So Verizon laid off 13k and frontier workforce is 13k… strategic… I would say yes
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Whole orgs are going to be combined within VZ
No more hybrid
@ab have you experienced outsourced customer service? Jeez it's awful
The more we keep raising prices on wireless plans the more customers we will lose to T Mobile, AT&T
Q4. When FWA shows 250,000 net adds the signal will be showing whats behind the 5G FWA curtin. The FWA hype on MDUs already exposed as a failure
@a8 does that bring any customers or just the network
Call center representatives need to be cut. The job is dead, like the newspaper boy, milkman. They have allowed AI to take calls as well as outsourced reps.
2/3rds of Frontier is union that cannot be touched. Moreover, Frontier has $12B of debt that flows on to our balance sheet - yay!. Add in an oncoming price war that shows no signs of abating and ongoing customer (net add) loss, you have a recipe for cost take outs - be it product rationalization, RIFs , spinning out entire orgs into a separate entity so as to unlock value for VZ parts that are profitable or selling off orgs to 3rd party entities.
For the street, net adds is everything. No one gives two hoots about the “best” network no matter how much Management crows from their towers in BR
@OP the pivotal question is whether the next set of layoffs, another massive in terms of an headcount (aggregating 15k), will be from the merged Frontier incumbents or from the Verizon's staffers???
How many from within the US?
How many from India?
How many being formerly Frontier?
How many being from Verizon (before 1/20/2026 merger) before Frontier's merger?
@a1 didn’t say they wasn’t coming just thinks it’s strategic but I hope the union gets laid off from Verizon
Nope. More layoffs coming.