Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

I believe they wanted Direct TV for its Programming - and NEW customers from South America. ALSO lets not forget the boasting of the NFL package. So instead of shoring up the U-Verse property they went out and purchase the D-TV property and justified the purchase by the lower cost to go out and purchase packages. I'm pretty sure they never realized enough savings to justify purchase nor did the NEW customers put the acquisition over the top.

I left in 2017 by my own choice when direct tv now was released. I am really surprised they are losing direct tv now subscribers. I never understood the buying of direct tv. They had uverse and could of implemented streaming so easily with uverse and with spending much less money. But what do I know I don't have a master's degree or any of the nano degrees or certificates they were forcing upon their employees. I kept my skills up on my own time through my own means and it paid off with me getting a higher paid job. Not sure if any of the skills that att wanted to force on me would of been any good out in the market.

I don't really get what randy and johnny are doing and really all I want from att is a big fat dumb fiber pipe to my house. Thankfully the government made them install more fiber and I have a big fat dumb pipe to my house.

If it wasn't for wireless I think att would be bankrupt. johnny and randy wouldn't know innovation if it hit them in the face. I wonder how the beating google is going.

After being laid off Oct '18, my 20% retiree discount kicked in this month for DurecTV. I went from paying $10.70 to $128 a month. I disconnected the service, as a retiree I cannot afford the service even with the 20% discount. Landline and wireless are next.

And let's not forget the flat line wireless subscriber growth while VZ and T-Mobile gained 1.2M EACH.

Cable and sat based linear tv is going downhill fast. It was foolish for T to buy DTV, especially given the premium paid for it.

DTV ownership is still laughing.....

And I don't think the premium they paid for Time-Warner was worth it either.

And the $3B they paid T-Mobile for the failed merger has come back with a vengeance.

Why are T's C level execs still employed?

DTV was doing fine on it's own, AT&T came in and wrecked that boat

There is no way the id--ts in the c suite can spin this and make it a good news story... no way.