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The Telecom Digest for Sun, 24 Apr 2022
Volume 41 : Issue 70 : "text" format

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Lumen Technologies, Inc. Expected to Post Quarterly Sales of $68 Billion
Re: AT&T, Comcast, Cox plot hybrid future for workforce, while GCI embraces remote
Re: AT&T, Comcast, Cox plot hybrid future for workforce, while GCI embraces remote

Message-ID: <20220423232425.664E972F@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 23:24:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Lumen Technologies, Inc. Expected to Post Quarterly Sales of .68 Billion Wall Street brokerages forecast that Lumen Technologies, Inc. will report $4.68 billion in sales for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Ten analysts have issued estimates for Lumen Technologies' earnings, with the lowest sales estimate coming in at $4.64 billion and the highest estimate coming in at $4.72 billion. Lumen Technologies posted sales of $5.03 billion in the same quarter last year, which suggests a negative year over year growth rate of 7%. The company is expected to issue its next quarterly earnings results after the market closes on Monday, January 1st. https://www.defenseworld.net/2022/04/23/lumen-technologies-inc-nyselumn-expected-to-post-quarterly-sales-of-4-68-billion.html -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <t3t83b$t5c$1@dont-email.me> Date: 21 Apr 2022 23:40:32 -0400 From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net> Subject: Re: AT&T, Comcast, Cox plot hybrid future for workforce, while GCI embraces remote On 4/19/2022 21:53, Bill Horne wrote: > Flexibility looks to be the name of the game as operators bring their > employees back to the office, with a majority - including big names > like AT&T and Comcast - telling Fierce they're opting for a hybrid > work model going forward. A smaller portion, however, said they plan > to remain mostly remote, citing benefits for both employees and the > company alike. Understandable for some office and call center jobs, but of course, this can't apply to field techs and central office positions. Unless much of that switch-work can be done remotely?
Message-ID: <20220422165440.GA2513@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:54:41 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: AT&T, Comcast, Cox plot hybrid future for workforce, while GCI embraces remote On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:40:32PM -0400, Michael Trew wrote: > On 4/19/2022 21:53, Bill Horne wrote: >> Flexibility looks to be the name of the game as operators bring their >> employees back to the office, with a majority - including big names >> like AT&T and Comcast - telling Fierce they're opting for a hybrid >> work model going forward. A smaller portion, however, said they plan >> to remain mostly remote, citing benefits for both employees and the >> company alike. > > Understandable for some office and call center jobs, but of course, this > can't apply to field techs and central office positions. Unless much of > that switch-work can be done remotely? In fact, it can apply to anyone who isn't protected by the laws of physics. No joke: the only thing keeping most Central Office Technicians employed is the transit time to and from the Clarke Belt: the wet dream of the oligarchs who run American industry is to eliminate the need for any kind of specialized expertise in those uppity technocrat members of the workforce they think of as serfs on their plantations. Actually, almost all of that switch work can be done remotely, and by workers in other time zones on the other side of the world. That's not being allowed as yet, because the best Congress that money can buy is deathly afraid of not having a constant stream of money flowing into the Social Security Trust Fund, a formerly inexhaustible cache of capital which they have treated as a candy store they could rob at any time they wanted every since it was created. The real reason that existing cables and drops are being abandoned in favor of fiber-optic media is that each pair of copper wire is slightly different from others, even in the same cable, even with the same bridge taps, even with identical splices and junction boxes. Fiber-optic pathways are being installed at breakneck speed because copper requires something that can't be bought: the loyalty and dedication of union men and women who can actually think about seeing their kids graduating from college - instead of task-trained menials applying computer-generated settings in private rooms located in rented space where unions can't picket. If they could, the overlords of our country would move all the telephone and computer infrastructure overseas, to third-world crapholes that are populated by uneducated and superstitious peasants whom are glad to have a handful of rice at the end of their day, and maybe even water that doesn't make them too sick to go back the next day and bow down to their betters all over again. -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

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