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AT&T Unity: A Bandaid Solution to Save Wireline?
Filed in archive Mobile by jeff goldman on January 20, 2007
AT&T Unity: A Bandaid Solution to Save Wireline?

Reuters' Sinead Carew reports that AT&T is introducing a new service called AT&T Unity that will "let subscribers who pay at least $110 a month make unlimited calls between their mobile and home phones."


Carew says the service will be offered as a "perk" for subscribers who pay for both a $50-a-month unlimited local and long distance wireline plan and a $60 a month unlimited wireless plan. According to AT&T, about half of its 58.7 million wireless customers already use its wireline services, so it's a logical next step to reduce churn.


Calling it "a desperate cry to save wireline," Om Malik writes, "AT&T's Unity plan is a bandaid solution that can't really stop the bleeding. Sure it will help the company retain (or even attract) some customers to its rapidly declining wireline business, where it still makes a lot of money, and extract more out of its increasingly redundant copper lines. How long can this game really continue? That is the big question."


AT&T's press release is here.




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