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$12 billion class action filed against Centurylink
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:16 pm
Finally someone is taking a run at the most crooked company in the US.
Centurylink is vile. I've hated them for years.
I hope they get reamed.
Centurylink is vile. I've hated them for years.
I hope they get reamed.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:23 pm to Scoop
Lawyers will get $11,999,999,000 and wronged consumers will get a coupon for 5% off next month's service.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:25 pm to Scoop
Whew! I was looking at the stock recently. That dividend was pretty attractive. >10% if I do recall properly.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:26 pm to Scoop
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consumers harmed by an alleged high-pressure sales culture.
A high pressure sales culture? Onoz!
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:28 pm to Scoop
Seems like this "whistleblower" is just angry she got fired. Ran straight to a lawyer instead of the FCC, clearly just a money grab.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:32 pm to lionward2014
The whistle blower and the class action are separate cases.
This company is the worst.
Their business model is to be the sole provider for internet in rural areas and charge people a premium for 1.5 mbs internet.
This company is the worst.
Their business model is to be the sole provider for internet in rural areas and charge people a premium for 1.5 mbs internet.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:35 pm to Scoop
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This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 10:09 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:40 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Scumbag lawyers. They should do their job for free, am I right?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 6:06 pm to TexasTiger39
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It's capitalism
Are you out of your mind?
One of the pillars of Capitalism is competition.
Entities that provide the consumer the best product flourish and those that don't go away.
Companies like Centurylink survive because their customers are captives and therefore are abused.
This has nothing to do with Capitalism.
A company like Centurylink is the antithesis of capitalism. Most of their customers would leave given an alternative.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 6:13 pm to Scoop
In rural areas the PSC grants theme limited protection so they can recoup their investment running cable to lower populated areas. Simple economics.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 6:20 pm to cajuncarguy
bullshite.
They keep speeds low in rural areas where they have already put in the infrastructure and did so years ago.
My parents just got a bump 2 months ago from 1 mbs to 8 mbs on the same damn fiber that's been there for 10 years.
They paid through the arse to Centurylink for years like they had real internet. They begged for years.
I've been a customer of theirs for years as well. They are criminals and everyone that has them hates them, but you go ahead and knight for them.
They keep speeds low in rural areas where they have already put in the infrastructure and did so years ago.
My parents just got a bump 2 months ago from 1 mbs to 8 mbs on the same damn fiber that's been there for 10 years.
They paid through the arse to Centurylink for years like they had real internet. They begged for years.
I've been a customer of theirs for years as well. They are criminals and everyone that has them hates them, but you go ahead and knight for them.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 6:51 pm to CorkSoaker
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Scumbag lawyers. They should do their job for free, am I right?
No, but if there are actual victims they should receive meaningful compensation instead of having predatory tort lawyers swoop in and take the reparations for themselves.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:06 pm to Scoop
I worked for them (as CenturyTel) back in the previous decade. They pushed sales so much at that time that a sales attempt was part of customer service's QA, but if anyone was caught creating accounts they were quickly ejected. The upper management that was over CS at the time has all pretty much moved on by about a decade though.
The corporate vision has always been to pursue bringing modern(ish) telephony and internet service to little-served rural areas. I know they were aggressive as frick about it when DSL first came out, with new pops coming online damned near every month (I was doing IT there when we first acquired the Alabama properties). Even back then though they weren't as competitive as they could have been for speeds. Their point of costs of running such expensive lines and setting up remote shelfs for just a handful of customers has some weight, but when they are still offering only 1.5M after a decade of servicing an area the ol' bullshite meter has to start pegging out.
If I remember correctly they have their own backbone (meaning cost to increasing speeds should be negligible), if not then the Level 3 merger would definitely give them that.
I remember years after they sold off their cellular business to Altell (after being one of the best in the country then letting it fall to shite out of neglect) they decided to get back into the cellular game by being a Cingular reseller. The plans would have been good about 5-10 years earlier and I even voiced this in a meeting, but they went ahead with it anyway. Their sales stratagem was in providing "buckets of minutes", I still remember being in training on this and thinking "bucket of shite".
The good thing about all this is that their stock pays ~9%. If it goes below $20, it might end up being a good buy depending on who succeeds Post (Post, the CEO, has been the driving force behind their growth since the early 90's but is 65 so will probably begin eyeing the exit door soon).
The corporate vision has always been to pursue bringing modern(ish) telephony and internet service to little-served rural areas. I know they were aggressive as frick about it when DSL first came out, with new pops coming online damned near every month (I was doing IT there when we first acquired the Alabama properties). Even back then though they weren't as competitive as they could have been for speeds. Their point of costs of running such expensive lines and setting up remote shelfs for just a handful of customers has some weight, but when they are still offering only 1.5M after a decade of servicing an area the ol' bullshite meter has to start pegging out.
If I remember correctly they have their own backbone (meaning cost to increasing speeds should be negligible), if not then the Level 3 merger would definitely give them that.
I remember years after they sold off their cellular business to Altell (after being one of the best in the country then letting it fall to shite out of neglect) they decided to get back into the cellular game by being a Cingular reseller. The plans would have been good about 5-10 years earlier and I even voiced this in a meeting, but they went ahead with it anyway. Their sales stratagem was in providing "buckets of minutes", I still remember being in training on this and thinking "bucket of shite".
The good thing about all this is that their stock pays ~9%. If it goes below $20, it might end up being a good buy depending on who succeeds Post (Post, the CEO, has been the driving force behind their growth since the early 90's but is 65 so will probably begin eyeing the exit door soon).
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:15 pm to Scoop
Yep, I just moved to Colorado, awesome, happy to be here, I have one choice for internet. I would kill for competition.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:32 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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No, but if there are actual victims they should receive meaningful compensation instead of having predatory tort lawyers swoop in and take the reparations for themselves.
Then I guess they should read a book or two and represent themselves in court.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 8:05 pm to CorkSoaker
Like I have said. Centurylink's business model has been to lay fiber in underserved areas and charge these people 2017 prices for 2003 internet speeds.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 8:17 pm to Scoop
I've actually done some work with CenturyLink and am not a fan by any means, but there is no way in hell their customer service is worse than Comcast.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 8:22 pm to zacata88
Louisiana only had a 2-3 publicly traded companies left don't we?
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