And Earthlink Cuts 900 Jobs
As we had reported earlier, Earthlink (ENLK) announced a major restructuring. They will hold a conference call tomorrow morning. According to their news release, they are going to shut down many satellite offices and about 900 people will lose their jobs. As a result of the corporate restructuring, EarthLink expects to generate $25 – $35 million in cost savings through the remainder of 2007.
These changes get our cost structure in line, but there is much more to do,” said Rolla P. Huff, EarthLink President and CEO. “We expect to announce additional steps as we continue our work over the coming weeks and months.”
The worst isn’t over it seems for the company:
Given current trends in the Internet access industry, management expects industry-wide gross subscriber additions to decelerate in 2008. This will result in fewer gross subscriber additions for EarthLink as it will no longer add new subscribers that do not yield a positive lifetime value for our shareholders. Additionally, as subscriber growth slows, the company expects to realize fewer migrations from narrowband to broadband.
Odd that the shares are up. It does not make much sense
Are they planning to maintain their Muni biz? I’m sure Tropos would be keeping their fingers crossed
Someone said Don Berryman stills works there, but the following SEC filing seems to confirm that he does not: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070828/elnk8-k.html
After the Earthlink layoffs, the Muni-WiFi division will be under 30 people. Does that tell you their attitude?
Sounds like the wholesale access model isn’t working for them. Avoiding money-losing customers, fewer BB migrations, milking the longer-tenured customers (who pay higher monthly rates). Inspires me to accelerate the migration from mindspring.com to my own domain.
Didn’t even realize these blokes are still around? Sheesh, even NetZero is still kicking around. Will wonders never cease…
These guys are the living dead. The dialup ISP biz is shrinking and Earthlink blew any chance of re-inventing themselves with bad bets on reselling DSL and ill-advised muni wireless schemes. They should have concentrated on their hosting and content businesses, or just sold themselves off.
A Lot Happening At EarthLink
A press release issued today by EarthLink (ELNK) outlines a comprehensive corporate restructure plan that is taking way immediately. The plan includes cutting approximately 900 jobs and closing multiple offices nationwide, which is expected to give the…
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Another reason to move
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