AT&T is moving its HQ from San Antonio to Dallas to get closer to better connected airports.
"Being
headquartered near leading air transportation facilities is critical to
global companies like AT&T as the airline industry continues to
consolidate and reduce hubs and flights amid higher fuel prices and
industry economic pressures."
Personally, I think they could have stayed in San Antonio and made themselves a showcase for telepresence.
Telepresence is very good business for AT&T - they are one of the biggest beneficiary of the Cisco telepresence success story . To run the QoS, 15mbps, low jitter pipe they can charge customers tens of
thousands a month. And the ROI is still pretty good when companies look at reduced travel cost and related executive fatigue.
Airlines are competition - should be AT&T's new thinking, Instead this move just shows them stuck to an older model of doing business. I am sure there are tax incentives - typical in such corporate moves. But that likely pales compared to the telepresence revenue opportunity.
