Verizon, Avaya, Job Cuts Crack November's Top 12 Stories

Some of the biggest names of the channel turned in some top-story-worthy performances in November.

Channel Partners’ trips to company events paid off. AT&T hosted a new combined meetup for members of its Alliance Channel and Partner Exchange channel programs, while RingCentral held its annual event in San Francisco.

But in a dichotomy that rivals the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities, these good times were balanced by some bad times. CA Technologies laid off hundreds of workers following its acquisition by Broadcom, and Symantec got in some hot water thanks to a shareholder’s lawsuit.

Also making our top 12: the big push toward 5G – including a “cage match” at a PlanetOne event – and restructuring at Verizon that could have a trickle-down channel impact.

Those are just a few of our most-read stories from October, determined by online traffic and results from our weekly newsletter (sign up for that here).

Which story was No. 1? Click through our gallery below to find out!

Missed the previous month’s top stories? Click here to see our most-read posts in October.

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