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2 AT&T Inc.
Five years ago, smartphones were mainly
about email and messaging. Today, they possess
amazing computing power with sensors, video
cameras, music players, GPS capabilities and
much more — to serve as a hub and give
us instant access to the entire Internet and
unprecedented control over our lives.
Every industry is tapping into these capabilities
to create new business models, reinvent their
operations and improve productivity.
And we’re just beginning to realize the
potential of this mobile revolution to accelerate
commerce and drive human progress — bringing
step-change improvements to everything from
education to healthcare to energy.
AT&T has set the pace, delivering the mobile
Internet to more customers than any other
U.S. provider. Over the past five years:
We invested more than $115 billion into our
operations and into acquiring spectrum and
other assets that have enhanced our wireless
and wired networks. Since 2006, AT&T has
invested more capital into the U.S. economy
than any other public company.
Mobile data traffic on our network grew
more than 20,000 percent, more than doubling
in 2011 alone.
Mobile data speeds on our network increased
dramatically. The download speeds available
on our 4G LTE network today are more than
50X faster than our 2G network five years ago.
The number of smartphones, tablets and
other advanced mobile Internet devices on our
network soared to more than 43 million.
Total mobile data connections on our network
more than doubled to more than 74 million,
and mobile data revenues increased 5X, from
just over $4 billion to more than $22 billion.
Our total wireless subscribers grew nearly
70 percent to 103 million, and our wireless
revenues increased 68 percent.
These numbers say that your company is
leading a transformative wave of innovation
and growth. And what’s most gratifying is how
we built on that leadership position in 2011:
We were again No. 1 among U.S. providers in
mobile subscribers added — 7.7 million — and
tops in virtually every key mobile-data-growth
metric, including smartphone penetration and
connected devices such as tablets and eReaders.
We added more than 10 million smartphones
to our network, and we closed the year with
smartphones making up better than eight out
of 10 new contract device sales, well above
our industry-leading penetration rate.
We exceeded our targets in every major
mobile network initiative, enabling us to deliver
a premier mobile Internet experience with
best-in-class speeds.
We’re just beginning to realize the
potential of this mobile revolution
to accelerate commerce and drive
human progress …