On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 1:27:52 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 08:13:08 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 9:21:55 AM UTC-5, wrote:
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.

Were you there? The phone system also had need for amplifiers, just like
a Sony radio. AT&T invested billions in all kinds of research, without
knowing what it would ultimately be used for. They won a Nobel prize for
trapping atoms with a laser, for example. That's pretty far away from
any immediate business need.

We were talking about innovation that made it's way to the customer.

No, I said that despite being a monopoly, AT&T spent a fortune on research that advanced science and technology, including the invention of the transistor, which speaks for itself. It changed the world. And that most certainly also reached customers, not only at AT&T but everywhere around the world. You can find a transistor today in even the poorest, most backwoods places on the planet. You denied that AT&T's research amounted to anything, that they had any interest in innovation at all.