 viperpa33sWhy Me?Premium
join:2002-12-20
Bradenton, FL | Only change I see The only change I see is layoffs. How many people they will layoff is another question. AT&T is going to want big cost savings due to the incentives that were given to approve the merger.
Besides all the incentives are temporary anyways. As far as I can see, they are not bringing anything significant to the table. About the only thing that will happen is AT&T will be able to expand the services they already have.
If AT&T offered naked DSL at 6mb speeds, they I would say they are doing something significant. If AT&T offered 6mb DSL to everyone in there coverage area instead of 80%, then I would say that is significant. |
| the incentives were minimal, they were in the process of doing them anyway, why would they lay anyone off? if they were going to lay anyone off they would have done it with the AT&T merger, there were many departments that overlapped, they waited and enough people retired before they needed to lay anyone off.
Bellsouth is established, look at the management shifts, it will be treated as Ameritech was, they merge certain area's and leave the rest alone. They are going to call it something like AT&T Southeast or something like that, like they call the Ameritech region AT&T Midwest, each region has it's own management and all the regions offer the same services. When they merged Ameritech, they took some of the systems we used and adopted them corporate wide, some of the systems were the same in both companies and others were merged from SBC. It was nothing drastic. |
viperpa33sWhy Me?Premium
join:2002-12-20
Bradenton, FL | reply to viperpa33s
My brother worked at AT&T for 10 years. When SBC bought AT&T, AT&T said goodbye to him and many other people where he worked. So you can't say they won't layoff anyone cause they will if it's in there best interests.
Luckily my brother was able to get a job with Lucent which was just bought out recently. Hopefully he will be able to keep his job this time. |
