Over the years if they bought companies and hold on folks, this is a crazy idea, hold on tight.....drum roll.........just left the companies alone and collected the profits. After that Stankey Town Hall with HBO it was a direct ice berg hit with a weak hull.
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OP is right. AT&T should indeed be the biggest company in the USA if they would let the right people run the companies they bought or even it’s internal organizations. But no they had to incorporate the old school phone company mentality and sc--w every thing up. They just never got the think out the box concept.
T did buy companies
Then 2 years later, sell them off for a loss.
Amazing how easy it is to make decisions and and run the company after seeing what already happened.
Cause everybody needs a toolbag
Acres of unused, high load, secure floor space formerly supporting 4ESS and relay wireline switches, now used for cloud servers.
No? Missed that one?
How about: becoming the industry leader in supporting remote workers. Which we did already with WANs and ATM and then fiber, but instead for individual employees.
Instead let's focus on small potatoes like a SIM card in your pocket AND your car (hint: only need one of those).
A lot of the money going today into cloud computing and remote work (still a major white collar market despite the best efforts of C-suite executives and commercial realty interests) could have been going to us.
Imagine that. John Stankey and his predecessor couldn't, so here we are. So why is he still here, anyway?