Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Nice post, poor leadership has greatly affected the company/employees as a whole and not in a positive way. Unfortunately the trend continues, no resemblance to Ma Bell we hired onto many years ago. Divesture and competition contributed to that too.

`Don’t feel bad because many other people are uneducated on how the network is built, a lot of them work for telecom too. `

We call the ones who mouth off m o r o n s.

Most people do use wireline if you have a cellphone, it’s connected to the cell towers, also elevators and your neighborhood pool.

When will the MOA expire, first of the year or when contract is up for D3 SE?

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Your IPhone ie.. cell phone is wireless to the cell tower, the cell tower is fed by copper or fiber (wireline) from a central office. Don’t feel bad because many other people are uneducated on how the network is built, a lot of them work for telecom too. There can be variations to this simple explanation but usually at some point wireline feeds nearly everything. SS7 signaling is here to stay for the foreseeable future so for now the switches in the CO’s aren’t going away as much as leadership would like them too but they are consolidating them in each office.

Expecting more tech layoffs in the core after the MOA between the Company and Union expires sometime next year, 2024.

Nice. SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!

`All employees are going to be expected to cover more work moving forward
since backfills are limited and there is a chronic hiring freeze.`

It's overtime opportunity for those who want to make money.
In the West overtime is optional unless they force the entire workgroup. Even then there is a limit to the number of hours forced.

Where can I plug in the wireline into my iPhone?

Verizon was smart to dump wireline 10 yrs ago (I.e. Frontier).

You first say “the last mile wireless internet, whatever that is, “
Then you say “requires fiber just like the 5G small cells. now you might have some wireless backhaul between antennaes but thats about it.”

If you don’t know what it is “ whatever that is” don’t answer…tool

fixed wireless is not a bad product, it was bad capacity managers that made it fail. you cant run 6 sectors of fixed along with the LTE traffic on one Gbe circuit. i imagine someone received a nifty bonus for money saved on those projects.

the last mile wireless internet, whatever that is, requires fiber just like the 5G small cells. now you might have some wireless backhaul between antennaes but thats about it.

sadly for some employees, we will probably fair better overall as a wholesale provider.

The only viable business unit T has is mobility..period. Wireline AND Fiber will be a thing of the past with roll out of last mile wireless internet access. This is happening now, its only lags due to infrastructure build out, radios , and connectivity to towers, that’s it. Everything else is done. Mobility margins have been consistently eroding and that won’t stop, simply Google MVNO for any carrier and compare pricing. T and V are way out of line and are hugging sand. The writing is one the wall folks, it’s easy to ignore if you have no other plan for your career, but it will eventually hit people over the head at the worst possible time.

Telecom fiber dreams are going bye bye. most people I know don't have Wireline products.

Don’t worry as soon as they get more customers moved over to fiber the prices will start escalating.

I think another, often overlooked aspect is that the fiber is also sold at an extremely low margin. ARPU just isn’t there. In short, you have to sell a lot more to make the revenue you once did, while the value per dollar is also shrinking. Some would call that a death spiral.

In my neighborhood 6 years ago yards tore up ans new copper bored and pulled in, 5 years ago same thing for fiber conduit, however not one home in the area can get reliable internet. On the other side of the neighborhood along a major road an other fiber project, however the contractors said they are not putting it in for att. He said he was the brother of the owner of the company and they won't work for att because they demand below cost work and they can't pay the help what they need to. He att used to pay 60 days out then it was 90 or more so his brother won't work for them.

"Stankey stressed that AT&T has been able to hit penetration rates of 30% "relatively quickly" with fiber, but acknowledged that the "next 20% takes a little bit longer."

10/2022

Maybe the higher interest rates are a bigger factor in all these layoffs than I previously thought. This company cannot seem to build out without the banks.

I believe the OP is correct in the amount of fiber coverage across all AT&T, approximately 30%. I’ve seen the same % stated in news articles or company officers in statements/interviews over last couple of years.

Recent statements and goal by company officials is to reach 30 million fiber points of contact or potential customers by end of the current ongoing project. There has been some pullback recently in capital outlay for various fiber projects due to FCF misses.

“and it’s still barely over 30% of coverage for AT&T’s 22 state area. ”

How old are the stats you’re quoting? We haven’t had a 22 state area for almost a decade.

They told us at CP training that one of the contingencies is the company running short on cash for fiber upgrades.

All employees are going to be expected to cover more work moving forward
since backfills are limited and there is a chronic hiring freeze.