Some mentioned wireless market centralization…What does wireless market centralization mean?
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You will not be transitioned to Ericsson, they have the resources already onboarding.
it means they're going to put one cell tower sm--k in the middle of the country, and shut the rest down for cost savings
Streamlining the business sounds like a win!
" I just hope they dont spin everyone off onto Ericsson like Sprint did"
No. They will just lay them off. Ericsson is in this to do more with less too ($$$), they are not looking to absorb a bunch of employees.
The official announcements for what has been talked about for weeks here went out today is all. RAN is basically handing the keys to Ericsson is all. Fancy terms like "Open RAN" etc, being bandied about. We are writing Ericsson a big check and telling them to take over our RAN engineering (RAN = Radio access network- basically our cell sites).
RAN engineering and support folks are (of course) mainly concerned with the impact to them and their teams.
In the next couple days they will be given the old "...there is nothing to worry about, we have a ton of work in front of us, we need you to stay focused..." yadda yadda schpiel.
And that is true to a degree, There is a lot of work that will be required in the next year or 2 for which Ericsson will still need a lot of these folks around. But the writing is clearly on the wall if you zoom out a bit. T would prefer to just outsource.
I just hope they dont spin everyone off onto Ericsson like Sprint did. We saw how that ended for Sprint.
At&t will need make changes in the balance sheet to accomodoate this new project. Where will they get the money? Looking at the last finiancials they will not be obtaining this money from revenue. So the only location is in liabilities. The easiest liability to cut is employees. How many? Let us do the math. $14 billion dollar deal over 5 years. That is $2.8 billion dollars a year. The average expense for an employee is $250 thousand a year. $2.8 billion divided by $250 thousand is 11,200. To balance the expense they will layoff a minimum 12,000 employees in 2024. Simple accounting.
With the deployment of OpenRAN, things will be standardized and simple. Say hello to AI & ML.
Your leadership team should be setting up a following meeting to discuss the details and impacts. Looks like local RAN team will only be monitoring performance.
where will HQ RAN team be hubed at? Dallas?
It means, many people will be fired.
“Centralized = standardization via HQ RAN team.” Sorry still unclear what that means? What does it mean for Local Market RAN Design and planning?
Centralized = standardization via HQ RAN team.