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AT&T may have about the best selection of choice handsets (smart or otherwise) available in the States right now, and continued iPhone exclusivity has definitely brought a windfall of new subscribers to its wireless division, but Ma Bell wasn't built on cell towers alone. There's still an extensive landline division to support, and it seems the company is leveraging the current
economic doldrums to make it a little less so, joining the
layoff crowd for the
second time this year by shedding a further 12,000 workers (about 4 percent of its workforce), most said to be coming from passé, non-wireless sectors. So, happy holidays, folks -- hope those severance packages get you through the winter.
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CellPhonesMarket.com; thanks, SK]
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AT&T cutting 12,000 jobs due to "economic pressures" originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under holidays folks, severance packages, cell towers, economic pressures, happy holidays, divi, doldrums, windfall, exclusivity, workforce, amp, sectors, nbsp, crowd, subscribers, jobs |
AT&T may have about the best selection of choice handsets (smart or otherwise) available in the States right now, and continued iPhone exclusivity has definitely brought a windfall of new subscribers to its wireless division, but Ma Bell wasn't built on cell towers alone. There's still an extensive landline division to support, and it seems the company is leveraging the current
economic doldrums to make it a little less so, joining the
layoff crowd for the
second time this year by shedding a further 12,000 workers (about 4 percent of its workforce), most said to be coming from passé, non-wireless sectors. So, happy holidays, folks -- hope those severance packages get you through the winter.
[Via
CellPhonesMarket.com; thanks, SK]
Filed under: Cellphones
AT&T cutting 12,000 jobs due to "economic pressures" originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under xbox 360, digg, exclusivity, playstation 3, xbox, playstation |
Xbox 360 exclusivity? What Xbox 360 exclusivity?
Tagi: xbox 360, digg, exclusivity, playstation 3, xbox, playstation
Posted by on under google logo, veriz, phes, impending loss, heavy hand, google, bearing fruit, mths, techcrunch, exclusivity, geeky, launch, 18 nov, time frame, partnerships, amp, tc, nbsp, motorola, coup |
We've been hearing talk of thoroughly Google-branded phones since before Android was announced -- and if you want to get really technical about it, you could argue that it's already happened twice in the form of the
Dev Phone 1 and the
Ion. Thing is, those are strictly developer-oriented one-offs based on existing models, and
TechCrunch is reporting in a rather authoritative tone today that Google's just about to launch a consumer phone all its own designed to in-house, no-compromise specifications with signs suggesting that either Samsung or LG would be responsible for OEM duties. Allegedly, the device was supposed to be at retail in time for the holidays but ended up getting pushed back into early 2010, at which point we can expect a big marketing push -- but the question is, why? Google had a heavy hand in the design and development of the chunky, geeky HTC
Dream, so we already know they're probably better off leaving the details of the industrial design to the guys who've been doing this for a while -- and with strong new partnerships with Verizon and Motorola just now bearing fruit, it's safe to say that Big Red wouldn't be a launch partner. Our most interesting theory here is that AT&T -- which has gone totally radio-silent for all things Android in the past six months -- is responding to the probable impending loss of its iPhone exclusivity by scoring a coup on a gorgeous, aspirational device with the Google logo all over it. Given the time frame that TC's suggesting, it sounds like we wouldn't have to wait long to find out what's what.
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Google-branded phone coming early next year? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under iphe, iphone, exclusivity, 3g, insider |
Inside of AT&T, we are hearing that having the iPhone is hurting AT&T's image because they are the only company to carry it. We don't remember hearing about AT&T's "horrible network" before the iPhone--do you? The iPhone itself doesn't handle the switch from 3G to EDGE very well, so more calls are dropped when network congestion occurs.
Tagi: iphe, iphone, exclusivity, 3g, insider
