Omig !!! The whole strategy here is to make the stock explode !!!! Look at the open interest in the option market on VZ calls it’s insane!!! Huge bets !!!!! This is the recipe to do it! F--- innovation ! VZ realized along time ago it could beat Netflix, Google or Comcast in the video delivery models! They gave that up after a failed GO90 and IPTV testing that went bust!!! Thanks to useless Microsoft Edgcast advice that was wrong.
Now 5G is the talk of the town. Ok maybe that will turn churn the customer base, perhaps. If they can convince customers they are the one ultimate source for internet video and voice??
Outsourcing all of IT is the right thing to do. VZ is already moving to a Google cloud platform anyway. AWS is another source. Datacenters are not neeed anymore for VZ. COs are selective in what they need to do. For example Video Head Ends and leased POP global network facilities. Real estate is being sold !!! They even sold the headquarters in Basking Ridge!!
Just that hype alone in addition to the HUGE layoffs buyouts and employment reduction should get this stock moving like a technology company!!! VZ 85 per share by year end !!!
Thought this was a good post, as the OP ( @VVhAoCj-1jbx ) made some valid points. Although I can’t say that I agree with the part about outsourcing being justified, other than that this is all very true.