AT&T will be eliminating those Nokia markets and converting them to Ericsson. Eliminating all Local RAN design teams to move towards national HQ RAN model. Ericsson will be the single OEM that will design, preform maintain AT&T's wireless network. Little risky putting all your eggs in one basket.
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Local RAN Optimization and Performance will stay for the time. Eventually, ranks will be thinned as Ericsson will take over. Nokia markets will switch over to Ericsson over the next couple of years.
C&E, RAN, and other groups will be impacted as well as Ericsson and subcontractors will perform work from design, C&E functions, optimization, and maintenance.
This is true, and everyone should know. More groups will be impacted.
Bump... stay tuned
Leadership has been working on consolidation of roles/responsibilities and locations. Additionally, working towards reducing the number of suppliers, equipment, etc.
Maybe the best decision OR maybe not the best decision. Either way it is happening and changes to the market and national teams are coming soon.
Leadership has not been shy on their intentions. Reduce employee counts and financial obligations.
When a company has more debt than what it is worth on the market, something has to be done.
This is simply a trade of services for guaranteed work for Ericsson. A win for both companies.
When you say eliminating local RAN Design teams, who will be handling the RAN performance and optimization at the local market level? Are they centralized this and or simply having Ericsson perform all this work?
OP is correct. Announcement first week of December.
I'm close enough to teams to be able to tell something is up, but not exactly what... this would make sense given the pieces I'm seeing.
Fun times ahead!
This is a pure fabrication. The massive cost alone of swapping out the infrastructure would destroy AT&T cash flow which is a non starter. Second, this was the model Sprint deployed and it basically destroyed their network and the company. Lousy network performance and reliability was the result, pi---d off customers the result of all this happening. Whomever posted this is full of cr-p and clearly has little understanding of the dynamics operationally and economically of doing such a thing. Please don’t waste our time.
What could go wrong with just using one OEM.... Ericsson has a great track record keeping up with supply and demand.
So I will be sure to not buy any Ericsson stock ...
Zero employee telco look it up
why not purchase a provider at their peak prices, maybe MCI , Nortel, Nextel, or sprint, as these companies are leaders in innovation. We can always sell them afterwards.
March 18 2021: AT&T signed a 5 year deal with Nokia to deploy Cband network.
This sounds fishy. Is there a legitimate source for this information other that an anonymous post?
There are a lot of places in the company where they are putting all the eggs in one basket. It’s to allow for quick transition and lay more folks off. It is short sighted view and will allow for these individual vendors to write their own check in the coming years. Leadership IS aware of this, but does not see another way to survive the few years.
The cost of swapping hardware makes this sound like a stretch… All that Cband and NR radios we spent years deploying, let’s rip and replace.
So which companies going to handle swapping out all the Nokia equipment? Ericsson or AT&T?
Nothing like putting all of one’s eggs in one basket…. One supplier never works…
This is actually a solid plan to help streamline operations.
Not risky at all, this makes good sense technically and financially, it's not like the Nokia RAN is a fail-over. The nuances between the Nokia & Ericsson RAN require some different technical requirements & costs to operate. Kudos to the standardization, should have happened years ago,