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I worked at #1! The place all this went bad was when big cable and AT&T got into the game and flushed out all the rest of the competition. Comcast is a repreh
by ataturk 9y ago
I worked at #1! The place all this went bad was when big cable and AT&T got into the game and flushed out all the rest of the competition.
Comcast is a reprehensible company from top to bottom--the pricing sucks, cable tv sucks, bundling sucks, and their customer service SUCKS! So I won't do business with them and am relegated to crappy DSL from Frontier which also SUCKS, just not as bad as Comcast as a company. How did we ever get into this situation?
Granted the ISP I worked at was mostly dialup at the time, but they ran a decent business with decent service. The Mom & Pop ISPs in the rural areas were so cool back then--real American entrepreneurs, which starkly contrast with the robber barons.
- baud147258 9y agoIf the Mom & Pop -- real American entrepreneurs -- had grew to national scale, would they have become robber barons? It is just a consequence of size or is more complex than that?
- ethbro 9y agoPublicly traded vs private. I.e. whether investors are okay with steady return or always pushing for profit growth.