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04.16.05
Can You Hear Me Bitching Now?
11:55 AMToday's Chronicle has an interview with the CEO of Verizon Wireless, who apparently got up on the wrong side of the calling plan. Among other things, he criticizes San Francisco's ambitions to build a municipal wireless-computing* network, essentially because, he claims, that sort of thing can only be trusted to corporations.
What lended his gripe some gravitas was an accidental trick of web-page layout, which made his litany look like poetry. It went like this:
someone will have to design it,
someone will have to upgrade it,
someone will have to maintain it and
someone will have to run it.
And someone will have to run it in a hat. And someone will have to run it with a cat.
The interview made me wish I'd picked a different provider. Before he was done, the Verizon CEO called customer complaints about coverage unreasonable, saying, "Why in the world would you think your phone would work in your house?"
Um, because the commercials from you and every other mobile-phone company talk about how great your coverage is, and show people using the phones in their houses?
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* I refuse to use the term "wi-fi," because the "fi" part doesn't make any sense to me.
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This makes me ecstatic I'm with SBC. If I was with Verizon, and I had heard their CEO say that, I would have bailed post haste.
Seriously, the real reason he's bitching is because they just got done setting up their own special "Wi-Fi" or whatever they're calling it Verizon only network in Chicago, so that you don't have to find hot-spots for your Laptop. Evidently it works on some kind of satellite technology to make your special Verizon card in your laptop either talk to the Sears Tower or to Satellites no matter where you are in the city.
But yeah. "Why would they expect to be able to use their phones in their houses?" Holy shit that guy deserves a size 15 shoe in his ass.
– Bowler · 2 PM
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