Threadcraps from Greenman's Comcast thread

[techs]

These posts are thread craps and responses to craps from Greenman's Comcast thread. They constituted a third of the thread. Why you people have to bring up political tangential bullshit in everything I don't understand. Do you really live your lives that way?

AT Moderator ElFenix


The free, unregulated market provides the very best in service.

Although for some reason my Comcast phone has been down numerous times over the last year alone while my well regulated Fairpoint telephone service has not been down in 2.5 years.

 

[Greenman]

The free, unregulated market provides the very best in service.

Although for some reason my Comcast phone has been down numerous times over the last year alone while my well regulated Fairpoint telephone service has not been down in 2.5 years.

That's all well and good, and a dandy topic for P&N, as I'm sure that a well regulated industry always provides superior service, and never makes a mistake.

 

[KeithP]

The free, unregulated market provides the very best in service.

Although for some reason my Comcast phone has been down numerous times over the last year alone while my well regulated Fairpoint telephone service has not been down in 2.5 years.

The cable industry is not a "free, unregulated market".

-KeithP

 

[phucheneh]

The cable industry is not a "free, unregulated market".

-KeithP

Deregulation is what has allowed monopolies/oligopolies to thrive.

It's a 'free market.' As in, the freedom exists for it to be bought and controlled by those with the deepest pockets.

'Free' is a terrifically paradoxical word.

 

[ussfletcher]

The free, unregulated market provides the very best in service.

Although for some reason my Comcast phone has been down numerous times over the last year alone while my well regulated Fairpoint telephone service has not been down in 2.5 years.

Anyway, that is because actual phone lines are much more reliable. Packet switching has its drawbacks.

 

[dmcowen674]

I need that fax number, I've had it for years and everyone I do business with uses it.

Help me AT, you're my only hope.

Clifs:

Comcast mistakenly turns my phone off and gives the number to someone else.

Awesome. This is what Americans want and deserve.

Getting screwed with no lube. :thumbsup:

 

[Greenman]

Awesome. This is what Americans want and deserve.

Getting screwed with no lube. :thumbsup:

You're an idiot Dave. Ignorant, hateful, envious of anyone that has more than fifty dollars in the bank. Go back to whatever wretched hole you crawled out of.

 

[CZroe]

The cable industry is not a "free, unregulated market".

-KeithP

It's probably the phone market deregulation that allowed it to be transferred to an entity outside of Comcast.

 

[dmcowen674]

You're an idiot Dave. Ignorant, hateful, envious of anyone that has more than fifty dollars in the bank. Go back to whatever wretched hole you crawled out of.

I may be all of what you said but I am also right.

 

[KK]

I may be all of what you said but I am also right.

You also can go ride your motorcycle again.

 

[sze5003]

You also can go ride your motorcycle again.

Lol that's cold

 

[KK]

Lol that's cold

Too soon?

 

[drebo]

It's probably the phone market deregulation that allowed it to be transferred to an entity outside of Comcast.

Would you rather the local LEC be the only company able to offer you service? Because that's the alternative.

Either way, LNP is a completely unverified process. I can place an order for any phone number in a LATA in which I have origination capabilities and that number will port. One of my carriers has, on occasion, accidentally ported the wrong number a couple of times. It happens. Ultimately, it's up to the losing carrier (Comcast in this case) to verify that the number being ported out belongs to the person trying to port it out.

Comcast should be capable of porting that number back in.

That said, your run of the mill Comcast rep will have no idea what "porting" actually is. In fact, I've had a customer pay me to forward calls because his Comcast rep didn't know how to place an order to port a phone number in. He kept insisting that I had to "release" the number first. He had no fucking clue.

The telecommunications laws in this country are in dire need of updating, but the problems here are not with deregulation. The problems are with Comcast. They are not a phone company and, despite pretending to be one, they have not trained their staff adequately to deal with issues which arise as a result of offering phone service. This blame is on Comcast.

 

[CZroe]

Would you rather the local LEC be the only company able to offer you service? Because that's the alternative.

Either way, LNP is a completely unverified process. I can place an order for any phone number in a LATA in which I have origination capabilities and that number will port. One of my carriers has, on occasion, accidentally ported the wrong number a couple of times. It happens. Ultimately, it's up to the losing carrier (Comcast in this case) to verify that the number being ported out belongs to the person trying to port it out.

Comcast should be capable of porting that number back in.

That said, your run of the mill Comcast rep will have no idea what "porting" actually is. In fact, I've had a customer pay me to forward calls because his Comcast rep didn't know how to place an order to port a phone number in. He kept insisting that I had to "release" the number first. He had no fucking clue.

The telecommunications laws in this country are in dire need of updating, but the problems here are not with deregulation. The problems are with Comcast. They are not a phone company and, despite pretending to be one, they have not trained their staff adequately to deal with issues which arise as a result of offering phone service. This blame is on Comcast.

I wasn't making commentary. I'm just trying to explain what deregulated he may have been talking about. I know too little about the process.

 

[RossMAN]

These posts are thread craps and responses to craps from Greenman's Comcast thread. They constituted a third of the thread. Why you people have to bring up political tangential bullshit in everything I don't understand. Do you really live your lives that way?

AT Moderator ElFenix

:whiste:

 

[dmcowen674]

These posts are thread craps and responses to craps from Greenman's Comcast thread. They constituted a third of the thread. Why you people have to bring up political tangential bullshit in everything I don't understand. Do you really live your lives that way?

AT Moderator ElFenix


Do you dispute Americans deserve to get screwed?

 

[techs]

These posts are thread craps and responses to craps from Greenman's Comcast thread. They constituted a third of the thread. Why you people have to bring up political tangential bullshit in everything I don't understand. Do you really live your lives that way?

AT Moderator ElFenix


The free, unregulated market provides the very best in service.

Although for some reason my Comcast phone has been down numerous times over the last year alone while my well regulated Fairpoint telephone service has not been down in 2.5 years.

Apparently the ten posts that were threadcapped two weeks ago by the most lunatic fringe of AT were ok. I'm talking about people posting gun thread shit in thread about candy bars. And not just one but three or four.

The lunatic fringe have taken over. The issue of poor phone service from a cable company has 11 billion web links (well a ton of them) on any web search.
How could we NOT discuss this in this thread. It is pertinent to the threads op. It is a hugely debated issue in this country. We have tons of threads about cable internet in OT and we routinely discuss regulation.

 

[olds]

These posts are thread craps and responses to craps from Greenman's Comcast thread. They constituted a third of the thread. Why you people have to bring up political tangential bullshit in everything I don't understand. Do you really live your lives that way?

AT Moderator ElFenix

Because this is OT, not a Tech forum. Are you telling us the rules are changing?

 

[ElFenix]

Because this is OT, not a Tech forum. Are you telling us the rules are changing?

This isn't P&N either.

AT Moderator ElFenix