4 ms·
Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else
- dankohn1 11y agoThis article was ridiculous. At&T has no chance in the cloud business. Yes Google Fiber is a serious competitor, but it will be many years before Google reaches scale. The history of this sort of retraining initiatives is abysmally bad.
- doctorshady 11y agoI think they're using cloud as a blanket term here; if it involves IP transport of some sort, it's apparently part of the cloud. To me (and I say this as a fairly opinionated person on the topic; a lot of the current day equipment they run is pretty cool, and runs perfectly well with fiber facilities), it sounds like Randall trying really, really hard to try and make his vision work - perhaps not entirely with a good grip on how to make it happen. Instead of trying to bring phone company technology up with internet pricing, they're trying to bring in internet technology with phone company pricing. In the end, they're really trying to compete with the tech industry by becoming something they're not.
- Dwolb 11y agoI was curious what viewpoints more technically-inclined perspectives might provide. On initial reading, it felt like the CEO was convinced of the initiative by a consulting group (the major hint was the estimate on allowable attrition rates of 30%) and didn't feel very feasible (who has done this successfully before with 250,000 employees?). The piece of the article I did like was how it inspired some of the employees to learn more - the initiative gives them an outlet to be challenged academically in a way they might not get with their day-to-day jobs.