AT&T, VMware and Broadcom
Broadcom tried to hit AT&T with a 1,050% price increase for VMware products
AT&T is resorting to legal action in an effort to compel Broadcom to comply with the service agreement it signed for using VMware products. The technology
“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
AT&T's contract with VMware may be one of the firm's bigger accounts. A 1,034 percent price hike would be another level, however, even for a company the size of AT&T. Per Johnson's email, AT&T and Broadcom have had a "strategic relationship" for over a decade.
AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder.
AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside
Elsewhere in the filing, Broadcom claims "AT&T has admitted in writing to VMware that it can 'migrate away' from VMware software and doing so will have 'a very quick payback and strong IRR [internal rate of return]'."
Broadcom wanted to increase AT&T’s VMware prices by 1,050 per cent
Making life harder for all its customers AT&T claimed Broadcom offered to jack up its prices by 1,050 per cent and maybe influencing other vendors to make a migration harder. The colossal price hike claim was mentioned in email evidence in AT&T’s case,
AT&T claims it faced a tenfold VMware price hike under Broadcom
The telecommunications company projected it would cost up to $50 million to migrate off VMware, EVP and GM Susan Johnson said in an email to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.
VMware called out after apparently offering this major customer a huge price rise
AT&T has accused VMware of proposing a staggering 1,050% price increase under its new Broadcom ownership, leading to a legal dispute between the two companies. The claim was shared in a legal document filed by AT&T,
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