http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/ Engadget Comments for AT&T moves HQ to Dallas from San Antonio http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/San Antonio has truck nutz too. ]]>Jun 27th 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
All related to trucks, although I had to throw in an NBA reference too, right?]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/The Pistons are from Detroit.]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
There is another airport in Dallas BTW. Southwest owns Love Field, which is dirt cheap to fly into/out of if you are going to other TX destinations or nearby states. I used to get $33 one way fairs from Austin a few years back...]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 28th 2008 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jul 3rd 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
This is a TELECOMMUNICATIONS company! With all that bandwidth, technology and money bins full of cash, I would expect them to be among the best-equipped to provide for "face-to-face" meetings via teleconferencing.]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
This is a TELECOMMUNICATIONS company! With all that bandwidth, technology and money bins full of cash, I would expect them to be among the best-equipped to provide for "face-to-face" meetings via teleconferencing.]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
However, ATT just doesn't like the Riverwalk in San Antonio. If you listen to their latest commercials backwards you can hear the message very clearly. They prefer traffic jams, toll roads & all the crappiest restaurant chains.]]>Jun 28th 2008 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jul 6th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
This is a TELECOMMUNICATIONS company! With all that bandwidth, technology and money bins full of cash, I would expect them to be among the best-equipped to provide for "face-to-face" meetings via teleconferencing.]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/]]>Jun 28th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
USAirways used to fly direct to san antonio, but now its only dallas.

Schlitterbahn + Rudy's + Henry's Puffy Tacos FTW]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 28th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
a long day at fedex can confuse words easily :)]]>Jun 28th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
Before it was "One world, one card."; which I believe fits the new Real ID cards Americans will soon have, and now it's "Connecting people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else."

They seem to be wanting to get people to believe that having one card or phone with tracking devices places in them to see where you are and what you look at on the device (to do everything) is best for you because it is easy to control everything. What people don't see is if everything they have is controlled by one card or chip implanted in their body in the future, these things can be destroyed or turned off when wanted by governments and you will have no money, no identity, and no chance at anything. You will then be a slave, and can not talk back to anyone 'higher' than you.

If people don't believe or understand what I and talking about then YOU NEED to WAKE UP and EDUCATE yourself.

For starts, watch the movie ZEITGEIST!
zeitgeistmovie com

The take a look at speeches the Kennedy brothers gave, then interviews from people who seen the shootings themselves. Watch the film of him being shot and notice where the bullet enters from the front and opens his skull in the back side. Notice the CIA people at Kennedy's brothers killing.

"Knowledge is power"
"The truth shall set you free"
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Educate yourself, the Internet is a great place to start.]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/

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Why the move to San Antonio? Well, when they got a new CEO he came to town and applied to join an upscale country club. They interviewed, checked him out, and decided they didn't want to associate with him. He was so mad about being rejected by St. Louis business leaders he moved the whole company, leaving two giant office buildings and a massive data center behind. They have never been fully utilized since, and does not appear they sold them. This was reported widely in the newspapers, but no one ever held him accountable.

You now wonder what the reason for another move might be? You can make a pretty good bet that it is some petty self-serving thing. God help the sharelholders in the face of this arrogant self importance. Even more, God help us (their customers) as we pay over and over for all this.

Don't look for any spine from state regulatory agencies. They just rubber stamp any and all rate increase requests. Checking out their record is another whole story of corruption or incompetence (don't bet it isn't some of both).]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
This is actually a good move for AT&T, getting out of that little town and into a real city.]]>Jun 28th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Sep 8th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
I don't get your complaint about regulators. Are you actually suggesting it should be illegal for a company to choose where to locate their headquarters?]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
there's one more reason not mentioned.... yet. jerryworld opens next football season. anyone wanna bet who wins the naming rights for that stadium?

metroplex, FTW.]]>Jun 27th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 27th 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
Relocation costing hundreds of millions (ultimately) simply because the CEO was unhappy about being socially rejected constitutes gross malfeasance. Too bad their Directors and the crony system wouldn't stop this dereliction of duty.

Since nothing happened, now they feel free to do it again and become even more arrogant.]]>Jun 27th 2008 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 28th 2008 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
The real reason they're moving headquarters may have as much to do with the couple hundred million they're going to pay these guys for naming rights than the location of the airport.

(and don't think Jerry Jones can't demand that a large corporation move it's headquarters to Dallas in exchange for naming rights.)]]>Jun 28th 2008 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
I meant these guys: http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/]]>Jun 28th 2008 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 29th 2008 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/San Antonio has over 2 million people and is one of the fastest growing metros. San Antonio does have 5 other F-500, Valero Energy, now the largest Oil Co. in America and Clear Channel, the largest Advertisng co. in the U.S. San Antonio is a top covention city and attracts over 26 million visitors. Austin is the city that is overrated. There is nothing there besdies 6th street and UT. Quite boring. Dallas and San Antonio are full fledge big cities, with large freeway systems, better shopping, entertainment. Austin has no Zoo, no theme parks, no big time sports, no Arts districts. San Antonio has two major Arts Districts, better musuems, a new Smithsonian as well. San Antonio also has the 6th largest downtown resident population in the USA with about 25,000 residents according to the U.S. Census. Dallas and Houston have about 5,000. Austin less has about 6,000. Also, believe it or not San Antonio has more college students than Austin. I pick San Antonio over Austin any day. Austin will never be in the same league as these two cities. I use to live in San Antonio five years ago. The Alamo City will recover from losing AT&T.]]>Jun 28th 2008 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
I've lived in SA for 20+ years and even I didn't know half of the stuff you say we have, thanks for the heads-up!]]>Jun 28th 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 28th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/
Jeff McCord]]>Jul 5th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 28th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/good for our economy, and improve the jobs quality in the area. But
the DFW area need to reconsider their resources and architecture,
there's too many people and the commute is getting longer and longer
every month. ]]>Jun 28th 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 28th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/Jun 28th 2008 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/atandt-moves-hq-to-dallas-from-san-antonio/]]>Jun 28th 2008 1:02PM