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Package Deal:AT & T - by The Lincoln Project (Original Post) DinahMoeHum Oct 2021 OP
Precisely. Still w ATT? Why? Crystal clear service outweighs giving money to fascist supporters? Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2021 #1
;-{)🖖 Goonch Oct 2021 #2
Switching to Verizon magicguido Oct 2021 #3
Wonder which fascist media or fascist dark money pac they are all supporting? Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2021 #6
They already got my message. Good-bye AT&T and your Yahoo bullshit propaganda E-mail too! ffr Oct 2021 #4
Great video LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #5
What timing! I was just this minute researching about changing carriers. I have AT&T now. SharonAnn Oct 2021 #7
has to do with frequency ! monkeyman1 Oct 2021 #10
Crown Castle owns and leases out 90% of all Cell Towers in US...All carriers can use them. Tommymac Oct 2021 #13
T-Mobile has been improving. A lot. mwooldri Oct 2021 #16
Damn it Traildogbob Oct 2021 #8
Excellent Sucha NastyWoman Oct 2021 #9
There it is! Right There! Share that! eom LittleGirl Oct 2021 #11
AT&T took a sharp rightward tilt when they divested themselves of NCR & Lucent in the 1980's. lark Oct 2021 #12
Actually, the trivestiture was in the mid-late 90's. SharonAnn Oct 2021 #19
It started before then, but it was done then. lark Oct 2021 #22
The funny thing is ATT was hated by right wingers for owning CNN. Jon King Oct 2021 #14
Switch to Verizon completed yesterday Mme. Defarge Oct 2021 #15
Looking at dropping AT&T for my mobile service RainCaster Oct 2021 #17
What timing! I was just this minute researching about changing carriers. I have AT&T now. SharonAnn Oct 2021 #18
Just switched to TMobile hot2na Oct 2021 #20
AT&T's been outed as thoroughly fascist RVN VET71 Oct 2021 #21

SharonAnn

(13,772 posts)
7. What timing! I was just this minute researching about changing carriers. I have AT&T now.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:09 PM
Oct 2021

The ATT signal here is bad and neighbors say Verizon is better here. Has to do with cell tower signal and location.

 

monkeyman1

(5,109 posts)
10. has to do with frequency !
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:23 PM
Oct 2021

Verizon has the best frequency. at&t has the lower one,s & lower location's on the tower's . Verizon pay's for the best location's & better equipment on tower,s . that why your your signal strength is shit'y !

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
13. Crown Castle owns and leases out 90% of all Cell Towers in US...All carriers can use them.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:35 PM
Oct 2021

It's not the location per se - it's whether your provider has paid to use that tower, and what quality of equipment they use.

Don't let them tell you different. 2 Carriers can use the same tower (unless lease is exclusive - not sure how many do that) - but one will send out a better signal if their equipment is superior. But both transmitters are on the exact same tower.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
16. T-Mobile has been improving. A lot.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:49 PM
Oct 2021

Last year I went to Galax VA - and I had "Roaming" on US Cellular - no T-Mo service. This week - full bars T-Mo 4G and some 5G too. This area was good under Sprint and seems like they switched the Sprint towers over to T-Mo. If Sprint service is reported to be good then you'll be good under T-Mobile. Also T-Mo really didn't get into the content generation game by buying up content creators like AT&T and Verizon did.

Traildogbob

(8,726 posts)
8. Damn it
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:10 PM
Oct 2021

Have had direct tv for 20 years, took over by AT&T, my credit card was taken over by AT&T, been a Cowboy fan for 45 years (save the sarcasm please, I have a sense of loyalty) and this year looks good, the stadium is AT&T, traded in my Toyota truck for a new model that should last until I die, they give money to GQP, I have to shop Walmart in rural WNC, nothing else here. Email is ancient @yahoo. Guess, to be a loyal lib I should rid my life of everything. Who doesn’t give to criminal politicians? Just damn it. Need to just head to the woods a live real life Naked and Afraid. Just being snarky. But guess I need to do the tons of paperwork and whatever to drop em all. Supporting OAN is a final straw. And, Pigeons are government issued drones? Really?? We are domed anyway. What a mess.

lark

(23,097 posts)
12. AT&T took a sharp rightward tilt when they divested themselves of NCR & Lucent in the 1980's.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:33 PM
Oct 2021

A lot of insiders, inlcluding the #2 guy, left the company very abruptly right around this time. Not long after, AT&T & Citibank made a sweetheart deal to sell Universal Card if Citi would convert all their phone systems to AT&T. This was illegal, so they covered it up, and AT&T became a right wing co. right afterwards. I stopped using AT&T entirely when I left just before the Citiborg buyout and unless they change dramatically, I will never use them again.

Jon King

(1,910 posts)
14. The funny thing is ATT was hated by right wingers for owning CNN.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:39 PM
Oct 2021

This is going to confuse the MAGAs, guess they now will love ATT.

Mme. Defarge

(8,028 posts)
15. Switch to Verizon completed yesterday
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:47 PM
Oct 2021

and got 15 gigabytes of data, versus the 4 that I had with my AT&T plan, and with the prepaid and loyalty discounts my phone service bill will be 1/2 of what I was paying to Amerikan Trump & Treason.

RainCaster

(10,869 posts)
17. Looking at dropping AT&T for my mobile service
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:05 PM
Oct 2021

Been with them since the mid 90s. Will get an eval phone from T-Mo this week to see how I like their service for my business. If all goes well, I can cut ties with ATT, even though I get a great rate from them (corporate discount from my days as an MSFT employee).

SharonAnn

(13,772 posts)
18. What timing! I was just this minute researching about changing carriers. I have AT&T now.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:17 PM
Oct 2021

The ATT signal here is bad and neighbors say Verizon is better here. Has to do with cell tower signal and location.

hot2na

(357 posts)
20. Just switched to TMobile
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:06 PM
Oct 2021

I had been with AT&T since 2009. I just switched due the OAN story. The thought of my money going to finance right wing fascist propaganda made the difference.

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
21. AT&T's been outed as thoroughly fascist
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:56 PM
Oct 2021

No ambiguity about “sponsoring”. They are practical owners of the network. OAN has admitted. stated publicly, that without AT&T backing, they’d fold like cheap tent in the wind.

I’ve been trying to arrange for the switch to Verizon who, at least, have not yet been outed as bankrolling Nazis and Neo-nazis, white supremacists and Pluto-fascists -- as has AT&T.

(Neither AT&T’s nor Verizon’s websites have proven to be easy to navigate for information. For AT&T I really don’t care, but I don’t want to cancel them until I get Verizon set up -- I think that’s the procedure: don’t quit what you have until you actually are signed with the one you want.)

I hope no one here is heavily invested in AT&T because its stock is dropping and, I think, is going to plummet before this is over. I wouldn’t think of advising anyone on stocks, but hell yeah, I’d advise you to quit an openly fascist, propagandizing corporation that supports and enables the Big Lie.

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