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AT&T CEO's "Only Regret" is Offering Unlimited Data Packages
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Love you fanboy guys. Apple making huge profit margin = GREAT. ATT&T making small profit margin = EVIL.
The difference is that Apple provides quality products that are worth the prices they charge.
All AT&T provides for their prices are crappy service, slow data, and more restrictions. If AT&T provided service that matched their prices, few people would be complaining about them.
*THATS* his regret? Unlimited data?
How about that waste-of-time, cost the company $4B in cash & spectrum, colossal strategy ****up known as the T-Mobile merger? That set AT&T back 2-3 years in terms of spectrum acquisitions for LTE and beyond. Not only did they lose $3B in cash they needed to invest in their network, they lost AWS spectrum they could have used to build out more LTE. Now they have to go out and spend 6-7B to get Dish Network's 40MHz AWS-adjacent spectrum and use that to match up with Verizon.
This mistake cost them $10B. I'm having a hard time thinking that unlimited data cost them more.
How about that waste-of-time, cost the company $4B in cash & spectrum, colossal strategy ****up known as the T-Mobile merger? That set AT&T back 2-3 years in terms of spectrum acquisitions for LTE and beyond. Not only did they lose $3B in cash they needed to invest in their network, they lost AWS spectrum they could have used to build out more LTE. Now they have to go out and spend 6-7B to get Dish Network's 40MHz AWS-adjacent spectrum and use that to match up with Verizon.
This mistake cost them $10B. I'm having a hard time thinking that unlimited data cost them more.
Love you fanboy guys. Apple making huge profit margin = GREAT. ATT&T making small profit margin = EVIL.
But Apple is making it's huge profit margin FROM AT&T= Magnificent Bastards.
What are you smoking? AT&T building cellular infrastructure and has a whole company that supports that service. More use means a larger infrastructure and more people to support it.
Usage is growing faster than they can build infrastructure. I'm not a big AT&T fan either,but it's business model makes more sense to me than Apple's - the later of which hold BACK technology so that we will buy the next device while they make 30% profit. Now THAT'S a scam.
That is crazy!
Hi guys! I read MacRumors everyday however this is my first post! I had to comment.
All I can say is SERIOUSLY! AT&T is raking in the BIG bucks! I pay $30 per month for unlimited messaging for 2 people. iMessage is not hurting them at all. Not everyone has an iPhone. Too bad Apple didn't choose a different carrier to start out with. What a creep!
Hi guys! I read MacRumors everyday however this is my first post! I had to comment.
All I can say is SERIOUSLY! AT&T is raking in the BIG bucks! I pay $30 per month for unlimited messaging for 2 people. iMessage is not hurting them at all. Not everyone has an iPhone. Too bad Apple didn't choose a different carrier to start out with. What a creep!
They're in business to make money, not give it away.
Exactly.
"You lie awake at night worrying about what is that which will disrupt your business model"
I'm sorry, but what CEO says that besides one that thinks they're getting away with something in their current business model? And/or has no desire to evolve.
I'm sorry, but what CEO says that besides one that thinks they're getting away with something in their current business model? And/or has no desire to evolve.
I always thought introducing the unlocking service would hit sales hard as even new full priced iPhones could not be unlocked....
maybe next quarter we'll see a change in his disposition
maybe next quarter we'll see a change in his disposition
without the unlimited option, do you think ATT would have seen as massive of growth?
Love you fanboy guys. Apple making huge profit margin = GREAT. ATT&T making small profit margin = EVIL.
I think about it's how they go about it.
I am all for companies making profits. But when this ass stands up and says I should have never offered something and backs that up with throttling, well the next gen iPhone can't come soon enough so I can change service providers.
If you say so. Had I been at AT&T I would have developed a iMessage, FaceTime, and Talktime myself and sold the App on the iTunes store and Android store before Apple came around to doing it themselves. I would have made money selling those apps and inter-connecting my users. Instead, they sit on the legacy models and then whine when other companies take advantage of the new technologies.
Their greed right now will only bite them in the derriere later on. They need to get ahead of the curve if they don't want to end up being dumb data pipes. With the way they are headed though, it's hard not to predict AT&T has nothing up their sleeves.
I fail to see why it's greedy to worry about something which can cause bankruptcy. However, AT&T should adjust to the market and their users instead of whining about iMessage. It's not the users' problem (nor is it Apple's problem) that AT&T needs to reconsider what they charge for SMS. It wouldn't surprise me if AT&T are even lobbying against the existence of Skype and iMessage for security reasons (difficult to surveil).
"[iMessage] is disruptive to our messaging revenue stream"
He makes a point about the variable costs and unlimited data plans, then he has the gall to try to link that to their pure-profit texting revenue stream, which basically has zero costs beyond keeping their cell network online.
He makes a point about the variable costs and unlimited data plans, then he has the gall to try to link that to their pure-profit texting revenue stream, which basically has zero costs beyond keeping their cell network online.
That's great for the 10% who use a lot. What about the 90% who don't? You are basically wanting them to subsidize you. Lovely.
Michael
Well technically, one of the common criticisms of Apple is that they have pretty packages and form-factors but their hardware and specs are well behind their competitors... yet Apple still charges a premium for their products.
Yet you AT&T charge me more than any other carrier for basic phone service on all 4 of my iPhones yet the service is waning day by day.
My only regret was to agree to your $175 per line termination fee.
Signed a 10 year AT&T customer that will be no more
My only regret was to agree to your $175 per line termination fee.
Signed a 10 year AT&T customer that will be no more
That is an illegal business practice in the USA ever since the break up of Ma Bell in 1984. A single company may provide equipment or content/network services but not both. This prevents a proprietary network from having exclusive content control over their network. This is also why you will never see Orange in the USA.
As someone who owns AT&T stock (not intentionally, it's part of another fund I invest in), he's doing what he's supposed to do.
Not doing everything in your power to improve the value of the company for shareholders means he would be breaking his fiduciary responsibility to those shareholders.
That said, I hate AT&T's service. But I'm grandfathered into the unlimited plan, so I don't want to leave.
Not doing everything in your power to improve the value of the company for shareholders means he would be breaking his fiduciary responsibility to those shareholders.
That said, I hate AT&T's service. But I'm grandfathered into the unlimited plan, so I don't want to leave.
He doesn't lay awake worrying because he already "fixed" it. He knew that iMessage would allow many to drop to the lowest tier of messaging. So he just, you know, got rid of the lower tier. Unlimited texting or 1000 messages, no other options, ensures that iMessage doesn't cost ATT a dime. In fact, ATT is making more because there is no lower text option for new customers anymore. I would be on the 200 message plan if I could get there, but no dice. So I'm at $10 for 1000, costing me $60 a year plus tax. And most of my texts are iMessages...