The answer
At&t is planning to lease out the Radio Access Network (RAN) including the frequency spectrum
The company is not doing well and only left with this option to stay in business
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"If they are this low, and want to lease the frequencies, I am sure they will layoff everyone in the RAN business "
ENRON WORLCOM here we go.
A technician will always be able to find a job. No India and no automation will ever change that.
AT&T should wait for T-RAN. It will be better than anything else out there.
"Vertualization" wow
“I am not as smart as many of you here, but the way I see this handover to Ericsson is no different compare to moving the call center to India”
Actually, you are the smartest one here, summarizing the deal in one sentence
I am not as smart as many of you here, but the way I see this handover to Ericsson is no different compare to moving the call center to India
morning! To turds circling the bowl.
"Now I know why at&t network is the worst, because it is run by people like you, so ignorant and unskilled"
ok smart guy what is vertualization?
it was sarcasm, because op spelled vIrtualization wrong
" You only safe if you work on sites"
You really think so? The only thing providing any job security whatsoever is the fact that the cell site techs are bargained for. And that is hardly any protection at all as the company routinely contracts out whatever they want to anyway. Not much of a stretch to envision a scenario where they just completely hand everything over to Ericsson. Ericsson would subcontract the cell site operations and maintenance to lowest bidder.
“ because there is no such thing as "vertualization"”
Now I know why at&t network is the worst, because it is run by people like you, so ignorant and unskilled
Read and learn before you put dump comments like this
because there is no such thing as "vertualization"
D-mbest post ever and not worth a grain of salt or truth.
I thought USA law prevents offshore RF engineers to manage our network. Did the law change?
For those who think AT&T will keep any employee in the RAN business after the handover to Ericsson
80% of Ericsson RF engineers are located in India and China, and they remotely manage hundreds of thousands of RF sites around the world
They can run the AT&T RF network at pennies to the dollar
AT&T will layoff every one work on the network RAN design or optimization, national team or markets.
You only safe if you work on sites
We will be the first operator to do full scale open ran in the world, imagine that!
First to try this in a scale :D
Buckle up and get ready for the ride ;)
If they are this low, and want to lease the frequencies, I am sure they will layoff everyone in the RAN business
So what?
Let them lease the frequency as long we have a job
I don’t think T will succeed in this anyway
They never got anything right for many years
And this option in the long run will cost $14billions and thousands of layoffs
I can’t believe this leadership
I think the company has options, get rid of JS for a start