Ahead at Lightspeed

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:35 am

David Lay wrote:Looks like AT&T is replacing exploding batteries:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120045143379793329.html

Maybe a bit late!

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David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:11 am

Apparently one in Strongsville blew up:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01 ... boxes.html

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:40 am

David Lay wrote:Apparently one in Strongsville blew up:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01 ... boxes.html

David

This was the scary part, "believed to be the problem."

So something blows up in the box and it catches fire, and they "think" it might be the battery!

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David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:22 pm

Consumerist picked it up:

http://tinyurl.com/yoyqq5

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:36 pm

Consumer Reports released their list of top ISPs today:

http://consumerist.com/347835/best-inte ... -providers

Cox ranked 3rd, AT&T 6th.

Sharon O'Donnell · Post by **Sharon O'Donnell** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:44 pm

Fortunately for me, the box is at the other end of the street. As far as I can tell it is largely ornamental as we have yet to see the tiniest hint of actually getting the service. They told us it would be running by last fall. I suspect our box is a fake.

stephen davis · Post by **stephen davis** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:51 pm

Sharon O'Donnell wrote:As far as I can tell it is largely ornamental...

Sharon O'Donnell wrote:I suspect our box is a fake.

Now, THAT'S funny!

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Ryan Salo · Post by **Ryan Salo** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:32 pm

Sharon,

Funny you should say that. I have one directly across the street from me and I don't have service available and they don't know when it will be. I wonder how many people are actually using this service for how many boxes they put out.

Brian Pedaci · Post by **Brian Pedaci** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:08 pm

They just spent weeks installing a new VRAD at the site where I *KNOW* my service goes into (other times when they've been working on it I've had my service go out and had to ask the serviceman to reconnect my lines as I work from home).

Still no call, letter, email or door-to-door salesmen pitching the product. It's weird.

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:13 pm

AT&T is claiming 231,000 U-Verse customers:

http://tinyurl.com/2rvpdh

Bruce Kratofil · Post by **Bruce Kratofil** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:34 pm

An AT&T salesguy came to the door tonight -- I told him I wouldn't do business with a company that thought so little of their customers that they would put those boxes on the tree lawn

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:03 pm

The other night while we were measuring the distance of every home in Rocky River, we ran across this massive, but very nice in antique brick LightSpeed/UVerse box in Rocky River.

It caused me to ponder how is AT&T keeping their promise with our delivering of high end product, with great maintenance and up keep of there installations that some have compared to loud humming mini-cities.

Does anyone at City Hall know where we are at on this?

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Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:14 pm

The other night while we were measuring the distance of every home in Rocky River, we ran across this massive, but very nice in antique brick LightSpeed/UVerse box in Rocky River.

It caused me to ponder how is AT&T keeping their promise with their delivering of the promised high end product, with great maintenance and up keep of there installations that some have compared to "loud humming, smoking, exploding mini-cities."

Does anyone at City Hall know where we are at on this?

Is there still a group that is trying to make city hall revisit this agreement and have AT&T place the boxes underground, or in people's backyards that are heavily compensated for the inconvenience?

Does the city know how many acres the nearly 300* "small humming cities smoking exploding cities" are occupying in this built out city? What is the rent that is being paid for those acres?

My friend might be kidding, but sent this along with a note that said UVerse Phase Two installation in Malaysia. Mentioned the original plan was the size of a small refrigerator(beta), that grew to the size of a "small humming smoking exploding city"(phase 1) then overnight Phase Two!

Are we prepared for this?

* might only be a perception, not an actual number.

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stephen davis · Post by **stephen davis** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:12 am

When will they stop?

Jim,

I hijacked this photo from your other thread. I wanted to continue the recorded history of these eyesores in THIS thread.

I wonder if all of these boxes were really in the original plan that was presented to City Council. Did anyone know what these things would look like? To me, they look like really old Soviet technology (Nikita Khrushchev's first transistor radio?). Are they serving the community in ANY way?

All of the cement pads that support these boxes look big enough to support expansion. Is there anything that keeps AT&T from parking the equivalent of a double-wide full of wires in Lakewood Park?

This would be a good story for someone to write from a two-years-later perspective. It would require some conversation with Council members, the Law Department, and maybe even AT&T, to see where we've been, and where we are going with this ugly stuff that promises high technology.

Steve

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Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:57 pm

stephen davis wrote:When will they stop?

All of the cement pads that support these boxes look big enough to support expansion. Is there anything that keeps AT&T from parking the equivalent of a double-wide full of wires in Lakewood Park?
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what do you think is in here?

Speaking of space, what are PODS paying us for this billboard in our public park?

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