AT&T Wireless Drops Fixed Wireless

n8twj writes: "According to this story at Internetnews.com, AT&T has decided to graciously bow out of the Fixed Wireless arena. This is a move that strands 47,000 of its customers, displaces its entire fixed wireless division staff and costs the company more than $1 billion." Iridium, Ricochet, and Sprint's ION are now gone or all-but-gone, too -- it's been a bad year for unconventional Internet service customers.

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At least the employees will be taken care of

[Rogerborg]

• Although some of its 1,000 employees will get laid off as a result of the shutdown, DiGioia expects most will find employment somewhere else with AT&T Wireless. Those that don't, he said, will get help finding a job externally

Given the current telecomms climate, I expect that they'll be given the industry standard mentoring and advisement program:

"The door's over there. Don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out."