Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

@1blb I smell what your cooking brother

Hell yeah the company wants everyone to still have a voip home phone, it’s another add on $$$

I wish I could sell anything to 5% of the population let alone 45%. I’d be a gazillionaire. Or wait ATt does sell to more then 5% of the population. ATT is a gazillionaire. Guess they’re doing something right. @1uly please say our company doesn’t waste our money on you.

So 54.1% of the people don’t have them, basically over half of the population and that is a bragging point? Plus quite a few of the landlines are add on to bundles and never used. As one poster mentioned, you can get a 300 pair cable cut, might have 50 customers and only 3-4 care enough about the service to call in a report. Such a great business that the companies that stayed in this business are near bankruptcy.

Please stop with the Landlines discussion. There is only one reason why landlines will eventually dye... Too costly to maintain!!! Revenue vs costs = negative!!!

Landlines of old, did carry just dial tone however, these same landlines of yesteryear, carry internet today for the same customers. So yeah. Landlines aren't dead, they just renamed for what they're used for in the NEW improved service of today. BTW. A very neglected infrastructure.

@1bcw Easy to find out that 45.9% still have landlines. Seniors only make up 15.6% of the population. Of course, the growth isn't in landlines because once they have the landline installed there's not much else to sell them. It's hard to sell a landline to a poor person, single person home, or someone who's hardly home who already has a cellphone, because why take on the extra cost. People who have money and families buy landlines. Saying people under 20 don't know what a phone jack is, is ignorant since 45.9% have the lines still. If they were born in 2000, they probably saw a phone line before since smart phones like iPhone and Android didn't come out until 2007-2008 and most people didn't get them until around 2012.

The government lifeline program should be landline only. That would help cut down on the fraud.

I agree. Show us your data @1bcw of the number of landlines currently sold each month by ATT, Verizon, and some of the top cable companies. I guarantee well over tens of millions. Everyone has opinions which is fine, but the facts are there is an available market out there. A much more available market then new cell customers or internet connections. With the right price, marketing push, and a simple added feature like text to home (can be done over landline) it could have growth potential. Let’s face it, we’ll never add more then 100k new cell customers again. At $20 a month and the right advertisement you could add 100k new customers in a month to landline in just a single State.

Obviously a company troll. Those posts always show up within 5 minutes of any positive mention of a landline. Many people still have landlines, we still sell tens of millions a month. Look at catv #’’s. They went from 0 ten years ago to tens of millions of lines a month. People still have them, att just doesn’t want to sell them. Milleny’s don’t buy the because they still live in their parents basement.

I'm sorry to say it, but you're living in the past @zrf. Most people under the age of 60 don't have a landline in their house. In fact, few people under the age of 20 even know what a phone jack is.

I hear that. Cable company runs landlines for $20 a month. We ask $65+. The company has done everything they can to make people get rid of them. A landline makes a house a home. My little kids know their home phone number incase they are ever in the situation where they need to reach home. Also, in an emergency like a fire or someone is hurt, a robbery, they can go to the wall and call 911. Better then looking under the couch cushions to find where a cell might be. If someones 8yr old is in a bad situation and someone asks them what is your phone number, what will they say when each parent has a different cell company every promotion?

Nothing new. If the attrition continues at the normal yearly pace we should see losses of around 750,000 more land lines when you figure the first quarter is behind us. The customer base will shrink the available technicians. Almost makes you wonder if stopping a lot of promotional orders wasn’t figured in.

Always bring in the new am to do the dirty work. Next words out of his mouth will be just be thankful you have a job. Thanks for supporting stankey's raise.

Try to run them out of $$$.

Cheaper to pay OT than another tech.

Play by their rules and profit.