In laymen's turn, we are reaching out to the low income to show them we are a good company and care for all. Except, we don't care about our employees who are an expense. Make internet affordable for all including those that can't pay - sounds like another Stankey losing deal!! He'll cut employee costs to pay for this
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If I remember correctly, expanding connectivity to rural/low-income areas was part of the agreement and terms that T had to accept and agree to in order for their mergers to be approved.
In other words, this wasn't anything to do with Stink. T was mandated to expand connectivity. If Stink had his way, he would never do something like this.
The fact that Stink is now crowing about it is just more proof of his sociopathy. It's like those maga congresspeople who vote against infrastructure bills, then go to their local town halls to brag about all the federal money pouring in to their community.
Where were the results from the previous commitments? Seems like a waste and deflection from real problems like RTO and employee pay.
After RJS fired Bill Smith, Network has been a disaster just the way SBC leadership likes it.
I'll be gone and using the competition's products anyway.
Wow. Is it me? This is the standard att deflection from the real problem(s). For example: disconnecting local lines from customers and forcing them into a higher margin product. Or outsourcing almost everything to line the pockets of suits with $$$$$. Writing automations on top of other automations where we don’t know what the h e l l is going on. Outsourcing tech support to, that are clueless. Should I start with our “work in the HUBS” d-mb $ h I t ?
Bottom line leadership don’t care or know what’s going on anymore.
Have you wasted time on our town halls?
But we can deflect better than anyone!
$5 billion pays a lot of jobs. Go AT&T.
Just another C suite lie! 2030 is light years away and any body with half a brain will remember how often T takes money off the table when they think no one is paying attention. Losers!
The belt is about to tighten again. Time to drill another hole.
This might be about Federal BEAD money.
Build out a network with the intention to not get a return on the investment.
Another business savvy decision by our Dear Leader.
Where is the extra money coming from? Layoffs?
This actually makes a lot of sense since T is no longer viewed as a premier brand.
Uh… $5B by 2030 is roughly $1B per year and last I checked it’s what we were already spending on buildout. Just think, if we hadn’t blown our wad on DTV and WarnerMedia, we’d have already built that all 7 years ago. Brave move. Do what you should have done 7 years ago and focusing on core competencies of telcoms. Pure genius. Make sure they give you a bonus!
Spending money? We’ve been consistently laying off and have been in a hiring freeze for almost 2 years now with no end in sight. Non-stop cutbacks is not investing.
At least when we get laid off we can go get affordable Internet.
CEO for Dummies, Chapter 19 Preempting: When regulation is imminent, pretend you’re acting on your own to do similar action then communicate what a magnanimous & powerful CEO you are.
Wateing the weeds and pullingthe corn out by the roots is a bad way to grow the garden.
The Stink is trying to get a taste of the Federal Kommie $ give-away. He may as well. Helps line his bank account. One Trillion dollars every 100 days gots to go somewhere. May as well be Toxic-T.