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Chairman and CEO of AT&T, the US telecom carrier, who has focused the company on fiber and wireless while retiring its legacy copper network.
AT&T agreed to sell its Mexican wireless unit to Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion in cash. Bloomberg puts AT&T's outlay on the unit at roughly $4.4 billion, so the sale recovers about 45% of it.
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T-Mobile cut "with Starlink" from its T-Satellite homepage in the week it, AT&T and Verizon launched a joint venture to pool satellite spectrum. The satellites behind the service are still SpaceX's, under a US exclusivity T-Mobile's CEO says lasts beyond this year.
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Jeremy Legg told WIRED that AT&T will carry fewer people in five years. An anonymous account puts the 2030 target at 85,000 employees, a figure AT&T calls inaccurate, and the first half of 2026 ran at half last year's cutting pace.
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AT&T Business will sell Amazon's Leo capacity through contracts its customers already hold, which settles who owns the ticket queue well before anyone can quote a price for the satellite layer itself.
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An MIT Sloan Management Review essay argues that loyalty is a conditional virtue which rewards silence and compliance, and that leaders in a tough job market would do better to measure commitment to a stated purpose.
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