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AT&T Annual Report 2008
Business
AT&T continues to set the standard for serving the complex connectivity
needs of businesses worldwide. We help them stay connected with
their employees and customers through a broad array of IP-based
networking solutions that allow them to extend their reach, reduce
costs and seize competitive advantage.
AT&T is the industry leader, serving millions of businesses, including all of
the Fortune 1000, and operating on six continents. And we built on this
No. 1 position last year — winning global contracts with such companies
as Shell, Starbucks, Boeing, Smiths and Best Buy. We also captured
significant new regional business, including with the state governments
of Tennessee and Georgia. And we turned around our wholesale business
with big wins made possible by our strategic alliance with IBM.
AT&T was recognized as a leader in serving businesses of all sizes
by industry analyst firms, including IDC and Compass Intelligence.
Local search
YELLOWPAGES.COM — which connects people with local businesses
through wireless devices, PCs and AT&T U-verse TV — continues to
grow rapidly, with more than 1.8 billion local searches across the
YELLOWPAGES.COM network in 2008. AT&T also continues to lead
in print local search with AT&T Real Yellow Pages.
IP network bandwidth
To stay ahead of customer demand for mobility and speed, we
expanded our fastest-in-the-U.S. 3G wireless network to nearly
350 major metropolitan areas and strengthened our No. 1 position in
mobile data. We also extended our industry-leading Wi-Fi hotspot footprint
to nearly 20,000 U.S. hotspots and a total of more than 80,000 worldwide.
We more than doubled the living units passed by our AT&T U-verse
network to nearly 17 million.
We continued to invest in fixed-line broadband, launching a new
18-megabit-per-second broadband service in several U.S. markets
where we’ve deployed our U-verse network.
To support our customers’ growing desire to access data, software
applications and video at higher speeds, we completed the world’s largest
deployment of 40-gigabit-per-second transport — the fastest available
Internet backbone technology — across our entire U.S. network.
Across the board, we have significantly improved our ability to deliver
more for customers. In the process, AT&T has become a much different
company than we were just two years ago. Today, nearly two-thirds of
our revenues come from wireless and data — including IP, broadband
and video — areas where we expect robust growth in the years ahead.
AT&T’s long-term
future remains
very bright.
The underlying
global demand
for connectivity
continues to
grow — and no
company is better
positioned to
meet it than AT&T.
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