 davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
 ·Comporium
| reply to Steimes
Re: Short sighted AT&T's problem is it's not just in 1 system. It's in multiple places... and in a couple that aren't just big relational databases. Their mobile platform is a hodge podge of stuff inherited from: AT&T Wireless Services, Ameritech Mobile Communications, BellSouth Mobility, Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, BellSouth Mobility DCS, BellSouth Wireless Data, Pacific Bell Wireless, Pacific Bell Wireless Northwest, SBC Wireless, SNET Mobility, and Southwestern Bell Wireless.
Remember most of those markets were TDMA conversions, so they weren't pure GSM builds. That leaves some true legacy systems in play on the back-end.
They do a decent job of making it look like 1 big system to the end customer but on the back end there are a bunch of moving pieces.
It's not insurmmountable... but w/ AT&T also being tied w/ all the SBC merger stuff, the integration guys already have their hands full. And much of the heavy lifting is outsourced. The brain trust who could have done it stateside has been steadily gutted.
We all know from Uverse that AT&T/SBC is a tightwad. In this case their tightwadism and lack of available onshore human resources directly affected a product roll-out and end-users.
}Davoice |
