With all of the consolidation efforts underway, and the depressed market value, is AT&T likely looking to sell off the wireline operation?
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At least 40% of profits are Businesses IP services on wire lines. We’re not selling wire lines and walking away from profits like that!
T-Mobile had wireline?!?
So it’s not that they don’t want to sell the wireline division, it’s just that the product and the employees are worth zero to any potential buyers
They keep it because they can’t trick anyone into taking it.
Did Bellsouth not move all cell towers to fiber years ago?
I first heard they were going to sell wireline back in 2001 in the Texas area. They did sell the northeast coverage and Frontier is loosing their hat on the deal. Worry when you get the email.
They have tried the spinoff of wireline sevral times during the last years, but there is no-one to buy. Just 3 months ago T-mobile did sell off their wireline business for 1$ (incl 1300 employees and 56 datacenters). If Stankey could get anything for Wireless , he would sell it off today
Even cell phones have wireline in the network, cell towers are fed by copper or fiber.
Serious? I thought they were interconnected with fairy dust.
They are trying to get someone to buy the whole thing. There has been no actual effort to get the stock price up; they want it as low as possible to get someone to buy us out, get the C-level golden parachutes, and sc--w the rest of us.
There is no godly reason why the company expects to save money buying new buildings and office space to support a mass RTO effort when over the last decade, they had sold off more than 70% of physical real estate.
Even cell phones have wireline in the network, cell towers are fed by copper or fiber.
Sush. Let them have the fantasy that mobility alone keeps the company afloat.
This place is a total joke premtechs promoted to craft management with 5 years service . My first line has no clue to my job . It’s sad real sad .
As a core tech with a degree, and knows better than to accept a "management" position, the "fast track" prem tech to 1st Line is something I've seen many times, but I never see them for very long. They seem to "disappear" before I get to know them, and no, they didn't make it to 2nd line..
Even cell phones have wireline in the network, cell towers are fed by copper or fiber.
Who has a landline?
If you have any kind on internet access from AT&T that is not on your cell phone, then you are using AT&T Landline. Might be copper fed, might be fiber fed.
The amount of ignorance displayed here gives me hope that AT&T can trim many, many employees and therefore get T Stock back above $25.
CST tech in Houston here . They are pulling copper out of the co’s with working pots and leaving them ots. Nobody cares in management. Failures created over 4 weeks old . Total bs !long subscribers with no 911 service. Someone is going to die and catch wind of this and the lawsuits will hurt . This place is a total joke premtechs promoted to craft management with 5 years service . My first line has no clue to my job . It’s sad real sad .
The topic has been beat over and over.
The company's focus is fiber and wireless anything else is subject to sale 💰
Who has a landline?
Troll, not happening but what is happening is the elimination of DEI for hiring and layoffs per Washington Post article about Attorney Generals.
The aren’t going to sell but will contract and offshore a lot more positions in the next couple of years along with continuing AI.
With all of the consolidation efforts underway, and the depressed market value, is AT&T likely looking to sell off the wireline operation?
No.
Spin off would be more like it. Restructure the company. Keel the fiber and cell separate. Nobody in their right mind would buy the copper network and at&t is working exceptionally hard to decommission what the government will allow.