Friday, March 23, 2012

AT&T Over T-Mobile Job Cuts

In the follow-up to Thursday’s announcement from T-Mobile USA that it would be laying off 1,900 people from its call centers, senior AT&T executive Jim Cicconi took the chance to return fire on the Federal Communications Commission. Pegging the layoffs on what could be viewed as the agency’s obstruction of last year’s proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, Cicconi alleged that the lost jobs could have been saved had the merger been approved.
Cicconi, the senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs at AT&T, took to the company’s blog to rebuke the FCC, writing, “So what’s the lesson here? For one thing, it’s a reminder of why ‘regulatory humility’ should be more than a slogan.”.............
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