Even though the company has not confirmed this number, I believe it is true, if not even bigger. I wouldn’t expect anything other from the company then to deny it and try to mask these numbers with other statistics. The sad thing is that chances are that this trend will continue throughout 2019.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/424157-att-eliminated-more-than-10000-us-jobs-in-2018-union-says