I am not saying this to speak poorly of the wireline business. I come from the wireless side, and the culture at Verizon Wireless was a good one. After the "merge" everything got worse. The culture changed. The things Dan mentioned about doing the right thing for the customer resonates with me because it used to be that way. "Process" took a back seat to customers. We did what was right. After the "merge" we became so caught up in red tape. I miss Verizon Wireless.
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@f1
401K worth over $2 million, I laugh quite a bit these days
@ey I think your getting laughed at,
@eg
stock DOWN almost 3% just TODAY
The Street laughs and the fake cowboy and his coffee cup
🚀 T-Mobile is shaking things up: they’re offering a $20/month “internet resilience” add-on alongside their top-tier $55 home internet plan. It’s clever marketing — especially with the family-friendly T-Mobile Tuesdays freebies — and it signals a real shift as customers cut the cord on Fios and move toward fixed wireless.
💡 My take: Dan’s strategy looks like a push toward lower internet pricing, possibly paired with employee layoffs to balance costs. That sets the stage for a fierce battle. Verizon won’t sit back — expect them to fight hard with competitive offers and price adjustments.
🩸 The result? A brutal price war in the internet market. And if Verizon plays it right, their stock could surge as they capture momentum from this competitive shake-up.
@dx
The Real marketing is completely outsourced.
@ax @a3 ever wonder how those "signals" get from tower to tower? It's not wireless, it's wireline. Wireline has been subsidizing wireless for a long time, wait until the real costs of backhaul have to be shown in the wireless financials.
True, but are you forgetting that wireless had the customers to use that network. Without the wireless customers, there is no need to signals to go tower to tower.
Best to say that neither part of the company is to blame, but the leadership of the entire organization is what is sinking the ship.
The honeymoon period for wireless is over, get used to it
@b1-- do you honestly think marketing has been the problem????
Customers would almost always chose Verizon based on the network because it was better. They would pay more for it even if TMO was cheaper.
Now, TMO has the better network, and pricing is better. Result....butt kicking for last few years. On top of that, they require 2 year contracts for consumers not 3.
The spectrum that TMO acquired from Sprint is the primary reason why they are winning. The Hans disaster played a big part too.
Take 20 years off the mci merger and Verizon stock price would have been $100 by now. I know it hurts mci folks and you are bringing money to the table but at a huge cost and damaging the v team fabric.
@"Sprint spectrum that T-Mobile acquired has been the primary reason why they have been able to pass Verizon in network and dominate the industry for the last few years."
Wrong, Verizon's Marketing is a absolutely horrendous!
Lindsay Lohan was relevant 20+ years ago. Verizon runs Spanish commercials on radio stations with lidteners with English speaking demographics.
@a3 ever wonder how those "signals" get from tower to tower? It's not wireless, it's wireline. Wireline has been subsidizing wireless for a long time, wait until the real costs of backhaul have to be shown in the wireless financials.
F wireless, make a sale for a change
Weigh the way. All kaput unless you speak Hindi or Tagalog. World is a changin' Well if you are in Telekom. Maybe Spanish. That's about it
@aj .....Sprint PCS was a financial mess, but also extremely valuable. The spectrum that T-Mobile acquired has been the primary reason why they have been able to pass Verizon in network and dominate the industry for the last few years.
@a4 wireless didn't have anything to do with mm wave. 5g is great if you understood what it was. Wireless didn't use contractors. Verizon always made the calls, all bad. Denny received his orders daily by FedEx. Like clock work. Verizon driven the costs so high people couldn't wait to leave. Verizon needed to and needs to pay that Vodafone tab. How about all the other poor decisions Verizon made. If Verizon wireless got there way, it would have bought sprint pcs but last minute Verizon said no, that would put us out of business with our 55%. How's that MCI.
Amen. I was wireless too and you hit the nail on the head. I got whacked on the 20th and it probably didn’t help that I commented on a Pulse survey that it felt like watching a slow motion su----e via Verizon-ification.
@"the way it was"
I thought it was "That’s Life"...as in Verizon layoffs!
Wireless is a welfare recipient.
Wireline, paying out those entitlements, were the government, in this scenario.
Wireline customers and wireline employee stockholders were the ones out money to support those who could not support themselves.
The dopiest so-called “leader” came from wireless. Destroyed the place.
Wireline is definitely cr-p, wanted to throw fits for things that did not make sense and were certainly not OMNI and heads rolled because of it.
MCI (Worldcom) was a rotten company before Verizon acquired it.
However, let's face it, Verizon acquired MCI TWENTY (20) years ago almost to the day (Jan '06). To STILL blame MCI's culture for destroying Verizon is sheer farce at this point!! 👉
VzB is toxic think MCI. Have to see if VzB is drain or not … do the dog find the gold. Clean up MCI/VzB leadership down to AD level, you will be back to recovery. It’s not all gloom and doom.
I think leadership with no plan is the problem. They keep going back and forth between merging all Verizon together and then splitting it up. Doing this repeatedly isn’t a strategy and never fixes much…
I'm from the wireline side and can say the same. It's not a wireless/wireline influence. It's leadership
That is because wireless thought is was driving the car, (5g blunder turned them into passengers) once it was fully wireless resisted all the changes, even though most of their knowledge of the network was “get a contractor”. 5g failed and so did wireless that is why Verizon had to redirect back to good & ultimately made the mistake on frontier. Arrogance combined with lack of leadership is the problem. I have worse opinions about vzb.
Totally agree. MCI VzB ki-led VzW. Now we're so stuck together it took what Dan did to try and get us back on track. Issue is so many good people let go, and so many process people still here...gonna be interesting to see if we can get it back.
That title was supposed to read as "the way it was"