Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Just so everyone knows. 5g works off of the fiber backbone. It's not some kind of magical technology that doesnt need to go through our central offices. Even if 5g is deployed. It still requires c splicers linemen antenna techs and maintenance! I don't get how they think 5g doesnt work off our infrastructure

Look, the future is in wireless(5g) and not installing and maintaining infrastructure to the home as cities and suburbs expand. Every position is being looked at to determine if it can be outsourced to another company that claims they can do it cheaper (i.e. offshore). If your job can be performed from anywhere then it is a candidate to be outsourced. If you are lucky, it may take a couple of years to get around to you but it will get you eventually. The end game is Stankey and 250K contractors so there won't be pension and health insurance costs. Most of the really good 3rd-5th levels managers have already left to become leaders in other industries. The remaining managers are just hanging on until retirement is forced upon them. Doing whatever it takes to meet their objectives and get their bonus. And for those few really good leaders that are left, their budgets are being cut so deep that they are forced to outsource jobs and forced to become mediocre like the rest of their peers.

I don't know enough about the media business to comment on whether that was a good direction for AT&T to take. Time will tell on that. I personally don't know anyone (old or young) that watch reruns of Friends or any other series. My 89 year old father-in-law does watch (nap through) the old TNN Westerns every morning. So there is at least 1 person watching those!

AT&T looks to be a house of cards with all these purchases to try to increase revenue to make it look like the business is growing. The debt is certainly growing. And you know what eventually happens to a house of cards.

• and if a frog had wings.....

I think it’s a little of both. The Company chose not to deploy FTTN in many neighborhoods where it would have been extremely popular and profitable. They fired it up in others that have less than 10 customers using our service.
We should have fibered all new subs, and built out FTTP in many others. Also, our cell service s—s a mile out of most towns. Those are more customers they kissed off. Mismanagement at all levels, while our executives were rewarded with hefty bonuses.

The company doesn’t want to maintain neighborhoods of infrastructure.

The plan going forward is to supply as many households as possible with the fastest wireless as possible. Run fiber to one cell site, cover every customers in a 12 miles radius with speeds fast enough to stream and make calls. Less techs needed to maintain infrastructure. The majority of fiber run to our cell sites isn’t even maintained by us, it’s other communications companies. They want to ship customers devices that work off the wireless network.

If we take the HQ city of Dallas for example. More customers have a wireless speed to support OTT services than customers that have fiber. The company gets to charge more for a wireless plan than residential fiber and now they don’t need a tech to verify sync, do an install or maintain the miles of fiber and equipment in the field. They will build out fiber to gain access for 5G and buildout more cell sites. In the end they don’t care about FTTP they care about getting wireless to the prem.

All that WiFi mapping in the house wasn’t to provide better signal from that modem and RG in the living room, it was to provide better WiFi coverage for CRAN. The equipment that will be sent to homes in 5G markets takes the 5G signal and converts it to WiFi for the house.

yeah you would think a telecommunications company would want to own as much fiber as possible. but I don't know everything like stank.

@1kyb+15Hs4VUc When I first got U-verse in 2007, I remember that Stanke said there was no need for FTTP and FTTN was enough.

AT&T has made two huge strategic mistakes:

• Not deploying FTTP more aggressively
• Ending the U-verse TV platform

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