Regarding the recent debate about whether AT&T should sell DirecTV and does ATT&T need DirecTV after the TimeWarner acquisition, I want to say that potential would just represent getting rid of the consequences of a problem and not solving it. To clarify, the problem with DirecTV was caused by the way AT&T conducted business with it after the acquisition and selling it would just sweep the problem under the rug while the same flawed practices that got us into this mess would be still present. In other words, they bought something that was functioning perfectly fine and made it a business that loses subscribers and can’t produce revenue. Generally speaking, at this point AT&T could live without DirecTV but is the same ill ways and flawed practices are still there, whos to say they will not mess up any other business or acquisition.
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AT&T s---s the life out of you, abd everything it comes in conctact with, Companies & employees alike
The problem is Randall Stephenson
@eyo, sorry about that, we Boomers get crotchety in are old age, blatant stupidity tends to hit that "nerve." I’ll try to do better, but no guarantees ok? :-)
3rd party installers arent helping the reputation of dtv
DTV is a great product and DTV employees are great. But like the video cassette, the technology is becoming obsolete and it was an absolutely awful investment. We could have done mobile streaming of WarnerMedia content without it.
ATT just needed DTV contracts. Satellite business was never their priority.
While DTV wasn't exactly gaining subscribers, the advantage at the time was having a way to transition to 4k, their distribution contracts, and as was mentioned, their spectrum.
Lots of folks bashing them on some of these boards but I found the DTV folks to be excellent colleagues in almost every case. In all honesty they needed a year or two for adjustment to the T machine, and who the hell wouldn't, we aren't exactly known for our internal diplomacy.
Then we basically just had reorgs over and over after that, disruption after disruption in departments and projects. Explaining yourself over to a new set of leadership whose love of the "one-pager" just became comical. Hey I mean if your a leader who has a new job every 1-3 years kinda hard to pin you down on those numbers. The average ATO project in T seems to take 18-36 months to mature, and by that time the company sometimes gets cold feet, runs out of patience or cash, or just de-funds it because a shiny new ball got tossed into the room.
Consistently having multiple teams working on the same problems with no clear delineation of responsibility just slows down everyone. Buying pipe dreams from equipment and service vendors, then not having enough backbone to penalize them for poor performance or not delivering working code is not acceptable.
One thing we had a hell of a lot of though, were people who wanted AT&T to be the best and worked hard to further that. ATO has been surplusing for years now, the morale has slipped to the point where our expectation that the company will get something right has diminished exponentially. This can be turned around, but we need clear goals and actionable items with real roadmaps that we can stick to. No more lofty words or townhall's that are mostly fluff.
We make money despite ourselves, meanwhile creating most of our own self-imposed roadblocks and inefficiencies. It doesn't have to be this way.
Wishing the best to all AT&T employees this year, hoping you find your way no matter what occurs.
The geniuses commenting here seem clueless to the fact that DirecTV also owned a bunch of 5G ready spectrum.
In the age of cord-cutters, I don’t see how DIRECTV Satellite has any growth potential. Hopefully we can salvage something by converting the majority of the cord-cutters to DIRECTV Now subscribers.
Looks like someone hit a nerve.
@qxh, you are very amusing and speaking as a skilled, veteran Boomer....please except my invitation to bite me....on or off the "roof."
@qxh, by all means, please except my invitation to come up to my "roof" while I will tell you about my Pension (which you are obviously angry you don’t have) and share the "table sc-aps" as you will find this Boomer dining with a "bunch" of up to date, "skilled, veterans" you only wish you could be!
Please consider classes for those anger issues.
Don’t have the claws and still working on "happy" but hey, as they say, you can’t have everything!
AT new employeees pick up on it immediately, and there is no way anyone with any shred of dignity sticks around in this place unless they are being paid through the roof or have a pension.
So that leaves a bunch of unhappy, outdated, under-skilled veterans clawing at each over table sc-aps.