According to Wireless Estimator’s hiring trend data, infrastructure hiring has bounced back to ambitious and overwhelming 2013 LTE buildout levels when Verizon was racing away with its LTE expansion and AT&T was ramping up for its own 4G LTE Roll-out that would require spending $14 billion on network upgrades through 2016.
“But that came to a screeching halt in May of 2014 when AT&T agreed to buy DirecTV for about $48 billion in a mammoth deal that saw the carrier cancel many of their purchase orders as they reassessed their finances,” said Wireless Estimator analyst and marketing consultant Alyssa Runner.
