billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | [TWC] Comcast to offer Mobile Phones, TWC next ??
In this article, COMCAST says they will have Cell phones, I hope that Time Warner follows suit and has a similar press release in the months to come.
For more, go to fiercewireless.com |
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pierce
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| said by billy2  :In this article, COMCAST says they will have Cell phones, I hope that Time Warner follows suit and has a similar press release in the months to come. For more, go to fiercewireless.com then your lifelong dream of ONEBILL will finally be fulfilled!!!!! |
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | yea. its about time |
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | »www.multichannel.com/article/307···ards.php |
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jnc2000
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Akron, OH
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TWC, COX, and Comcast tried this 3 years back and it failed miserably. The service was called pivot, and it was basically a rebranded sprint phone.
»birmingham.brighthouse.com/about···205.aspx
Not sure if they are attempting to do a re-launch... but I hope for the sake of the front line employees history does not repeat itself.
Edit: I see this is referencing WiMax... I wonder if they plan on relaunching a voice based service as well -- piggybacking Sprint's network.... |
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failurecoming
@verizon.net | it will fail. you just cant make money reselling another companys service. just look at the history of resellers: mci wireless reselling verizon phone, cable companies reselling sprint as pivot, tons of bankrupt CLEC's reselling ILEC service. |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16 | reply to billy2
So what is it about having ONE BILL that you find so cool? |
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willliam
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| said by Steve Mehs :So what is it about having ONE BILL that you find so cool? its easier for kids to ask their parents to pay for ONEBILL rather than multiple bills  |
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | FYI I pay my own bills, not my parents. One Bill does not find me "cool". Maybe it will fail, and maybe it wont. Hopefully the second time around it will be a success. Nothing will be done to around 2010 anyway . |
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Steve Mehs
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join:2005-07-16
| But that doesn't answer my question, why do you feel the need to have everything on ONEBILL? What difference does it really make. Time Warner is a cable company, and other then a short lived rebranding, that wasn't even launched nationally, the company has done nothing and shown no real interest in cellular service. |
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
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Re: [TWC] Comcast to offer Mobile Phones, TWC next ??
I just find it easier for me, I really have no reason,. most people have ONE BILL with Verizon and AT&T now anyways, and COX will be this year , followed by Comcast and TW Cable. Not sure about Cablevision and what there plans are. Its just something I want, I am not making this a drastic situation, If I am, its not meant to be that way |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
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1) Yes you are making this a drastic situation, it's obsessive compulsive. Just about every post you make somehow involves the idiotic notion that TW will launch a cellular service one day.
2) Verizon & AT&T are telcos who have wireless services, who are now video providers. They figured out how to make additional revenue on things they already had at their disposal.
3) I'm willing to bet Cox wireless will fail within a year
4) The Comcast thing is just a branding agreement with Sprint and Clearwire, what's the point.
5) I don't want portions of my cable bill to go towards putting up cell towers and obtaining roaming agreements so a cable company can go into an industry they have no business being in, I want it to go towards improving the services they already have.
6) You want easy? You can't much easier than this. My paycheck is direct deposited, I have a set amount going into my checking account, and the balance goes into my savings, everything I buy and subscribe to is put on credit, reoccurring monthly bills on my MasterCard, normal purchases on my Visa. I have automatic payments turned on with my bank so five days before the credit card bill is due, the balance gets paid off in full. You can't get much easier then that. And guess what, Time Warner and Nextel and AT&T Wireless are all on ONEBILL. I don't write checks, I don't pay my bills at the drug store, I don't mail in envelopes, I do nothing, everything is automatic. Now how much easier can you really get? I don't even look at the bill, as long as the total is correct thats all I care about. And my credit cards are rewards cards, so I get cash back. If you're waiting for TW to launch a cell phone service so you can have ONE BILL, you'll be waiting a long time. Plastic is your friend, use it!
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| well thats too bad that if you think its drastic of what I post on here, maybe if it actually does happen, guess you won't have anything else to say. You don't see me crticizing no ones , including your posts on here, but yet I am always the odd one out, I don't think its fair. I don't criticize no one for their posts on here and I expect the same, and yet I am the only one getting this, but all others seem to be "accepted". |
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
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why is it such a big deal of between Telco offering Video , which was no problem at all, but when it comes to Cable offering Wireless phone its a big deal, what is the big difference between the two , they should be evenly matched, but it seems like Telco offering video is favored more than Cable offering Wireless, the whole thing started when
Cable offered Data, Video and Phone and Telco offered Data, Phone and Wireless, so that means Telco with Video and Cable With wireless makes all sense all around , but like I said, Video for telco is more favored , then wireless with cable. I don't one shuld be favored and both of them should get equal notice. |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
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well thats too bad that if you think its drastic of what I post on here
I'm guessing I'm not the only one here that thinks that. How many times do you need to post on the same topic?
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maybe if it actually does happen, guess you won't have anything else to say.
It's not going to happen. They tried once, poor implementation, massive failure and it was just a branding thing, not a real TW wireless service.
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You don't see me crticizing no ones , including your posts on here, but yet I am always the odd one out, I don't think its fair.
Life's not fair.
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I don't criticize no one for their posts on here and I expect the same, and yet I am the only one getting this, but all others seem to be "accepted".
Does that not tell you something?
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why is it such a big deal of between Telco offering Video , which was no problem at all, but when it comes to Cable offering Wireless phone its a big deal, what is the big difference between the two , they should be evenly matched, but it seems like Telco offering video is favored more than Cable offering Wireless, the whole thing started when
Cable offered Data, Video and Phone and Telco offered Data, Phone and Wireless, so that means Telco with Video and Cable With wireless makes all sense all around , but like I said, Video for telco is more favored , then wireless with cable. I don't one shuld be favored and both of them should get equal notice.
The infrastructure that Verizon and AT&T put into place for Fios and U-Verse respectively has the ability to cater to their core business, voice and data, as a side benefit, that infrastructure can also carry video signals. Once the fiber is laid and the systems are set up the hard part is done and voice, data and video can all go through the same cable. Just like what cable companies are did with voice. While some upgrades were needed, the network didn't need a massive overall to be able to start offering phone service in addition to their bread and butter services, video and broadband.
Now for a cable company to add wireless service, they need to put up towers, decide which standard they want to go with GSM or CDMA, get roaming partners, come to agreements with handset manufactures. Building a cell phone company from the ground up is much more expensive then adding video service to an existing infrastructure. And doing this nationwide? And then they have to offer something the competition doesn't. Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile dominate, what could Time Warner do to lure customers way from the big 4 wireless service providers? In addition to voice, they'd have to venture into wireless data and invest into 3G and 4G technologies and have proper devices for the end user. Most people aren't going to give up their iPhone's, Blackberry's and Pre's just so they can have ONEBILL. Even if you take smartphones out of the picture, many people just get the same cell phone provider as the rest of their family or friends have for free M2M.
As a company, like any company, Time Warner Cable's main objective is to maximize profit and make as much money as possible. I'm willing whatever cost was associated with coming out with digital phone was made up pretty quickly. There's a huge ROI. It would take years, and a lot of luck for Time Warner to make a dime on this. And they're not going to do this just so some guy named Billy in NYC can have his life long dream of having everything on ONEBILL achieved.
I really don't know why I wasted my time typing all this up. I really don't you expect to understand much, if any of what I posted, because you have such a deep obsession and fetish with the whole notion of ONEBILL when I've already mentioned to you more than once, you can use auto pay and pay with a credit card and have everything one ONEBILL or use debit and have it taking out of your checking account directly.
In summary, for Time Warner or any cable company to invest into cellular would be a huge waste and an idiotic move that we'd all be paying for and would be a complete and massive failure.
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | enough said, thanks |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16 | Just as I thought... |
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| well thanks for your information, and I post the same topics if you must know, because they are what is important to me when trying to find out information , but might not be as important to others. I seek updates that are available , and its not all the time, its every couple of months , so I am not obsessed. Also when news breaks , like with Comcast with Mobile phones, of course I am going to reiterate with TWC mobile phones, not that I want to , but its there for the taking, if no news, or no info is requested , then no post is needed, but I only do it once every few months, and when I seek information, so just so everyone knows that. Same goes for the verizon forum when I post on there. I am not trying to send a bad message to people on here, I just want to be like all others on here that post topics and I don't see why I have to be any different. |
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billy2
join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| here is what I need to know about what I post and why I post what I post
TWC Mobile phones (ONE Bill)
NY 1 Full HD Channel
Samsung 3090 HD DVR Boxes in Staten Island - Told by end of July
Fixing the quality on MSG 2 and MSG + 2 for NBA and NHL 2009 -2010 seasons, maybe MSG will have an MSG 2 HD and MSG + 2 HD feed for the season , MASN has a MASN 2 HD feed in Washington, DC area .
Staten Island Local Programming and all 4 NY RSN HD are covered. |
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