#wireless

Email went out announcing that the AVP for Wireless Supply Chain will transition to the N&T Fiber team in September.

I wonder what the next few weeks of shuffling and reorgs will look like.

It's not exactly a startup since it's been around for a while, but I'm still a bit uncertain about its future. Would you take the risk?

AT&T recorded 367,000 fiber net additions and 279,000 fixed wireless net additions. Fiber connections rose 22.8% year over year to 12.87 million, while fixed wireless connections climbed 77.4% to 2.61 million. Thank you JS and RTO!!!

July has been talked about for 2 months now as the "big one" but will it be and who's getting hit? Wireless? Wireline? Retail? I know we will find out next week, if true, but if anyone is aware please share. Thanks.

In addition PE Firm acquiring Wireless Maritime(Cruise Ships)

to maintain the towers. The general contractor then hires cheap, underpaid, unsafe, and sometimes undocumented labor to maintain the towers. VZ knows this, but can claim ignorance (we hired E/// to maintain it, not our problem....). Willful ignorance on the part of VZ. Happening across the country.

https://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2026/verizons-move-on-carolina-west-wireless-gives-fcc-chairman-carr-a-clear-leverage-point-on-contractor-commitments/

Directly from the article:
Ericsson, which Verizon selected as a preferred supplier despite that company having eliminated its entire U.S. field services operation in October 2023 — laying off approximately 750 employees — has no self-performing crews and will subcontract the work it has been awarded. That subcontract market is where undocumented workers, misclassified 1099 labor, and suppressed safety standards are most concentrated.

There are too many posts on this board expressing animosity between the wireless and wireline sides of the business. If you’re contributing to this animosity, you should stop! It’s silly! I’ll explain why below.

One recurring theme is that wireless couldn’t survive without wireline. Way back when, all wireless operators used T-1s and DS-3s and that generated quite a bit of revenue for the LECs. As capacity needs increased, they shifted to fiber about 20 years ago. There are a lot of fiber providers so wireless is no longer dependent on wireline but getting fiber from your own company is better for the balance sheet. Would you rather we paid AT&T for fiber?

It’s also true that wireless was initially financed by wireline but so what? Wireline saw an opportunity and they took it. T-Mobile was financed by investors outside of wireline and they’re doing just fine.

In short, wireless would do just fine without wireline and wireline would do fine without wireless but they are better together because there are significant synergies including bundling services. So stop this silliness! There’s enough drama and nonsense in the company and you don’t need to add to that.

Starlink/SpaceX will be going after every cable and fiber ISP customer as early as this year. AST SpaceMobile which we have like a 2% stake in (Somebody somewhere in AT&T had a brain) will be going after the wireless customers as early as next year. Rocket Lab and Space X in the satellite payload biz. Rocket Lab and SpaceX beaming solar energy back to the ground. Meanwhile AT&T employees will be monitoring their presence reports. Is 7.7 hours enough? Good news. 6.7 is enough!

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20523544-at-and-t-makes-19-billion-commitment-to-bring-high-speed-connectivity-to-california

I heard that the Cisco Wireless team was also affected due to low revenue in last layoff. Do you have any idea about the current situation with Cisco Spaces, Meraki, and the DNAC team?

https://youtu.be/VYaMPUHoQJ0?si=067YVl9oQ2XkEukG

A lot of chatter around layoffs, but it seems that they are going to just starve out and fire folks in the B2B Mid Market space. Unattainable quotas, 30 day PIP process, calls for 75% of our time which limits finding real deals within our base. Over 22 years with the company, I cost more than most of my peers. I would be a natural layoff candidate. Would love to hang for a RIF, but I do not think they are ever going to let us go like that when they can get rid of us all free.

Anyone see it differently?

The wireless industry does not traditionally have a great reputation when it comes to being transparent. That was the basis of T-Mobile’s entire Un-carrier strategy, which forced Verizon and AT&T to drop what used to be the mainstays of how the industry charged.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-ceo-admits-apologized-huge-172100197.html

https://youtube.com/shorts/RZzdS6PArYw?si=cRm6Isbud72QKxZy

Since the beginning of this week the signal has dropped to one or two bars. Is there something up with our Fem to cell repeaters?

Happy former 30 year employee and current interest is only as an investor. Verizon needs to become a pure play Consumer focused company Wireless/Internet. Parts are worth more than the sum. Verizon Business would be one example. Sell it and other lower margin businesses to PE markets. Regulated side is more difficult to divest due to the obvious reasons.

Insider here.
If you're in wireless, GET OUT. NOW.
No joke.

Verizon is now offering a better deal than Xfinity mobile or Spectrum mobile.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/verizon_frontier-is-joining-verizon-activity-7422324405147598849-GOkc

We now go back to our regularly scheduled programming of hating on Verizon and its leadership

Ericsson, T-Mobile, Telefónica Announce Early 2026 Job Cuts

https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/2026-layoff-tracker

Ericsson announced 1,600 job cuts in Sweden on January 15. This represents a 12% reduction in its home country workforce. T-Mobile also quietly reduced sales positions nationwide, as reported on January 12. Telefónica plans up to 5,000 layoffs, mostly in Spain, by year-end. The company will offer $3 billion in compensation to affected employees.

layoffs/store closures if anyone’s aware? I hear traffic is non existent

Where are all the wireless people who tell us how much better they are than landline today? Working to fix this outage I hope

Nope.

https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/att-hunt-more-345-ghz-spectrum

What else T does and should do to survive the next 20 years?

Fixed Wireless Johnny Stinkey. Not everyone wants or needs Ferrari like Fiber Speeds. 9/10 are content with Fixed Wireless. Running Fiber all over the map is a Stinkey move. Johnny Stinkey is always a day late and a dollar short.

https://share.google/uPYtKCB2rrthJEKfu

Hahahahahahahaha. Don't forget chargebacks also! Merry Christmas!

Any news?

Did some research this weekend. T-Mobile has a family plan special. 4 free iPhone 17s at $25 per line (approx $140/mo with taxes/fees).

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/apple-iphone-deals?INTNAV=tNav%3ADeals%3AApple

https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/verizon-rumored-be-laying-25-5g-enterprise-team

There is a major gap between Verizon’s international leadership and its US subscribers... For VZ to survive we should focus on America and completely stop offshoring to Europe and India. This got us nowhere and it's getting worse - we should focus on quality and stop this short term fixes that are causing chaos and rot.

I’m ready for a change!

My location will transition to Your Wireless Indirects, has anyone heard of them, and what the commission/company is like?

Is launching a new commercial. Just saw the “hard work” the team is super excited for on LinkedIn. Tone deaf!

How many Verizon Corporate locations are in the US ? This will help scale the size of the layoff

Anyone hear anything regarding internal care teams or case management/ert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-bEhI2nNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-bEhI2nNw

So believe me when I tell you right now their going to give up about 200 corporate owned run retail stores to authorized retailers or close completely some locations,but over the next few years Verizon plans to have no corporate owned stores .All 3rd party sellers.I believe if your on the Verizon Wireless retail side start planning to get out . Even if you survive these Layoffs over the year or 2 .The end is near