing as well? You can't have both and ask yourself what is better. Do you not like competition? I don't know what your stance is here.. You act as if the phone company doesn't make money no matter what. SUre they maintain their plant and when they resell they make money just less. But the consumer benifits. I pay 25 a month and my vonage experience has been great. I know how to set up my network and I have a good ISP so it's not an issue. YOur Tax arguement is lame. The reason we can't drive 80 is it's unsafe. The same reason why d/ling kiddie porn is illegal. It harms other has nothing to do with "owning it". BTW I do own my bandwidth as long as I do what is within the TOS. IF you let the LEC have their way they will make it against their TOS to use voip or block it. What a great world when you can sell something and block any competition. What's next... no youtube we want to sell that to you via our crappy service... IF they can sell it to you and shut down someone else they will. It's MONEY MONEY MONEY nothing to do with their employees/customers. When they get robots to do it they will. trust me. And the FIOS plant will take way less maintenance and techs so yes they are going to FIRE a lot of people. IF you are ok with that then keep on keepin on..
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If you work for a Telco then you should understand the cost that go into maintaining their plant. Think of the people they pay in customer service to answer the install/repair call. Then the people they pay to dispatch you, the manager that manages you, the gas for your vehicle, the people they pay to fix your vehicle, the people that work in the CO's, switching, the line man to put the cable up. There are so many people involved.
I'm a county Firefighter, so of course I feel a sense of duty and obligation. I try to make a difference in my job. My father did work for a telco. I grew up worrying if we'd have a home because the Telcos usually lay off. But my dad got paid well, sure he worked 60 hours a week, but I had a great childhood. My dad did the work, the company provided him the opportunity. My father shares the same thoughts you convey Sanstorm. But why work there then?
Dawg....Because it pays more than flipping burgers. No one is argueing about working for them.. They definately don't pay well compared to their competitors I can tell you that first hand. You admit you are a fire fighter and now i understand why you don't understand why Verizon and AT&T are not a good thing. By your logic let's let AT&T/Verizon run the show and shut down the little guy. YOu are saying this even if you will deny it. Your logic brings that about by default. There's no other way. I wonder how many people would be working with competition vs. no competition. There would be significantly less people employed if there is less competition. So let me ask. Is only working for a LEC important or is having people employed in good jobs a good thing as well? You can't have both and ask yourself what is better. Do you not like competition? I don't know what your stance is here.. You act as if the phone company doesn't make money no matter what. SUre they maintain their plant and when they resell they make money just less. But the consumer benifits. I pay 25 a month and my vonage experience has been great. I know how to set up my network and I have a good ISP so it's not an issue. YOur Tax arguement is lame. The reason we can't drive 80 is it's unsafe. The same reason why d/ling kiddie porn is illegal. It harms other has nothing to do with "owning it". BTW I do own my bandwidth as long as I do what is within the TOS. IF you let the LEC have their way they will make it against their TOS to use voip or block it. What a great world when you can sell something and block any competition. What's next... no youtube we want to sell that to you via our crappy service... IF they can sell it to you and shut down someone else they will. It's MONEY MONEY MONEY nothing to do with their employees/customers. When they get robots to do it they will. trust me. And the FIOS plant will take way less maintenance and techs so yes they are going to FIRE a lot of people. IF you are ok with that then keep on keepin on..