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“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.

Legal filings from September 27 and spotted by The Register today show an email [ PDF] that AT&T EVP and GM of wireline transformation and global supply chain Susan A. Johnson apparently sent to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan pointing to "an impasse" over VMware. In an affidavit filed on September 27 [ PDF], Johnson stated that her email to Tan does not suggest that migration “would be easy, quick, or inexpensive” and that “none of those would be accurate statements." Johnson also claimed that AT&T started exploring options for getting off VMware in December but thought that it had time to make decisions, since it believed it could opt to renew support for its licenses until September 2026.

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