[1st-mile-nm] AT&T Rural Update

[Richard Lowenberg]

 There have and will be many responses to statements made by AT&T’s 
 Randall L. Stephenson, at a late Jan. Investors’ Conference call.

 “We’ve all been trying to find 
a broadband solution that was
 
 economically viable to get out 
to rural America, and we’re 
not finding 
 one to be quite 
candid.   The best opportunity we have is LTE.   We are 
 obviously excited about the opportunity to use LTE to get to rural 
 America with the T-Mobile 
transaction.  That having been set aside, now 
 we’re looking 
at rural America and asking,
what’s the broadband 
 solution?   We don’t have one right now.”

 Stephenson also said that AT&T’s U-verse fiber to the neighborhood 
 service is now effectively over, and will not be extended to additional 
 areas.

 For one response, see Christopher Mitchell’s posting:
 www.muninetworks.org/content/pay-attention-man-behind-curtain-listen-atts-ceo-not-lobbyists





-- 
 Richard Lowenberg
 1st-Mile Institute
 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
 505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200
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 rl at 1st-mile.com