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clrmoney
clrmoney
5/26/2017 1:53:25 PM
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AT&T Plans for Disease Control
I'm not sure about this from AT&T this money should be going to something else more meaningful and valubale than just this.

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elizabethv
elizabethv
5/26/2017 3:28:04 PM
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Great
This is great. This will allow AT&T a stable customer and source of revenue and the opportunity to continue working on newer technology that could potentially be rolled out to other customers. Not only that it potentially make our ability to head off a potentially massive epidemic before it becomes to widespread. Technology needs to be used for the communication of doctors and health professionals far more than it is now. We have the ability to send information to one another in a matter of seconds, and still if I want one of my doctors to have the surgical notes of a previous one, the process is cumbersome and takes far too long. This type of information could save lives. 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
5/26/2017 3:38:16 PM
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Re: AT&T Plans for Disease Control
@clmoney - I think using their name and knowledge to make communications between Centers for Disease Control that much better, is an extremely meaningful and valuable venture. It could potentially save lives, what's more meaningful than that? 

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srufolo1
srufolo1
5/26/2017 9:09:56 PM
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AT&T Modernizes CDC
It takes a lot of work to win a government contract, and for the CDC to choose AT&T for its modernization project, shows confidence in this carrier. This ensures a great source of revenue for AT&T for quite a few years.

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
5/27/2017 6:00:26 PM
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Re: AT&T Modernizes CDC
..and beyond what you noted, it is gratifying to see this especially as we await the new budget from Washington--and what has been proposed is needless to say, "..challenging"....

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
5/27/2017 6:02:36 PM
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Re: AT&T Plans for Disease Control
The need to have the best-in-breed communication process is critical.    Look at what happened in London today as British Airways cancelled all flights--it is absolutely vital...

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afwriter
afwriter
5/27/2017 11:37:41 PM
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Re: AT&T Plans for Disease Control
I think I get what @clmoney is saying, but I have to agree. What AT&T is doing is actually going to improve the CDC and save lives, not just offer faster speeds.

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elizabethv
elizabethv
5/28/2017 12:21:07 PM
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Re: AT&T Plans for Disease Control
@mpouraryan - I think communication is especially vital as we face terrorist threats continuing to be a part of our lives. I heard with the bomb at the Ariana Grande concert there were a lot of teens who had been dropped off at the concert, with the plans they had with their parents being to get picked up from the location the bomb had gone off at. That left a large number of minors unable to get to their parents, and I would imagine the burden on cell phone signlas in the area was quite overwhelmed. Some kind of communication systems that would have allowed people picking up their kids to then find them at an alternatrive central location would have been useful in this situation. And it's something that the CDC could very likely benefit from having. 

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freehe
freehe
5/28/2017 5:07:24 PM
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Re: AT&T Modernizes CDC
@srufolo1, we would like to believe that but as a former government employee that is usually not the case. Contracts are awarded based on who you know and sometimes on how much is given in kickbacks or bribes. In other instances it is based on lowest price not experience or reputation. Hopefully the CDC did award the contract to the best company.

 

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freehe
freehe
5/28/2017 5:08:45 PM
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AT&T Modernize CDC
The article did not mention how the modernization will benefit the CDC, its customers or Americans. I would be interested to know if this is just purely a benefit for CDC internally or will it provide an impact to Americans and external customers.

 

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