After 21 years working for this company which provided me with a good salary, a company car, laptop and mobile phone. All I had to do was work 7 days a week, 10 hours a day, as long as I created " revenue" & "good ‘numbers", nothing could happen to me.
To make a long story short, I wasn’t useful for the company anymore (although my group gained profits month after month) so I got kicked out of the company in a very bad way.
The multi product.layer initiatives, serve a purpose, The failure of U-verse was by design, 45% OSP/conditioning did not meet the criteria,but signed off by engineering due to pressure from senior leadership, they asserted this position in various press releases insisting that those limitations would be be solved by the DTV merger, Senior leadership argued, wrong again
From that time on I promised myself never to give a huge part of my time to a company that doesn’t give a sh-- about anyone, only themselves, to make lots of money, and to be in total control of what went right and wrong.
I was also part of the executive AT&T group to bring fiber-to-the-home to an additional 2 million customers, but to date it's still not clear exactly how many locations would get AT&T's fiber in the absence of the merger with DTV, The press and public aren't the only ones being conned, this company has consistently used its phantom fiber deployment as a carrot on a stick with regulators, at one point threatening to stop making these investments unless regulators walked back net neutrality, wrong again
AT&T backed off the claim when the FCC asked for hard data, but this kind of telecom theater works exceptionally well in state legislatures. Often AT&T claimed net neutrality prevented them from innovating, and this week they're portraying themselves as the innovator of the century (even though the only actual innovation here is in misleading PR. A House of Cards indeed.