Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Building a flying car isn’t that hard. Still waiting on that 25k Everyman EV. Now that’s hard.

@cy So you are proving what @bq is saying. Elon is going to pay billions to AT&T and Verizon so he can build his wireless network to compete with those same companies. Only the “last mile” of wireless networks is actually wireless.

@cy Tatorhead gets distracted by big shiny things. He will lose interest in building a cell phone network when he finds something new to blow up. If he does go through with the build, do you really think it’s going to be price competitive? He said the same thing about the auto industry. He made everything more expensive.

@cy THIS.

Guys stop with terrestrial network and fiber backhaul BS. It’s money and time - most of our network is 3td party gear and we don’t even own all the fiber. Please, if you think this is that complicated for someone who lands rockets upright after launching satellites at will. This is the problem with Verizon, the ego like it’s still 2005, just stop. We have assembled a bunch of vendor tech and built a great network and made alot of money but tides are changing, quickly.

@c9 so they are putting 15k birds in the sky. What do they plan to connect them to on the ground? Or do you think the 15k birds function on their own and don’t need a terrestrial network?

@DP Do your research, FCC approval for 15000 mobile satellites, has applied to FAA for 456 flights from Texas Starbase.Per Roger Entner, the person in August who correctly called Grain Management spectrum sale to Spacex he may start in rural and move to cities.Listen to the podcast This Week With Roger, every Monday

@c3 Those donations need a couple more zeros on the end.

@c1 Musk needs to step up his game if he wants the FCC to look the other way. If he can afford $50 billion in spectrum, then he’ll need to make a much bigger donation than that. Another comma to start with.

@az You forget the 280 million dollars he gave to the orange man with the tiny hands? You do see how much money he is pouring into the midterms?He will continue to get whatever he wants

@bq Exactly this.

@b3 Just because "everyone" will want a Roadster doesn't mean "everyone" can afford to buy a Roadster. The only way they compete in wireless is if their prices are competitive, they might have a chance.

@b3 Not to mention, Taterhead isn’t going to deal with all of the legalities involved in building a terrestrial network. He won’t spend the money to obtain right a ways to run his own fiber. He will make a deal with Verizon or AT&T to carry his traffic on their fiber backbone.

@bh TMO is in trouble. They alienated a vast majority of their customer base after their initial 3 and 5 year price commitment ended. Many of those customers are leaving. Their share price has dropped 35% in the past 12 months. The big question for TMO is how will they keep paying other companies to carry their traffic since they didn’t build their own fiber backbone? Their best network claim will be short lived.

@b3 Tatorhead builds toys for billionaires. The FCC told him to pound sand when he was leading DOGE and tried to convince the FAA to use his internet services. Why do you think that was?

The post on TMO is spot on. lowel and fran laughed on AHC Qtry call about the Pink shirts. Then they laughed getting stock options blowing up Vz debt.

Whether you like or hate Elon, he has broken barriers that have existed for decades. Thinking he can’t figure out how to run a phone business is massively shortsighted. It will be better than what exists today, cheaper, and he will be the disruptor that causes massive market share loss to Apple and Samsung. ….:or you can believe the VZ execs that scoff at him, because they have been correct about so many things. They said TMO would fail when they started gaining share. They didn’t. The list of failures by VZ is extensive.

@az doesn’t matter. What matters is that he still built it and it will be all over the news and now everyone want a roadster. Keep coping. Space x will kick Verizon’s a-s

@OP spectrum was never the moat. It’s all of the regulations that go along with it. Do you really think the flying car will ever pass federal safety standards? It’s a toy. Just like his other adventures. If the FCC changes the regulations for one company then they change them for all companies to level the playing field.