King Kong of Telecom
King Kong of Telecom
Large-scale, large-budget projects.
Great industry name recognition.
Headed towards modernization.
Comprehensive benefits packages and significant company discounts for management (anyone not union).
Decades of process, infrastructure, and groupthink to wade through. Even modernization projects coated in decades-old cruft. The vast scale of organizations means you are subject to general edicts that don't often make sense for your project.
More autonomy at the edge.
Groups struggle to perform when subject to vertical commandments.
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