AT&T Uverse 2007 Annual Report Download - page 6

Over these same three years, we’ve delivered the industry’s largest improvement
in customer loyalty and led the industry in bringing innovative smartphones to
market, including collaborating with Apple on the highly successful, exclusive
U.S. launch of their iPhone. In that time, we’ve also added more wireless
subscribers than any other U.S. provider. In the process, we have positioned
our company as the leader in defining the next generation of wireless products
and services.
SECOND, we have energized and expanded the industry’s premier
enterprise business. Just over two years ago, our acquisition of the former
AT&T Corp. gave us a world-class set of assets to serve large U.S. and multinational
companies. In the second half of 2007, we saw enterprise service revenues
return to growth a year ahead of plan, and we anticipate growth in overall
enterprise revenues in 2008.
We’ve invested in new capabilities and have executed well, and business customers
have responded enthusiastically to the total range of innovative services we
deliver with world-class reliability. And thanks to customer demand for more
mobile communications, more Internet-based applications and expansive global
connectivity, we have additional growth opportunities in 2008 and beyond.
THIRD, we have greatly expanded broadband access to the Internet.
Broadband is becoming the primary connection for linking consumers and
businesses to entertainment and information. We lead the industry with more than
14 million broadband subscribers, and through the broadest U.S. Wi-Fi footprint,
we’re making high speed Internet access mobile. And by the end of 2008, our Wi-Fi
footprint will include more than 7,000 Starbucks locations in the U.S.
Broadband usage is ramping. Customers are demanding higher speeds for
such bandwidth-hungry applications as video. And there’s substantial growth
potential ahead as we make broadband access increasingly seamless across
wired and mobile devices.
LAST, we are well under way with a major network transformation to
build a seamless all-Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure as the foundation
for future growth. In a connectivity-driven world, IP is the future. It creates a
platform for wired and wireless services that truly work together for our customers.
AT&T is building the fastest Internet backbone in the U.S., and we are the only major
U.S. communications company deploying a pure, 100 percent IP video network. Our
next-generation AT&T U-verseSM service—which delivers interactive TV, broadband
and voice—ramped throughout 2007 to more than 231,000 TV customers. We
expect to end 2008 with more than 1 million U-verse TV customers and to expand
our network deployment to 30 million customer locations by the end of 2010.
These major transformations form the foundation of AT&T’s future as an integrated
wireless, wired, voice, data and video company that connects our customers to
their world, everywhere they live and work. And we’ll do that better than
anyone else. That’s because at every level—local, national, global—we’ve shaped
ourselves around meeting our customers’ total needs. We’ve built a company
around our customers. That’s the new AT&T.
EARNINGS PER SHARE
AT&T has delivered 11 consecutive
quarters of year-over-year
double-digit growth in adjusted EPS.
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AT&T WIRELESS SUBSCRIBERS
IN SERVICE
Wireless subscribers
have increased
by nearly 43 percent
since 2004.
AT&T BROADBAND
SUBSCRIBERS IN SERVICE
AT&T is the No. 1 U.S.
broadband provider.