This advertising is pure propaganda. ATT cannot provide my community with Uverse although its available to thousands of homes a mile away. The reason may be technical or monetary, so if ATT is unable to overcome those limitations, how the hell can they dump POTS and convert their system to a digital one ? Are they going to run fiber to every home--I doubt it. My phone service is currently delivered overhead wires on poles that run for 2 miles or so. I am fined every month for exceeding the bandwidth caps ATT imposed when they claimed that they must fine those that stream video or download video as those that do hog the internet. Wireline is far from being dead, as ATT will not run optical fiber to the "last mile" which means copper wire is doing the job. In fact ADSL was invented so that copper wire could be used to push high bandwidth information over the copper wire that has been in the ground for 50 years.I hope state and federal regulators are smart enough to see thru the lies and untruths that ATT is spreading in this video. I have 3 choices available for broadband where I live. 1. ATT DSL Extreme--a barely 3mbs service with usage caps and fines. 2. Comcast or 3. Hughes Satellite Internet service. I have 3 for Pay TV. 1. DirectTV 2. Dish network 3. Comcast. I use DirectTV for my TV provider, as Comcast is unable to provide a noise free video signal to my home, because as a Comcast tech told me, they wont spend the money to run a new trunk line out to my community, which is at the end of the line for CATV and POTS services. Copper wire is not obsolete, outdated, inferior, or "old technology." ATT wants to shirk its responsibility as a public service, and abandon its customers that prefer the POTS, under the guise that copper pairs are like fossils, long dead and of no use. Once they are unregulated by the states and the federal government, prices will increase, and already customer service will get worse. ATT has little competition in the regions it serves, all former Bell operating unit territories, other than Comcast or Time Warner. And by the way, Comcast delivers its services over copper wires, and no one has heard Comcast tell the world that copper wires are old obsolete technology for delivering media and telephone service. Yes I know about the differences between a coaxial cable and unshielded copper pairs, and analog vs digital signaling methods. But the point is that ATT is selling a bill of goods that benefit not the customer, but ATT. ATT as a public service company is a far cry from the former Bell system, both to its employees, and its customers. ATT treats its employees as if they were a company going bankrupt, and treats its customers as fools.
Obama and his Communist administration has advanced the Police State, encroaching on our freedoms and rights farther that any a US administration in history. The TSA gropes and molests you, search warrants are a thing of the past, the USAG runs guns to Mexico, and Obama ignores the Constitution and does what he wants.
The US is closer to Iran, China, and other police states than you think. All this because of King Obama. After the internet, Obama is going to want your guns and ammo. He will create a false flag incident to justify his actions.
Obama is a modern Stalin in brown skin.
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ATT Propaganda that copper wire is obsolete
This advertising is pure propaganda. ATT cannot provide my community with Uverse although its available to thousands of homes a mile away. The reason may be technical or monetary, so if ATT is unable to overcome those limitations, how the hell can they dump POTS and convert their system to a digital one ? Are they going to run fiber to every home--I doubt it. My phone service is currently delivered overhead wires on poles that run for 2 miles or so. I am fined every month for exceeding the bandwidth caps ATT imposed when they claimed that they must fine those that stream video or download video as those that do hog the internet. Wireline is far from being dead, as ATT will not run optical fiber to the "last mile" which means copper wire is doing the job. In fact ADSL was invented so that copper wire could be used to push high bandwidth information over the copper wire that has been in the ground for 50 years.I hope state and federal regulators are smart enough to see thru the lies and untruths that ATT is spreading in this video. I have 3 choices available for broadband where I live. 1. ATT DSL Extreme--a barely 3mbs service with usage caps and fines. 2. Comcast or 3. Hughes Satellite Internet service. I have 3 for Pay TV. 1. DirectTV 2. Dish network 3. Comcast. I use DirectTV for my TV provider, as Comcast is unable to provide a noise free video signal to my home, because as a Comcast tech told me, they wont spend the money to run a new trunk line out to my community, which is at the end of the line for CATV and POTS services. Copper wire is not obsolete, outdated, inferior, or "old technology." ATT wants to shirk its responsibility as a public service, and abandon its customers that prefer the POTS, under the guise that copper pairs are like fossils, long dead and of no use. Once they are unregulated by the states and the federal government, prices will increase, and already customer service will get worse. ATT has little competition in the regions it serves, all former Bell operating unit territories, other than Comcast or Time Warner. And by the way, Comcast delivers its services over copper wires, and no one has heard Comcast tell the world that copper wires are old obsolete technology for delivering media and telephone service. Yes I know about the differences between a coaxial cable and unshielded copper pairs, and analog vs digital signaling methods. But the point is that ATT is selling a bill of goods that benefit not the customer, but ATT. ATT as a public service company is a far cry from the former Bell system, both to its employees, and its customers. ATT treats its employees as if they were a company going bankrupt, and treats its customers as fools.
Obama and his thought police
Obama and his Communist administration has advanced the Police State, encroaching on our freedoms and rights farther that any a US administration in history. The TSA gropes and molests you, search warrants are a thing of the past, the USAG runs guns to Mexico, and Obama ignores the Constitution and does what he wants.
The US is closer to Iran, China, and other police states than you think. All this because of King Obama. After the internet, Obama is going to want your guns and ammo. He will create a false flag incident to justify his actions.
Obama is a modern Stalin in brown skin.