By Diana Goovaerts, CED, July 26. 2017
AT&T is looking to push well beyond its fiber buildout commitment with the Federal Communications Commission to hit 14 million fiber to the premises customers by
2019, CFO John Stephens said in a Tuesday earnings call.
As one of the conditions of its DirecTV acquisition, AT&T struck a deal with the FCC to expand its fiber footprint to 12.5 million locations. Most recently, AT&T brought its fiber broadband services to Tulsa, following a rollout in the San Francisco area. All told AT&T expects to add two million locations to its fiber network this year. But looking down the line to that 2019 goal, Stephens reports the operator is on track to handily surpass the 12.5 million figure by some 1.5 million locations.
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