The person knew what they were talking about in a general sense. Post appeared on both boards likely for the following reason.
AT&T has already publicly (not news headlines, but publicly) announced they will be shedding all managed 3rd party products from Cisco (UCaaS) and other vendors except for RingCentral’s Office@Hand.
Likely a Verizon employee (I will detail in a moment) saw the public AT&T post and heard Verizon was doing the same thing. Posted on both boards.
“Verizon Managed Services” leads me to believe this person was not specifically in the group affected, but knows enough to know secondary and tertiary level executives.
There is VBG which is the group that “managed services” (MNSO) is under, but many teams fall under MNSO:
VCE and UCC are the teams supporting the comparable products to what AT&T is spinning off. So are we losing these teams?