Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934

[LiberalArkie]

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/verizon-issues-furious-response-to-fcc-in-morse-code-dated-1934/

Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn't do.

After all, Verizon issues so many press releases denouncing the FCC for trying to regulate telecommunications that today's vote on net neutrality required a special one to make sure it would be remembered.

So Verizon wrote it in Morse code and set the date as "1934" to make the point that the FCC is taking us backward in time. Verizon sent out the press release in this e-mail:



Snip

[villager]

1. "How *dare* we not get the government we've already paid for!!"

n/t

[arcane1]

2. Awww... Poor (cry)babies!

[lpbk2713]

3. Fifty years before deregulation.

Long before Verizon came to be. Even before GTE, one of their predecessors.

[tridim]

4. ..-. ..- -.-. -.- / -.-- --- ..- / ...- . .-. .. --.. --- -. nt

[FSogol]

6. LOL, great minds think alike.

[tridim]

8. I think we used the same translator. :)

My dad was a HAM radio guy and he spent a good chunk of his life trying to get me to learn Morse Code so I could get my HAM license.

I never saw the point, especially since I was already talking to the rest of the World on early versions of the Internet and BBS's. Sorry Dad.

[FSogol]

9. I knew it as a kid (wanted a radio license), but can't remember a bit of it these days

because I discovered punk rock, beer, and girls.

[LiberalArkie]

27. You do not need to know CW any more , and the tests are multiple choice

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. I don't know Morse Code but I know what you said without even looking, lol. nt

[FSogol]

5. ..-. ..- -.-. -.- / -.-- --- ..- / ...- . .-. .. --.. --- -.

[jmowreader]

29. .. _. _ / .. _ _ .. / _ _ _ _ _ / _._

I don't think they quite got the message.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. This is nothing compared to what is going on with

Camcast/GE/NBC/MSNBC.CNBC,full out blame Obama and those 4 million E-Mailers who exercised their rites of petition. Here we go again. Hey,Media Whores,eat shit and whatever!!

[Aerows]

10. Um, Verizon

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if you wouldn't have taken advantage of title II, then complained when it was formally brought back up due to your complaints that you didn't get all benefit and were required to give some to get some, you wouldn't be in this position you jackwagons.

Mommy can give you a cookie - yes she can. But crying because mommy can't give you a pony with your cookie is the height of idiocy.

Verizon and many others like Comcast have repeatedly pissed off people both high and low. I'm pretty sure there were a few people left that have been burned by both and their high-handed ways willing to let it pass out of pure spite. You can irritate the shit out of people for only so long until you irritate the shit out the wrong person.

I think they have reached their "we irritate you and charge the shit out of you because we can" threshold. AT&T did it, and you know what happened there.

[meow2u3]

11. meow2u3 to Verizon: The internet is a utility--deal with it!

What's the matter? Can't chisel more money then you're entitled to? Tough shit, Verizon! Shuddup and deal with it!!!

[djean111]

26. As a matter of fact, they will be able to chisel more money - this ruling makes

a point of saying that regulating prices is old-fashioned, so they are not going to do it.

[joshcryer]

12. Wait, this is for real? hahaha!

[Aerows]

15. They've lost

their shit.

[DawgHouse]

20. I was writing a reply but your will do, so +1! nt

[Renew Deal]

13. Is Morse Code still used?

By the military or others?

[LiberalArkie]

16. Check out reddit amateur radio.

The kids are going crazy, I have never seen so many of the young getting their ham licenses.

[JHB]

14. That doesn't make me think it's the FCC that's outdated...

I know it's Morse Code, but my first impression is that they couldn't even keep the corruption out of their press release.

[Aerows]

17. They burned themselves on their

own spit. Eager to reap benefits, but balk when it is time to relinquish some.

You can grab for the gold, but when you fall out of the treehouse doing so, you have nobody to blame but yourself, Verizon, and Comcast, for that matter.

[Orrex]

18. When I was shopping for high-speed internet in 2007, Verizon told me FIOS would soon be in my area

When I was shopping for high-speed internet again in 2012, Verizon told me FIOS would soon be in my area.


Tell me again how regulation is going to stifle innovation and development?

[KamaAina]

19. .-. --- ..-. .-..

[seveneyes]

22. ..-. -.-. -.-. / .---- ... - / -.-. .-.. .- ... ... / .... . .-. .

Shipboard radar was tougher than Morse, but much more fun.

[hifiguy]

23. Boo boo kitty.

[daredtowork]

24. Now lets get on re-regulating phones

Why is basic phone service so expensive and complicated. Why do basic users always have to subsidize the company's move into"future" tech for Cadillac users? Why do people on welfare with ZERO income only get discounted landline service instead of fully subsidized phone service when this is a basic necessity? Why is the phone company allowed to add infinite parcel fees and blame the government, arousing public hostility toward "taxes"?

Frack these jackasses - they used their monopoly on landline infrstructure to crush all DSL competition, and now they want out of landlines and DSL all together because the markup is higher on wireless. Perhaps we should hand basic wire telecom over to the post office to run as a fallback national utility. Then let those fat cat parasite corps eat each other over wireless. In other words give poor people the "public option" of a landline and public standard dsl. Rich peole can then buy high speed wifi with bells and whistles.

Public Options are not "big government"- if they use their scale efficiency correctly and embrace their mission for the public good, they bring down prices for everyone by providing a low price reference point and preventing monopoly manipulation. They could also provide thousands of jobs in direct employment in businesses that at least partially support themselves.

[lpbk2713]

25. Good idea handing basic wired service over to the Postal Service.

But the GOP has been trying to break up the USPS for decades. They
would never allow giving them more power or responsibility.

[Lint Head]

28. The internet was invented by the government using

tax payor money. No corporate entity should own it.