Carrier

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Carrier Salespeople Launch Competitor Sniping Attacks

Over the past couple of weeks, I've received a number of emails from CLEC and LEC carrier salespeople.   They all have a common theme - Their competitors are all doing horrible in this recession.  The meaning, although usually unstated, is that the email author works for the only telephone company in the industry that will survive today's dire straits. Here's an excerpt from one of the missives: Sprint Losing a lot of lines, especially...

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Brace for an AT&T Strike

Here’s the latest report from the Communications Workers Of America website regarding their union negotiations with AT&T: Today the subcommittees met in an attempt to resolve some of our differences around Article 2 and Work Rules/Appendices. In today’s formal session the Company rejected the Union proposal for time off. Our proposal included language that a minimum of 25% of a work group could be off at any given time. The Company passed two more retrogressive...

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