Crowns EMT has reached out to multiple vendors to start outsourcing all tech positions. Even at the Hub level!
The fiber has been sold, announcement late October early November. Hold tight fellow leftovers, it’s going to get petty 4th quarter. Do more with less and meet the goals promised to the suiter!
@4end+1uJQuSoY You obviously are talking about the SCN "FOTs" and not the Enterprise FOTs. Apples and oranges when comparing skill set, experience and abilities. One is replaced easily with GCs.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4155523-zayo-tpg-competing-to-purchase-crown-castle-fiber-wireless-assets-valued-at-10b
In my honest opinion, technicians are needed. Do they have to be in house? No. Should they be? Yes. I know for a fact that the south has used vendors/GC’s to install customer circuits. Getting access to hub sites just requires a sponsor. The problem is in a lot of areas, the techs would barely troubleshoot issues, instead, they would engage a GC to fix the problem. Here’s where things get interesting. Our customers, the big 3, give us x amount of dollars to troubleshoot their equipment. If the tech resolves the issue, positive balance. If we outsource to a GC, now we’re looking at a net loss… the issues stem from a systemic failure from the top down. Why weren’t we staffed appropriately to troubleshoot and repair? Why were techs and supervisors given freedom to just say, sc--w it, send it to a GC.
@Small Cell Minded Looks like the down votes are the only SCN " techs" left to over see the all the GCs...
some techs will still be needed to met with customers, pick up equipment, allow access etc. I highly doubt carriers/customers/dc's would allow unchecked vendors just access the hub sites and cages. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
It's easy to GC out the Wireless side. Most of those " Techs" are just remote hands support anyways, no real loss there. Enterprise is different. The Enterprise techs have direct access to the ENTIRE network. They have abilities that the Wireless " techs" DO NOT!! Yes, there are companies that could provide that service to the Enterprise side, but will require a national contract. The only thing being done by GCs is on the Wireless side aka SCN.
Shouldn’t be to hard. Most CMs are already in the office.
It looks like everything will be third party...they are even trying to transition Field CMs to Office CMs and let GC manage themselves. This new model maybe helps the sale or is part of the sale.
If that’s the case it wont happen till q4 next year. It takes forever to get a po cut or contract signed.
Crown has to have it in place prior to acquisition.
If fiber has been sold, why would crown be reaching out to vendors to outsource techs. I would think that’d be handled by the new owner
Just put me out of my misery already, lol. I was immensely unhappy working there anyway.