When I was living in Colombia telefonica bought up much of the government run landline/internet business.
I had telephone and DSL through them.768 down, 128 up for like 70 US a month. Then the government mandated that min speed for anyone was 2 meg, so we got a bump. But they throttled youtube and my vpn traffic.
I did not mind to much because my office had a ten megabit fiber connection, so any thing that needed a heavy payload I just did at work. Though it did suck for streaming video.
In 2000 I wired the family home for internet and while doing this I discovered that the phone line was only a single pair so I replaced it with 2 pair and dropped ethernet jacks to the bedrooms, the kitchen, dining room, and the living room.
Fast forward to 2010 my internet and my home phone go to to shit, does not work for 2 weeks. They broke appointment after appointment.
Finally a guy from Telefonica came over but I was not home, so I called the guard at my building and said to let him in, I was on my way.
I get to the house and the guy has cut my standard phone cable and run lamp wire, about as think as a monster cable, to the jack where the dsl router was plugged in, and insult to injury has run the lamp wire around the entire room stapled to the walls. Also had pulled my baseboard off the wall.
He had no equipment such as testers or even a lap top. And still nothing worked. At this point I took his bag of tools and tossed them both into the street. My wife was cracking up because she said I fit about 20 insults in 2 minutes of yelling.
I call again, get someone reasonably intelligent, and they say "oh yeah, lightning hit the switch we will have someone right away". So I reconnect my wiring but leave his in place so they can see what a fuck up it was.
They fix the switch, everything comes up working again. They send a supervisor over to see the damage and he is like "so what". And then he sees my two little netgear routers and says "now we have to charge you for a business connection because you have a router." I am beyond pissed. I explain to him that I have two internal networks, one for the rest of the family that is straight internet, and the other was connected to my vpn.
Two days later vpn is not working. Router seems fine, I can connect to my vpn at work, but not at home. I switched equipment same thing. The dsl modem was also a 4 port switch, and all of a sudden only one port was working. I call em up and they tell that they have disabled the other ports and if I want them to re-enable it I have to pay for a business line.
I call Telmex order their triple bundle they came to the house installed in three hours, and left me with a ten meg connection.
2 days later the Telefonica manager shows up at my house asking why I was disconnecting service and I told him. I also said that I was not going to pay the contract fees nor the phone bill, because it had not worked for two weeks and showed him the damage. He got all snippy and said I would be turned over to a collection agency and if I wanted any restitution I would have to see them in court, and he said "los abogados aca cobran mucho). He did not realize that although I was born and raised in the states, and my spanish had a gringo accent, that I was actually Colombian, so he tried to get over on me. I said to him that I did not have a problem paying an attorney and I yelled out "Papa ven un momentico, hay alguien en la puerta quien quiere hablar con mi abogado." Yo dad, there is someone at the door who wants to speak to my attorney. Unfortunately for this guy my lawyer is also my father.
I am the calmest guy in the world but they pissed me off.
But this is typical of latin america, and if you grew up in the states it is hard to get used to the lack of rhyme and reason there.
1. Payola is a term for the US which record companies used to pay stations to play certain artists and songs. Probably not a common word in an ESL classroom since it is a word from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. You assumed it was a spanish word more than likely because of the a on the end.
I never said it is was a Portuguese. If i would have said it in spanish it would have been mordida. A bite, akin to an italian saying he needs to dip his beak
2. Brazil is not all of latin america. I have worked in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile, and they were pretty much the same.
2. I said Latin America as a whole. Sorry Brazil lets it's workers get treated that way, but it happens in all of latin america. But I doubt you have ever had to work one of those factor jobs have you?
3. I was allowed to work three days a week from home, because(again maybe you do not understand english as well as you think you do) as my post said, I was efficient. My current job in the US as a tech manager is that I have to average 16 customer solutions a day. I average 30.
The post was not racist.
Actually as someone of South American heritage, it is more likely to be payola than anything.
I have lived on and off doing projects in Colombia since 1989 as well as working for a company that a branch in Brazil.
Brazil is very protective of labor community, but more than likely it is the Brazilian middle managers who get bonuses based on output, who are cracking the whip.
In Colombia the work week is 48 hours, and usually six days a week. But here is a typical day in the life of a latin american worker. 2 hour lunches, 3 half hour breaks, and maybe 2 hours just loafing while catching up on gossip.
My last job in Colombia I worked 2 days a week in the office, and the rest from home. The reason being according to my Colombian boss was that since I was born and raised in the US, that my work was done in 2 days, and he did not want the rest of the company to feel hostile toward me because while his employees were good, the work ethic from US would make them feel inferior.
I was called in in 2001 to a meeting with MS, they were going to open a factory in my town. They were going to use it to print and package DVDs, documentation, and warehouse stuff. They were going to pay the employees 3 times the min wage.
2 weeks after the meeting I had drink with the MS guys, they told me it was a no go. What happened was the governor wanted payola, and the local well to dos who made their money off of giant coffee farms and slave labor, did not want anyone in town paying a good wage, because it as cause social unrest and they did not want to raise their underpaid workers salaries. 1,000 high paying jobs were lost. Not to mention the help to the community ms would have brought and it would have attracted other big business.
As a tri-citizen(USA, Panama, and Colombian) I always try to champion my people, but Latin America has a lot of work to do.
Actually, there was no need back then for a store because you could only buy an OS, a keyboard, Office, or a joytstick. Apple sold their own hardware. If you want to compare Apples to Apples.
Now Microsoft sells hardware. The Xbox, Tablets, Kinect, phones, so they have a more viable hardware market than they used to. Hardware that would benefit with a rep there.
Nokia has owned Navteq for the last 6 years. Your post makes it sound like a recent purchase.
Nokia has always been number one it is mapping product. It can found a house I own in South America, in a small town in Colombia, whereas google maps can get near it, and apple maps just acts confused.
I used to sell practice management.billing software in the 1990s, and what I found out, that a doctor who was clearing 30k a month in his practice, after all expenses paid, including his salary, was loath to spend 25k to modernize his office, and increase his billing revenue by 10%. Doctors are cheap.
An ophthalmologist who cannot afford 10k is probably not one I would go to.
One thing Windows did for the medical billing world was force traditional Unix vendors of billing software was to lower their price and up their game.
Let me address a few comments in your post.
1. Pixar was founded Lucas Group, and then later spun off as sep corp with an investment from Steve Jobs.
2. Canon invented that drive, and the Next was hardly consumer hardware and was not marketed with consumers in mind.
3. Next would have tanked without Ross Perots money. So maybe we owe Ross Perot for OSX.
Jobs was a great driving force behind Apple an Next, but he wrote no code, nor did he invent Unix, he was just an excellent overseer. He is was a great salesman and marker. But an asshole.
I have a self winding stainless steel rolex. It was given to me for my high school graduation in 1988. My mother bought it at an estate sale for 250 dollars, and it was manufactured in 1965.
The watch in the 25 years I have owned it has been in the shop twice, and it is never a minute or two off from my cell phone, so my 48 year piece of steam punk tech, is still working with min upkeep...
I am a tech support manager at one of the largest cell carriers in the US, and while HTC might have nice hardware, they are very shoddily made and usually about 3 months into it 40-60% of the phones crap out multiple times and we have to end up giving out Samsung as replacements.
Which is why you see the HTC 1X selling new for 99 cents, because it is a horrible piece of crap.
There has been a mod for that for months to turn off the shutter click. Google is still your friend.
Also, an App Called Defender will fix your battery woes.
But if you are running wifi, you are in one location? Why would you need cel radios and GPS on? To find your bathroom?
My s2 went to ICS, and Jellybean, pick your products wisely.
I work for the T and the majority of my day is handling manager escalations from irate customers, the majority being Iphone
The S3 can be had for $99 dollars at Radio Shack, and Walmart had it for several weeks at at.92 cents/
Also a refurbed Iphone 5 is $149 and a refurbed S3 on our site is at $29. Huge difference.
So, you can still get an S3 cheaper than an Iphone 5. And the Walmart price is $127 on the phone, and the huge lure is you can finance it and pay Walmart and Apple even more money.
As for the Mobile Share plan, your math is a bit off. Four smart phones with ten gigs of data has a base cost of $240 dollars. With Tax that will run you up to $280.
I personally use T-Mobile because I get free wifi calling in the US and Outside of the US and it does not use my plan minutes, unlimited data that only slows down at 10 gigs, and unlimited international text, for 95 a month, things I could not do with my own employer. That and I like to keep personal items apart from work.
I use a Galaxy S2 skyrocket that has been doing all the things the iphone 5 for the last year, and has a much larger screen, and i have 80 gigs of memory in it, and the only cost I paid was 30 dollars for the sd card.
Really? I am running Ice cream Sandwich on my Motorola Defy, and Jelly Bean on my S2 Skyrocket, both unofficial releases and it literally took me 20 minutes to install each on both.
I work for ATT and we only offer 1 sony phone at a time, especially in the last year. And they are pretty too look at, but just awful phones, that no one really buys, and when they do, they are returned rather quickly, and the ones that keep them are fraught with warranty replacements.
Sony is not making any inroads in the US market.
I work all over Latin America, and it literally costs me the same to go from Bogota to Medellin in Colombia round trip that I can fly from Orlando to NYC. Though my experience is germane to Latin America, I prefer to fly in the US, and it is cheaper.
International flights tend to have a little better service but third world flights are sorely lacking. The US is head and tails above.
I work for ATT and have a Tmobile phone, because of wifi calling and unlimited data, which is still cheaper than my corporate discount, especially when I can use my wifi calling when I am outside of the US.
Tmobile is not going bankrupt, they just bought metro pcs which got them spectrum and a shit ton of customers.
Plus. they have roaming agreements with the T.
But then again, leave the industry to use who know what goes on behind the scenes. But you must be one of our corporate shills...
If they are using the new port then they will be just like the new Iphones, the built in controls in the car will not be able to control the device... So all of those features are moot, because they will not work.
I moved from the US to Colombia, SA, and I brought two motherboards, processors, graphic cards, 8 hard drives, and two heavy duty power supplies, plus all the cabling wrapped in bubble wrap. I left my cases in the us because of the weight and the size.
When I arrived I bought two towers and put them all back together.
Depends on where you go, sometimes it is hard to find good parts, but you can always find a case.
Also, customs agents in other countries tend to "lose" things in transit.
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When I was living in Colombia telefonica bought up much of the government run landline/internet business.
.768 down, 128 up for like 70 US a month. Then the government mandated that min speed for anyone was 2 meg, so we got a bump. But they throttled youtube and my vpn traffic.
I had telephone and DSL through them
I did not mind to much because my office had a ten megabit fiber connection, so any thing that needed a heavy payload I just did at work. Though it did suck for streaming video.
In 2000 I wired the family home for internet and while doing this I discovered that the phone line was only a single pair so I replaced it with 2 pair and dropped ethernet jacks to the bedrooms, the kitchen, dining room, and the living room.
Fast forward to 2010 my internet and my home phone go to to shit, does not work for 2 weeks. They broke appointment after appointment.
Finally a guy from Telefonica came over but I was not home, so I called the guard at my building and said to let him in, I was on my way.
I get to the house and the guy has cut my standard phone cable and run lamp wire, about as think as a monster cable, to the jack where the dsl router was plugged in, and insult to injury has run the lamp wire around the entire room stapled to the walls. Also had pulled my baseboard off the wall.
He had no equipment such as testers or even a lap top. And still nothing worked. At this point I took his bag of tools and tossed them both into the street. My wife was cracking up because she said I fit about 20 insults in 2 minutes of yelling.
I call again, get someone reasonably intelligent, and they say "oh yeah, lightning hit the switch we will have someone right away". So I reconnect my wiring but leave his in place so they can see what a fuck up it was.
They fix the switch, everything comes up working again. They send a supervisor over to see the damage and he is like "so what". And then he sees my two little netgear routers and says "now we have to charge you for a business connection because you have a router." I am beyond pissed. I explain to him that I have two internal networks, one for the rest of the family that is straight internet, and the other was connected to my vpn.
Two days later vpn is not working. Router seems fine, I can connect to my vpn at work, but not at home. I switched equipment same thing. The dsl modem was also a 4 port switch, and all of a sudden only one port was working. I call em up and they tell that they have disabled the other ports and if I want them to re-enable it I have to pay for a business line.
I call Telmex order their triple bundle they came to the house installed in three hours, and left me with a ten meg connection.
2 days later the Telefonica manager shows up at my house asking why I was disconnecting service and I told him. I also said that I was not going to pay the contract fees nor the phone bill, because it had not worked for two weeks and showed him the damage. He got all snippy and said I would be turned over to a collection agency and if I wanted any restitution I would have to see them in court, and he said "los abogados aca cobran mucho). He did not realize that although I was born and raised in the states, and my spanish had a gringo accent, that I was actually Colombian, so he tried to get over on me. I said to him that I did not have a problem paying an attorney and I yelled out "Papa ven un momentico, hay alguien en la puerta quien quiere hablar con mi abogado." Yo dad, there is someone at the door who wants to speak to my attorney. Unfortunately for this guy my lawyer is also my father.
I am the calmest guy in the world but they pissed me off.
But this is typical of latin america, and if you grew up in the states it is hard to get used to the lack of rhyme and reason there.
1. Payola is a term for the US which record companies used to pay stations to play certain artists and songs. Probably not a common word in an ESL classroom since it is a word from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. You assumed it was a spanish word more than likely because of the a on the end. I never said it is was a Portuguese. If i would have said it in spanish it would have been mordida. A bite, akin to an italian saying he needs to dip his beak 2. Brazil is not all of latin america. I have worked in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile, and they were pretty much the same. 2. I said Latin America as a whole. Sorry Brazil lets it's workers get treated that way, but it happens in all of latin america. But I doubt you have ever had to work one of those factor jobs have you? 3. I was allowed to work three days a week from home, because(again maybe you do not understand english as well as you think you do) as my post said, I was efficient. My current job in the US as a tech manager is that I have to average 16 customer solutions a day. I average 30. The post was not racist.
Actually as someone of South American heritage, it is more likely to be payola than anything. I have lived on and off doing projects in Colombia since 1989 as well as working for a company that a branch in Brazil. Brazil is very protective of labor community, but more than likely it is the Brazilian middle managers who get bonuses based on output, who are cracking the whip. In Colombia the work week is 48 hours, and usually six days a week. But here is a typical day in the life of a latin american worker. 2 hour lunches, 3 half hour breaks, and maybe 2 hours just loafing while catching up on gossip. My last job in Colombia I worked 2 days a week in the office, and the rest from home. The reason being according to my Colombian boss was that since I was born and raised in the US, that my work was done in 2 days, and he did not want the rest of the company to feel hostile toward me because while his employees were good, the work ethic from US would make them feel inferior. I was called in in 2001 to a meeting with MS, they were going to open a factory in my town. They were going to use it to print and package DVDs, documentation, and warehouse stuff. They were going to pay the employees 3 times the min wage. 2 weeks after the meeting I had drink with the MS guys, they told me it was a no go. What happened was the governor wanted payola, and the local well to dos who made their money off of giant coffee farms and slave labor, did not want anyone in town paying a good wage, because it as cause social unrest and they did not want to raise their underpaid workers salaries. 1,000 high paying jobs were lost. Not to mention the help to the community ms would have brought and it would have attracted other big business. As a tri-citizen(USA, Panama, and Colombian) I always try to champion my people, but Latin America has a lot of work to do.
they had to hire one after the iphone 4 debacle of your holding it wrong
Maybe she wanted sex? Look up the word pretense or ruse.
Actually, there was no need back then for a store because you could only buy an OS, a keyboard, Office, or a joytstick. Apple sold their own hardware. If you want to compare Apples to Apples. Now Microsoft sells hardware. The Xbox, Tablets, Kinect, phones, so they have a more viable hardware market than they used to. Hardware that would benefit with a rep there.
Nokia has owned Navteq for the last 6 years. Your post makes it sound like a recent purchase. Nokia has always been number one it is mapping product. It can found a house I own in South America, in a small town in Colombia, whereas google maps can get near it, and apple maps just acts confused.
Part of living in a rural area. I live in Ocala, Florida, not exactly a huge city, but we do have LTE and I get blazing fast reliable internet.
I routinely get 12-10 megs down and 2 up. I can stream and torrent reliably.
Apple was late to the game with LTE.
I used to sell practice management.billing software in the 1990s, and what I found out, that a doctor who was clearing 30k a month in his practice, after all expenses paid, including his salary, was loath to spend 25k to modernize his office, and increase his billing revenue by 10%. Doctors are cheap. An ophthalmologist who cannot afford 10k is probably not one I would go to. One thing Windows did for the medical billing world was force traditional Unix vendors of billing software was to lower their price and up their game.
Let me address a few comments in your post. 1. Pixar was founded Lucas Group, and then later spun off as sep corp with an investment from Steve Jobs. 2. Canon invented that drive, and the Next was hardly consumer hardware and was not marketed with consumers in mind. 3. Next would have tanked without Ross Perots money. So maybe we owe Ross Perot for OSX. Jobs was a great driving force behind Apple an Next, but he wrote no code, nor did he invent Unix, he was just an excellent overseer. He is was a great salesman and marker. But an asshole.
I have a self winding stainless steel rolex. It was given to me for my high school graduation in 1988. My mother bought it at an estate sale for 250 dollars, and it was manufactured in 1965. The watch in the 25 years I have owned it has been in the shop twice, and it is never a minute or two off from my cell phone, so my 48 year piece of steam punk tech, is still working with min upkeep...
I am a tech support manager at one of the largest cell carriers in the US, and while HTC might have nice hardware, they are very shoddily made and usually about 3 months into it 40-60% of the phones crap out multiple times and we have to end up giving out Samsung as replacements. Which is why you see the HTC 1X selling new for 99 cents, because it is a horrible piece of crap.
Really, at ATT we have been bricking phones for the last three months if they are reported lost or stolen...
There has been a mod for that for months to turn off the shutter click. Google is still your friend. Also, an App Called Defender will fix your battery woes. But if you are running wifi, you are in one location? Why would you need cel radios and GPS on? To find your bathroom? My s2 went to ICS, and Jellybean, pick your products wisely.
Funny how ATT does blacklist them...
All the what were Bell South States, the geode sits in Jacksonville and most of the hardware was in Atlanta. Texas of course was originally SBC.
I work for the T and the majority of my day is handling manager escalations from irate customers, the majority being Iphone The S3 can be had for $99 dollars at Radio Shack, and Walmart had it for several weeks at at .92 cents/
Also a refurbed Iphone 5 is $149 and a refurbed S3 on our site is at $29. Huge difference.
So, you can still get an S3 cheaper than an Iphone 5. And the Walmart price is $127 on the phone, and the huge lure is you can finance it and pay Walmart and Apple even more money.
As for the Mobile Share plan, your math is a bit off. Four smart phones with ten gigs of data has a base cost of $240 dollars. With Tax that will run you up to $280.
I personally use T-Mobile because I get free wifi calling in the US and Outside of the US and it does not use my plan minutes, unlimited data that only slows down at 10 gigs, and unlimited international text, for 95 a month, things I could not do with my own employer. That and I like to keep personal items apart from work.
I use a Galaxy S2 skyrocket that has been doing all the things the iphone 5 for the last year, and has a much larger screen, and i have 80 gigs of memory in it, and the only cost I paid was 30 dollars for the sd card.
My nose has been detecting bad breath for the last 43 three years. Should I file a patent on nasal abilities?
Really? I am running Ice cream Sandwich on my Motorola Defy, and Jelly Bean on my S2 Skyrocket, both unofficial releases and it literally took me 20 minutes to install each on both.
I work for ATT and we only offer 1 sony phone at a time, especially in the last year. And they are pretty too look at, but just awful phones, that no one really buys, and when they do, they are returned rather quickly, and the ones that keep them are fraught with warranty replacements. Sony is not making any inroads in the US market.
I work all over Latin America, and it literally costs me the same to go from Bogota to Medellin in Colombia round trip that I can fly from Orlando to NYC. Though my experience is germane to Latin America, I prefer to fly in the US, and it is cheaper. International flights tend to have a little better service but third world flights are sorely lacking. The US is head and tails above.
I work for ATT and have a Tmobile phone, because of wifi calling and unlimited data, which is still cheaper than my corporate discount, especially when I can use my wifi calling when I am outside of the US. Tmobile is not going bankrupt, they just bought metro pcs which got them spectrum and a shit ton of customers. Plus. they have roaming agreements with the T. But then again, leave the industry to use who know what goes on behind the scenes. But you must be one of our corporate shills...
If they are using the new port then they will be just like the new Iphones, the built in controls in the car will not be able to control the device... So all of those features are moot, because they will not work.
Exactly,
I moved from the US to Colombia, SA, and I brought two motherboards, processors, graphic cards, 8 hard drives, and two heavy duty power supplies, plus all the cabling wrapped in bubble wrap. I left my cases in the us because of the weight and the size.
When I arrived I bought two towers and put them all back together.
Depends on where you go, sometimes it is hard to find good parts, but you can always find a case.
Also, customs agents in other countries tend to "lose" things in transit.