|
|
Visit Atcom to get started with your new business VoIP phone system ASAP
Turn up is quick, painless, and can often be done same day.
Let us show you how to do VoIP right, resulting in crystal clear call quality and easy-to-use features that make everyone happy!
Proudly serving Canada from coast to coast.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 17,742 Likes: 36
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 17,742 Likes: 36 |
I think the VOiP is the big issue, lots of large businesses use AT&T frame relay circuits and AT&T has been selling their call vantage to these business to reduce LD and private line voice cost. My biggest concern it SBC going to go the way of AT&T in customer service and employee dedication or the other way around, they already announced as a merged company they plan on laying off 13,000, hard to keep top notched employees when the only loyalty is to the CEO's bonus check. Just my 2 cents
Retired phone dude
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 462
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 462 |
Hey, what happens to Bell Labs ?????
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 22
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 22 |
Bell labs is part of the deal …SBC offer the local in a few states AT&T ‘s local cover areas SBC is not in today. SBC will get a huge amount of international exposure and call center products and some BT products AT&T buys.
Do not be surprised to see a lot of AT&T best practices and service support implemented in 2006/2007 .
SBC is getting the best telcom company going
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 1
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 1 |
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by 5years&counting:
I'm just curious what everyone thinks about the SBC purchase of AT&T? I guess the obvious thing that stands out is the irony of a "Baby Bell" buying "Ma Bell", after "Ma Bell" was broken up because it was too big. What other comments and thoughts have others come up with? They keep commenting on our network news that this is bad for competition. Duh! The only good thing I see coming out of it so far is that those poor saps who let AT&T take over their local service have now maybe been saved, by being brought back to the local carrier.
Funny. I guess this is progress!</font> Actually I think SBC is getting the hollow shell of AT&T. Contrary to the news reports from AT&T management a vast majority of the traffic handled by AT&T still is moved by 4E switches, old cranky and currently unreplaceable. The fun part mes from the fact the current management at AT&T has managed to lay off all the technical people that designed and programmed the control systems for the 4E switches. Good look to SBC if it wants to make any changes to intergrate SBC network and the AT&T rtnr network.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 290
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 290 |
cisco was rock solid untill there ios system
source code was dumped onto the internet.
by a hack to one of there suppliers which were using the code to build & test hardware. thousands, millons of routers at risk . even there patch dos not work & was exposed last week .cisco tryed to get the fbi to aresst the guy for showing how.cisco
and the ex sucurity analist came to terms
he promised not to demo in the future.even
if cisco does provide a good patch.how many
of these will not be upgraded .cisco's rock gotta crack in it.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 1
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 1 |
SBC buys AT&T. After that Verizon buys MCI. After that Verizon buys SBC then they are bought by Wal-mart or even worse; some company from Europe.
|
|
|
|
Forums84
Topics94,517
Posts639,972
Members49,848
| |
Most Online5,661
May 23rd, 2018
|
|
|
1 members (justbill),
205
guests, and
50
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
|
|
