The World According to ATT

摘要

During the past decade, at t has been jettisoning divisions faster than a heavyweight fighter sheds pounds trying to get back in shape for a shot at the title: NCR in '94; Bell Labs in '96; ATT Cable, ATT Wireless in '01; Excite@Home, Small Business Hosting accounts in '02. Earlier this year, it announced plans to stop pursuing residential and long-distance voice customers altogether. I met with Hossein Eslambolchi - CIO, CTO, and president of global networking technology ser- vices at ATT - over a light dinner to discuss ATT's IT strategy for the next decade. In a word, that strategy comes down to services. Not voice services, or even VoIP, but SoIP (services over IP). Eslambolchi told me emphatically, just short of pointing his fork at me, that ATT is no longer a voice company. It is a data company.