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Verizon CEO Calls Municipal Wi-Fi 'a Dumb Idea'
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An interview with Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg quotes him as saying that 'Municipal Wi-Fi is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard' and 'Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?' -- apparently Verizon's own 'Can You Hear Me Now' ad campaign has given customers 'unrealistic expectations' that their phone service will work everywhere. What?"
"Can you ping me now? No? Good!"
I knew I was expecting too much from my cell phone company.
And what does this have to do with Wi-Fi?
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
CEO of company that would lose customers is city wifi is deployed makes argument against wi-fi.
More at news 11....
...buggy whip manufacturers call automobiles "a passing fad".
From: Advertising Department
To: Ivan S.
Cc: Slashdot
Re: Your Recent Interview
Dear Sir,
Recently we've been spending a lot of money on a good campaign to convince America we have good coverage. We think we've been doing a good job of it.
Unfortunately, it has come to our attention that you made certain comments about Verizon's coverage, namely, 'Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?'
To keep our image from suffering in the eyes of the public, our response (i.e. damage control) will need to be quick, bulletproof, and all-encompassing. Thus, our final words:
AHH HAH HAH HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAAAAH! LET THE MONEY FLOOD INTO OUR DEPARTMENT, FOOL!!!!
Many Thanks,
the Advertising Dept.
The difference between spam and poop is that you don't have to dig through septic tanks looking for real food. -- Me
Segway CEO calls bicycles "gay as hell."
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Next thing you know, Evian will come out and say that drinking tap water is a bad idea. Microsoft will say that running Linux is a bad idea. Just then, Harrison Ford will pop in to say "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
This is due to the superior construction of European socialist toilet paper. It breaks down easily out of environmental concerns. The ugly Americans with their bourgeoisie toilets and toilet paper! Their capitalist evil wiping schemes never stop!
'640K ought to be enough for anybody' -- Bill Gates
'We think there is a world market for maybe five computers.' --Tom Watson
'Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?' --Samuel Goldwyn
'Municipal Wi-Fi is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard' -- Ivan Seidenberg
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Sprint has customer service? When did this happen?
Europe uses GSM coding. Verizon is CDMA, I believe, which is one step ahead of soup cans with string between them.
Verizon doesn't make any money from that.
That's probably the dumbest thing the CEO of Verizon ever heard.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
"If Municipal WiFi is adopted the Terrorists Win." - Verizon CEO
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Yeah, I know. You think it's bad? Try Verizon. Trust me. Sprint is bad in that typical phone service kind of way, but Verizon takes it to a new level.
Yeah except every day is Gay Day in SF.
And expensive-to-cancel contracts help us do that because, well, frankly, otherwise we'd have to keep improving our service and that's expensive!
At this point, the phone call abruptly ended: he entered a tent.
Oh, come on now - this may be politically incorrect, but no "Funny" mods at ALL?!?!
/survived 5 Gay Days at WDW, and got stuck driving Monorail Pink for two of them.
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I think you misspelled 120.9 square kilometer.