AT however, the company believes that it can handle any employee reductions through normal attrition as workers retire or quit. "We haven't made any announcements and this is something that's still several years off," said an AT&T spokewoman when asked by FierceWireless about potential job cuts. "We believe we can handle any reductions in large part through attrition, as employees retire or otherwise leave the business," she added.
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AT&T has said it wants to have 75 percent of its network be software-centric by 2020 and aims to complete the first 5 percent of that this year. As part of that shift, AT&T is looking to integrate its internal IT and network teams and adopt a DevOps model to emphasize such collaboration.