Daily Report: AT&T Moves Fast to Move Data, Fast [telecom]

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No other company owns such a jumble of satellites, wires, cables and wireless towers. Maybe software can unify it all in a profitable offering.

By Quentin Hardy

AT&T's plan to deliver very-high-speed broadband goes like this: Work on a bunch of different technologies at once, for different kinds of customers, without waiting for international regulators or industrial bodies to do their work. Oh, and this has to be a cheaper way to do business.

"It's a multidimensional effort, not for the faint of heart," said John Donovan, the company's chief strategy officer and head of technology and operations. "We're thinking of the evolution of all of our platforms, together."