How many I/R techs do they want gone? How many cable techs? How many co installers? How many Network Techs? What are the numbers? How many supervisors do they want gone?
No one is talking about what the numbers are? Why is that? No one locally knows? Only Corporate? The company should be up front and honest and tell us how many they want gone from every state?
This is almost like a hostile take over. Lay off and package as many as you can and then start over..
All contractors by 2022! Look for new jobs...
This is the problem they face, they can't abandon it, they have to provide service, they bought a RBOC, just like when Centurylink bought Qwest, it came with certain Federal and State responsibilities. To get approval of sale I am sure they had to tell these entities that the service would be there and maintained. This is why Puckett said it was a mistake. The inverted Hostile takeover if you want to call it that by L3 is going to have the same issues and learning curve. You can't muscle States and Federal people. They can however let it deteriorate and become unusable, which appears to be the case and then sell that portion off if they can. Verizon did that with Frontier. Will be harder now that the Frontier situation imploded and they had to file Bankruptcy over it. Who will want to buy something that was left to fall apart to get out of.
This is going to be a problem going forward, when the FCC starts fining for lack of essential services or outages on the Network side there will be a lot of pressure put on to correct issues and then have corrective action, which means more routines and tests and data to prove they are performing the maintenance as a settlement. Vicious spiral, really. Nobody wants to maintain anything. That's just not a Telecom situation, it's highways, Electrical grid infrastructure, just about everything that's backbone essential nationally.
Truth is they want all outside techs gone. Contractors Pay per job. They want nothing to do with dial tone. Abandone. Disqualify. Whatever u have to do to get rid of it and customers.