bmn
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Premium,ExMod 2003-06
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Re: Typical AT&T mindset - Dinosaurs
said by Doctor Olds  :
Running headstrong into extinction.
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.
Before you know it, they'll be teaching kids in business "schools" how not to run a busines using the following examples:
1. Enron
2. Tyco
3. Global Crossing
4. ATT
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roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
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| 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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hedyd4u
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join:2003-12-16
Schenectady, NY
| You mention the big three Forbes super rankings for 2003 Verizon #8 and the first Telecom company SBC was #13 Bellsouth #37 AT&T #47 Sprint #83 quest #202. So much for the so called big three. MCI Worldcom or who ever they will be when they commit their next big fraud ?? |
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