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Re: Typical AT&T mindset - Dinosaurs
said by bmn  :
I was thinking the same thing... ATT is systematically digging their own grave by taking on failed venture after failed venture while cutting its real revenue sources.
AT&T's problem isn't so much failed forays into new business (although I do agree AT&T has been rather schizophrenic lately with getting into and out of cable -- which could have saved them in the residential space, spinning off AT&T Wireless, etc.) nearly as much as corporate bloat. That bloat has resulted in AT&T being very uncompetitive on price thus losing residential and small business customers to the innumerable Qwest/Global Crossing/WilTel resellers, VoIP, wireless, and the Bell teens' LD plans (at least one of which partly resells AT&T) left and right; about all AT&T has left are somewhat captive customers -- large corporate customers that have needs that only the Big Three carriers (AT&T, MCI, and Sprint) can possibly handle, and its share of the FTS2000 Federal telecom contracts.
I think that AT&T may have been better served by licensing the brand name for consumer services to someone else (like AT&T did with telephone equipment -- "AT&T" phones are actually Vtech phones nowadays) instead of just getting out of the market entirely except for CallVantage (which is IMO a joke.)
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