Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

T is probably the only company where 80% of its workforce at this point wants to be laid off. I wanna be laid off. Im sick and tired of the thugs in charge. The hostile work environment affecting everyones sanity.

To the casual observer, this won’t seem like much. To those who understand the spectrum wars, it’s an earthquake.

@d1 right, you’re a genius... The stock is down 10% today because it’s a “nothing burger” … you’re a fu--ing restard

@d6 and all stinky does is lose. They’re like polar opposites

Can't wait to hear Stankey and rest of the leaders dismiss this much like many of them dismissed T-Mobile a decade ago. Look how that turned out for us. We're cooked.

@d1 It's a something burger, Eduardo. Wall Street knows it. Musk has yet to have a spectacular failure. And once mobile launches, many will hop on over. And that will hurt T right where it matters - postpaid

This is a nothing burger, FirstNet has already seen adoption of Starlink across both the public and private sector agencies over the past several years. Satellite certainly has its place but the cost is still generally prohibitive for most customers and it's primarily looked at as connectivity as a last resort. Shortly, we along with Vz will integrate ASTS into our mobile devices and terrestrial coverage will still be the primary form of connectivity, a benefit for FirstNet is that we will provide the same QPP for the Satellite connectivity as we do for cellular-something that I doubt that Starlink will offer without having to pay a premium.

AT&T has been on life support ever since the T-mobile, DirecTV, and Warner debacles. There has never been a way to right the ship after that. A $200 billion dollar company can't make $200 billion dollar mistakes. If we had spent that money building fiber networks in the 2010's we would be the most powerful network operator on the planet and a real alternative and participant in the LEO bandwidth market. Since we chose otherwise, we are just an overpriced holding company for spectrum and a few spinoff last-mile fiber ISP assets that are now being swamped by competitors because we did not press our advantage when we had it.

Looks like Karma is coming for T ...i cannot wait to see it fail, rat bstrds firing everyone with 25+ yrs service....F T hope they go down in huge flames

Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.

Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer.

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns.

The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.

From a technical perspective you guys are all over reacting. In some ways starlink's success will be it's down fall...it's like nobody remembers when netflix got big in the early 2010's and our peering links blew up. They already have limits with CGNAT and inherent latency, add a bunch of subs to blow up the routing tables and expose their TCP session caps...please. I haven't even touched on their terrestrial peering setups and contracts much less government compliance issues like CALEA.

It's like nobody here works in telecommunications.

We deserve this. How the board kept Stankey as the CEO after all his failures and even made him Chairman is the root cause,

We lost, because we’re lead by losers

What I find hilarious is that just a couple of weeks ago Stankey said he wasnt worried about SpaceX since their technolgy could not penetrate structures. The guy is so full of hubris that he forgot to look under the rug.

This is just another nail in the coffin for T and VZ too.

Starlink connectivity to a phone needs a clear view to the sky. No indoor usage. He’ll have to have cell towers to and all that spectrum that’s already sold to make it work in a huge way. He did buy 19mhz license from dish.

you're all cooked. glad i left this behemoth shithole years ago.

This is not a repost. This news came out today effectively enabling Starlink to penetrate through walls in buildings

Pretty sure this is a repost, but true

Starling is coming and is going to be a disruptive in the wireless real no matter T’s WFH or RTO status. T’s biggest problem has been the inability to innovate for several decades.

Buy SPCX. Short T. Soon you will no longer need to work. Leadership matters.