Comments on: ATT braces for more hangups

By: Dan, Staten Island NY

Dan, Staten Island NY — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:35:35 +0000

My wife and I gave up our land line and cable last year due to a rise in living expenses. We have a cell phone family plan which we will be switching to pay per minute when our contract expires and netflix has replaced cable tv. It saves us over $100 a month.

By: R Mills Redding, Ca

R Mills Redding, Ca — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:01:59 +0000

So Sad; I can’t qualify for internet; they claim my line in the street won’t pass. One other neighbor ahs the same problem. Television? A way off dream yet I watched them put in their fiber optic 10 years ago+ 4 blocks away.

The question; Do they just want to fail?

Bob

By: Travis, Fremont, CA

Travis, Fremont, CA — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:20:08 +0000

For a family, home business owner or those still using a computer modem, I can understand having a home landline. But for any single person to have a landline makes no sense to me. I dumped mine almost 3 years ago, never used it. Use my cell phone for everything and it goes with me anywhere.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:29:51 +0000

I switched from a land line to a cell phone a little over four years ago, and haven’t regretted it once. Overall, it’s cheaper and certainly more convenient.

By: Zoltan Rab, Winston-Salem, NC

Zoltan Rab, Winston-Salem, NC — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:21:35 +0000

Excuse me for not having tears in my eyes learning the wireless phone service providers are suffering. The suffering was first there on the side of the consumers who were complaining about the very poor service these companies provided without any chance for remedy.

We, the customers (small fish), had very little leverage against the corporations (big fish) that treated us a cattle. Complaints were disregarded if they were even recorded. Lost connections, undelivered voice mail messages, “dead spots” (contradicting coverage maps) were frequent, but we were made to believe that those are isolated problems that nobody else experienced.

It is time for payback! Thank you fellow consumers for not trusting your cell phone companies any more. Unite against the evil organizations and find the players that work hard for the hard earned dollars of yours. We will all benefit from that.

By: Joy, Dallas, Texas

Joy, Dallas, Texas — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:57:55 +0000

In addition to the reasons mentioned in this article, people are also defecting because ATT has once again raised it’s pricing for their Internet service and is ultimately going to price themselves out of customers. Why stay with landline/internet when you can have a much faster net experience, for what is basically the same cost with cable?