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re: Switching from AT&T to Verizon

Posted on 8/15/16 at 9:30 pm to
Posted by VetteGuy
Member since Feb 2008
28164 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 9:30 pm to
People are willing to pay for modern equipment that doesn't fail during every emergency.


AT&T will lose a ton of business over this clusterfrick.

Posted by BayouFann
CenLa
Member since Jun 2012
6868 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 9:39 pm to
quote:

an you talk and browse at the same time with Verizon? Last time I had Verizon I couldn't.

quote:

Is that a big deal?

A very big deal for many! I've been caught quite a few times on the phone and had to quickly fetch some type of info or data. And simultaneously talk/browsing is great during waiting periods such as airports, apointments and such.
Posted by Clark W Griswold
THE USA
Member since Sep 2012
10509 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 9:39 pm to
I had unlimited with AT&T and they just kept slowing down my speed to prevent me from using it. Switched to a fixed data plan for cheaper and have never gone over it. Unlimited data isn't holding me back.
Posted by Hot Carl
Prayers up for 3
Member since Dec 2005
59048 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 9:51 pm to
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average 34 gigs of data a month


Brah, you never heard of WiFi?
Posted by Hot Carl
Prayers up for 3
Member since Dec 2005
59048 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 9:55 pm to
quote:

AT&T will lose a ton of business over this clusterfrick


Meh. They'll lose some, but it won't be as much as you think. They'll give some credits to those pissed enough to call and that'll satisfy most enough to stay. I don't blame people for leaving, but the hassle will prevent a mass exodus.
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
Member since Nov 2012
22898 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 9:56 pm to
Another brother has seen the light.
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
32095 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 10:16 pm to
Anyone know the technical reasons why AT&T are having so many problems with both their mobile and land lines?
Posted by Hammertime
Will trade dowsing rod for titties
Member since Jan 2012
43030 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 10:23 pm to
The landlines in my parent's hood in Metairie got screwed up by all of the water from Katrina, and intermittently worked until they replaced everything. They were all underground.

No idea why they didn't cover the area with mobile towers though
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
28707 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 11:06 pm to
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Anyone know the technical reasons why AT&T are having so many problems with both their mobile and land lines?
It's not a technical reason, it's a business reason. They have shown time and again no desire to upgrade their phone infrastructure. Instead they spend money on directv, and on bribing people into switching to their services.

They left my company without landlines for nearly an entire week earlier this year. You know what they offered? A six day credit. For failing to provide service to a business account. Know what else they did? They sent our account to collections exactly 1 day after our account was delinquent (we refused to pay for such horrid service). All because they had not upgraded the equipment that serviced our area for over 20 years (info gleaned from their on-site techs).

AT&T doesn't give two shits about their equipment or their existing customers. Their only concerns are acquiring new customers and appeasing enough existing customers with problems so that it doesn't hurt their bottom line too much. You are expendable. Do yourself a favor and switch to something, anything else.
Posted by LSUBeefMaster
Member since Nov 2007
158 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 11:23 pm to
So damn pathetic....2016 and having service like this from AT&T. !!!....
Posted by Big EZ Tiger
Member since Jul 2010
24268 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 11:34 pm to
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AT&T doesn't give two shits about their equipment or their existing customers. Their only concerns are acquiring new customers and appeasing enough existing customers with problems so that it doesn't hurt their bottom line too much. You are expendable. Do yourself a favor and switch to something, anything else.


I would say this is accurate for AT&T.
Posted by Chuker
St George, Louisiana
Member since Nov 2015
7544 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 11:37 pm to
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They have shown time and again no desire to upgrade their phone infrastructure.



Lately I've been traveling a road in Ms for work that Att has service on. When I first started traveling the route I noticed what looks like cat5 cable that ran alongside the road for a couple hundred yards. A week later there was another cat5 cable run along side of the first. Now over these three months there are a total of 5 white cat5 cables. It appears that there is a bad section of main line with difficult access so att is jumpering it around with the cat5. And I guess everytime a squirrel chews through the last good cable they run another one.

I have about another 6 weeks of this route so I'm curious as to how many cables will be strewn about by then.
Posted by andouille
A table near a waiter.
Member since Dec 2004
10704 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 11:45 pm to
I was with ATT for one contract, never, never, again. Verizon is substantially cheaper and I'm never out of service.

ATT for suckers.
Posted by Chum Bucket
West Palm Beach
Member since Oct 2011
977 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 12:05 am to
Just got back from camping near Cuchara,Co. and had service with Verizon, while my kids who are on AT&T had nothing for a week.
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