On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 05:26:49 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 6:21:56 AM UTC-5, Randull L. Stephenson wrote:
On 2/10/19 12:27 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
Nothing to do with corporate Kool Ade that AT&T did an immense
amount of innovation long before they were broken up. You dont
get Nobel Prizes for reducing the cost of running exchanges.


If you are using innovation as your metric, Comcast basically decimated AT&T here. Comcast offers gigabit fiber but AT$T only offers 6Mbps Slowverse.
Want TV from Slowverse? Here, nail this fugly dish up on your roof.


Looks to me like the only innovations at American Telegraph are their deceptive marketing lies.

https://arstechnica.com/information-...-service-5g-e/


Did Comcast invent the transistor? You're confusing buying and deploying
equipment, being faster to deploy new gear, more willing to invest in
infrastructure, with research and innovation.



They didn't invent the transistor so Sony could make little radios you
could hold up to your ear. They were trying to get rid of the half
billion relays in their switching equipment. It was still to support
the POTS business that they had no real intent on changing. With no
competition, why change a very successful business model?
The innovation I am talking about is what you offer the customer and
from the customer standpoint, POTS was pretty much the same service
for 80 years. Data was a side line that they grudgingly accepted but
you still had to use their modems and they had no interest in going
faster that 2400 BPS. It wasn't until they unbundled the phone lines
that companies like Paradyne started trellis modulation and got the
bit rate going faster than the baud rate. Then once the consumer
market opened companies like Hayes started modems that didn't cost
more than a car and with the lines unbundled you didn't have to rent
an AT&T coupler to hook it up.