It’s unfortunate AT&T blamed T-Mobile’s call center layoffs on the...
It’s unfortunate AT&T blamed T-Mobile’s call center layoffs on the government’s blocking of the first company’s purchase of the second (CD March 26 p7), Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn said late Friday. T-Mobile started losing customers and distributors when the…
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takeover attempt started, she said. The company’s ads and marketing were “frozen” as the deal approval effort dragged on, and customers left, she said. “Now they face getting those customers back and investing in their network.” Sohn claimed that had AT&T closed the deal, perhaps ten times as many jobs would have been lost as the 1,900 job cuts disclosed last week by T-Mobile, citing AT&T’s history of layoffs following transactions.