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Anyone catch this little tidbit in the earnings release.
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<blockquote data-quote="TUT" data-source="post: 954709" data-attributes="member: 29298"><p>Yep they are all the same.</p><p></p><p>Remember the AT&T-TMobile Merge Attempt:</p><p></p><p><em>You'd think after taking such a severe public beating for the failed deal (not to mention for their recent wireless price hikes and throttling), AT&T would lay low for a little while. Perhaps pause for a moment, rest leisurely on the giant bags of money created by their <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Doubles-Phone-Upgrade-Fee-118332" target="_blank">seemingly endless new fees, bad ideas and price hikes</a>, and contemplate why exactly they're a company that consistently sits in last place in nearly every major customer satisfaction study. Instead Jim Cicconi popped back up today to try and blame <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Here-Come-the-TMobile-Layoffs-118944" target="_blank">this week's T-Mobile call center layoffs</a> on those who opposed AT&T's awful idea. From the <a href="http://attpublicpolicy.com/wireless/att-statement-on-t-mobile-closing-seven-call-centers/" target="_blank">blog entry</a>:</em></p><p><em></em><em></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #800000">Normally, we’d not comment on something like this. But I feel this is an exception for one big reason– only a few months ago AT&T promised to preserve these very same call centers and jobs if our merger was approved. We also predicted that if the merger failed, T-Mobile would be forced into major layoffs....Rarely are a regulatory agency’s predictive judgments proven so wrong so fast. But for the government’s decision, centers now being closed would be staying open, workers now facing layoffs would have job guarantees, and communities facing turmoil would have security. <u>Only a few months later, the truth of who was right is sadly obvious</u>.</span></em></p><p></p><p><em>The only correct sentence in that quote is the last one. In reality, T-Mobile's financial hit came in large part because of a mass exodus of T-Mobile users (most of whom fled to Sprint) who didn't want to be AT&T customers. Sitting in gridlock for months as AT&T executives scurried to put lipstick on the pig of a deal didn't help matters. Meanwhile, the 1900 net lost jobs at T-Mobile are a drop in the bucket to the expected <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CWA-Still-Lying-About-ATT-TMobile-Deal-Job-Creation-116949" target="_blank">tens of thousands of jobs</a> that would have been eliminated as AT&T purged T-Mobile of redundant executive, support, and retail employees. AT&T's job creation claims were proven false. <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CWA-Still-Lying-About-ATT-TMobile-Deal-Job-Creation-116949" target="_blank">Repeatedly</a>.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Basically these corporations are now threatening they'll can employee asses if they don't get what they want. It's bribemail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TUT, post: 954709, member: 29298"] Yep they are all the same. Remember the AT&T-TMobile Merge Attempt: [I]You'd think after taking such a severe public beating for the failed deal (not to mention for their recent wireless price hikes and throttling), AT&T would lay low for a little while. Perhaps pause for a moment, rest leisurely on the giant bags of money created by their [URL="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Doubles-Phone-Upgrade-Fee-118332"]seemingly endless new fees, bad ideas and price hikes[/URL], and contemplate why exactly they're a company that consistently sits in last place in nearly every major customer satisfaction study. Instead Jim Cicconi popped back up today to try and blame [URL="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Here-Come-the-TMobile-Layoffs-118944"]this week's T-Mobile call center layoffs[/URL] on those who opposed AT&T's awful idea. From the [URL="http://attpublicpolicy.com/wireless/att-statement-on-t-mobile-closing-seven-call-centers/"]blog entry[/URL]: [/I][I] [COLOR=#800000]Normally, we’d not comment on something like this. But I feel this is an exception for one big reason– only a few months ago AT&T promised to preserve these very same call centers and jobs if our merger was approved. We also predicted that if the merger failed, T-Mobile would be forced into major layoffs....Rarely are a regulatory agency’s predictive judgments proven so wrong so fast. But for the government’s decision, centers now being closed would be staying open, workers now facing layoffs would have job guarantees, and communities facing turmoil would have security. [U]Only a few months later, the truth of who was right is sadly obvious[/U].[/COLOR][/I] [I]The only correct sentence in that quote is the last one. In reality, T-Mobile's financial hit came in large part because of a mass exodus of T-Mobile users (most of whom fled to Sprint) who didn't want to be AT&T customers. Sitting in gridlock for months as AT&T executives scurried to put lipstick on the pig of a deal didn't help matters. Meanwhile, the 1900 net lost jobs at T-Mobile are a drop in the bucket to the expected [URL="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CWA-Still-Lying-About-ATT-TMobile-Deal-Job-Creation-116949"]tens of thousands of jobs[/URL] that would have been eliminated as AT&T purged T-Mobile of redundant executive, support, and retail employees. AT&T's job creation claims were proven false. [URL="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CWA-Still-Lying-About-ATT-TMobile-Deal-Job-Creation-116949"]Repeatedly[/URL].[/I] Basically these corporations are now threatening they'll can employee asses if they don't get what they want. It's bribemail. [/QUOTE]
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