Study on AT&T’s fiber deployment: 1Gbps for the rich, 768kbps for the poor Median incomes $41,000 higher where AT&T builds fiber in California. JON BRODKIN - APR 25, 2017 8:01 PM UTC Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock AT&T's deployment of fiber-to-the-home... — read more 

AT&T misses on Q1 revenues, cites low wireless equipment sales Additionally, AT&T is no longer providing revenue guidance primarily due to "the unpredictability of wireless handset sales." By Stephanie Condon for Between the Lines | April 25, 2017 --... — read more 

1. COR stores are being eliminated and transitioned to authorized retail. Look around - your stores are empty - you are expensive. This isn't just at&t - look @ retail in general. When was the last time you bought something in a store besides... — read more 

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The layoffs in 2016 and 2017 don't appear on the state unemployment websites. How is that possible and what games are they playing to hide the layoffs from public view? Is Randall paying someone off to get the benefit of cuts without the negative... — read more 

On Tuesday, after the closing bell, AT&T will report its 1Q17 earnings. In this article, I list some of the key questions that I will have in mind as I analyze the company's results. AT&T seems like a name worth considering adding to a long-term... — read more 

BAE's will be given surplus notice at end of Q2 as Authorized Retail will have their teams in place. Many Sales Manager's supporting retail will be surplussed as well. Only solace for you is if company deems you worthy of different role and... — read more 

Our company gives a LOT, T is committed to the development, growth and improvement of the Employees, and investing billions into the economy, providing quality jobs to over 200K people in US, And have more full-time UNION workers than any other... — read more 

The CWA are cowards that have no intention of calling any strike. They know if they do there are enough RSCs that won't strike along with management employees to fill the COR stores in while directing any overflow of customers to the closest... — read more 

The secret sauce for AT&T is innovation, and it's in its DNA, However, its latest transformation by technological disruption, through a different range of technologies and partnerships that will brings us steps away from our telecom roots. Only the... — read more 

Got the word from my union rep that we're going in strike May 1st. If we do go on strike we better do it for 1 month to show T that we mean business.

I thought I saw on here a few days ago that the TFS Midwest was cancelled. Any more on that?

Move to El Segundo or Dallas, or lose your job. Happy Friday...

If you live in California you are entitled to waiting time penalties if they paid you a day later than Mar 31. Other states, you should have gotten the paycheck by April 6 for the next pay period. In California commissions are considered earnings due... — read more 

We all know that the West will go on a strike any day. My question is, what is going to happen to all of the DIRECTV techs? Are they going to become Prem-techs or are they going to have their own different appendix?

Seems you never hear about manager layoffs - when are they going to have a mass layoff?

I was with AT&T for 17 years. They brought a new 21 year old manager in, and every other month she put me on a step of discipline for "behaviors". First it was for not demoing digital life to EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER, then they quit caring about digital... — read more 

Can you think of a more embarrassing sight, than what passes for a union leader these days? These guys are the most pathetic bunch of losers I've seen since my ninth-grade metal shop class. I am convinced that hundreds of years from now, when... — read more 

Anyone have any more info about this VSP offer? Was it just for system techs?

AT&T just settled the Wall Street debate over the value of high bandwidth airwave rights suitable for super-fast next generation wireless networks. Shares of tiny wireless startup Straight Path Communications, which owns a boatload of airwave rights... — read more 

Call volume extremely low in Southeast region. Any word on why that happened? Is this a sign of things to come? Everyone was given the option to leave early, regardless of seniority.

Like many of us I was overqualified when I accepted an RSC position, but it gave me a chance to get my degree and have someone help with the cost. I have seen the writing on the wall in COR and taken the plunge elsewhere. I did RMDP and was offered... — read more 

Looks like the ready! shoot! aim! Strategy is alive and well at ATT. After announcing a surplus of technicians last month management has decided to cancel that decision based on workload.

Just got told VSP offered to some techs in Ft Worth TX but not to all Texas techs. Anyone aware of this?

Any updates here? Please.

A new Instagram account by the name of atthumor has emerged and is taking over like a wild fire. I've been following them for the last few weeks and they went from a few hundred to over 3k followers. And I must say, their material is accurate. Worth... — read more 

AT&T's $1.6 billion acquisition of Straight Path Communications at first glance may seem like management continues to be on a path to empire building at the expense of shareholders. After all, the deal is an all-stock deal that is yet another example... — read more 

NW Mobility All the big talk in the emails to your members but you keep failing the same audience. How about backing away from your strong language, belligerent emails to your members and get us a fking contract? Absolutely the worst union ever...... — read more 

Innovation is the key idea that is shaping corporate life, but out helpless leaders couldn't conceived previously unimagined strategic options . acquisitions, as an example, T is buying earnings through acquisitions and It will only work only for so... — read more 

Has any surplused ASM whose last day on payroll was March 31st received their final paycheck yet? I haven't received mine so I'm wondering if I was supposed to have gotten in already or not.

RETAIL, RETAIL, RETAIL, MARSHA! MARSHA! MARSHA! There ARE other groups/departments within the company. Any news, updates or rumors on anywhere else for a change/?!

Authorized Retail locations only buy 2 shirts for their managers and reps, which means they have to buy the rest if they have any personal hygiene. With all the assistant managers laid off, they could sell their clothing to the AR employees who have... — read more 

The Writers Guild of America for the first time has explicitly said it will indeed strike this year if its current contract expires May 1 without a renewed deal in place with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The statement... — read more 

When is the next layoff going to be taking place? Anyone know?

Warning of the adverse effects a writers strike would have on the proposed $85 billion merger of AT&T and Time Warner, the WGA has sent letters to the companies’ institutional shareholders urging them to reach out to management and insist they... — read more 

Google- YouTube TV launches today. It has some very cool features, nothing like the botched AT&T release, People fed up with paying for cable the traditional way will soon be able to subscribe to it from YouTube to offer a version of cable that looks... — read more 

AT&T May Tumble Further as we are the top loser in the S&P 500 on Thursday. The stock finished the session on its lows for the day after opening with a very damaging downside gap. T is looking quite vulnerable to further downside. Investors should... — read more 

Please- at least once in your post, spell out your acronyms! Just because your local group might know what you mean doesn't mean everyone does- T is a big place...