Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

STEPHENS:" We certainly hope it’s our own fiber but.....LOL

Since when T's network reaches customer premises in fiber? LIES AND MORE LIES, but some more details about its new set-top box and streaming DirecTV product while also spelling out how it will eventually end its satellite service and cut costs.

AT&T CFO John Stephens spoke Wednesday morning at the Morgan Stanley European Technology, Media and Telecom Conference and discussed DirecTV’s new premium streaming TV process.

“It’s a device that allows us to, instead of rolling a truck to the home, we roll a UPS or FedEx truck to the home and deliver a self-install box. This allows the customer to use their own broadband. We certainly hope it’s our own fiber but i

t could be on anybody’s broadband. And they get the full-service premium package that we would normally deliver off satellite or over our IP-based U-verse service,” Stephens said.

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AT&T management- buy buy buy!!! More debt!!! This company is run as competently as congress!

We will have a junk rating very soon and will have the same fate as GE.

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Post ID: @2oce+WbDyoTu

another gadget to put in my drawer, so silly

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Post ID: @2rlp+WbDyoTu

They wan’t to launch an iptv device and hope competitor and out of market isps are just going to give them a free lane on their networks for video? LOL .

This is how you know the product is already a failure. Spend all your money on NOT upgrading your isp footprint so it can handle 4K and future video formats and then slit your own throat by lobbying and suing away net neutrality, the very rules that stopped isps from throttling, blocking and extorting internet video providers. Amazing.

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Post ID: @1iul+WbDyoTu

1irf great points, that debt will be the anchor that sinks the company, I suspect they will have to sell off some assets soon. I don't get it why they did not learn from Armstrongs folly in the 1990s. but that is the arrogance of humans, they think when certain things fail its because it was not done right. note the Democrats love affair with Socialism despite 0 evidence that it works.

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Post ID: @1flj+WbDyoTu

No every company can pull 200B in debt in 6 years, and have not consequences. Not looking good at all, I refer you to Occam's razor theory, more commonly described as 'the simplest answer is most often correct,' although this is an oversimplification. The 'correct' interpretation is that entities should not be multiplied needlessly

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Post ID: @1irf+WbDyoTu

AT&T WILL FAIL, JUST AS THE TMOBILE, DTV AND NOW TW I NC. QUESTION IS: " WILL YOU BE EMPLOYED AFTER THE DUST SETTLES? LOL

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Post ID: @1lqo+WbDyoTu

@yav by now you should realize most of the criticism of att is rooted in ignorance aka trolls. You can pretty much discount most of it. There is plenty of missteps the company make. Show me a company that does not do to. Company’s are on top one year and out of business the next. Running a company is hard work. It does not excuse some Od the lousy decisions att and others make.

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Post ID: @1vuj+WbDyoTu

fiber installs are costly, vs the potential profit, no one is signing 24 Months agreemenrs anymore.

times are changing, Along with jobs dissipating in thin air

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Post ID: @1var+WbDyoTu

We really should have completed the transition to a software company a few years ago. Then we could make apps for these other self install devices. Instead of clinging to the past and trying to make a device that we can sell at an archaic retail store.

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Post ID: @1thm+WbDyoTu

Unfortunately, droves of people already have a cheap, easy, self-install set up they can use with any broadband...Roku, FireTV/Stick, AppleTV...

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Post ID: @1xmr+WbDyoTu

The self-install box is a management wet dream.What management doesn't get is this, customers DONT WANT self-install !!!

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Post ID: @1eye+WbDyoTu

We have been doing fiber to the prem for at least 5 years. Does anyone do any research before they post on this site? It’s constantly inaccurate information and rumors.

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Post ID: @yav+WbDyoTu

Not one executive has outside plant experience . This is why we are failing our customers. Att has spread itself to other areas in which they have little to no knowledge. The company is dying because they have abandoned their base and tried new areas without improving those areas in which we were already dominant and let catv take over.....

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Post ID: @ecx+WbDyoTu

Are you stupid? Yes AT&T actually does provide fiber to customers homes in certain markets.

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Post ID: @kbs+WbDyoTu

Stephens is a swamp creature earned his B.S.B.A. degree in accounting from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, with no formal training in anything of value, he us just an insider.

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Post ID: @vgc+WbDyoTu

You nailed it, a bunch of incompetent clowns, always manking the wrong decisions, why AT&T CAN'T be like Google, or Amazon? can they hire the right people?

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