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AT&T Inc.
3
Randall Stephenson
Chairman, Chief Executive
Officer and President
TO OUR INVESTORS
The foundation for all of this is smart, seamless
high speed broadband connectivity — delivered
by meshed wireless and wired networks. This is
the heart of what our company provides.
So, what’s required to accelerate this
new world?
Capital investment
To build the pervasive, smart, high-capacity
networks that our customers expect takes
large-scale capital commitments. So, our entire
industry and its surrounding ecosystem of
suppliers and innovators need tax policies and
regulatory approaches that create an attractive
environment for investment.
Companies such as ours have a responsibility as
well — to take the initiative and step up to long-term
financial commitments. That’s exactly what we’re
doing with Project VIP:
We plan to expand our 4G LTE high speed, wireless
data network to cover 300 million people by the end
of 2014, 50 million more than our original plan.
To deliver an even better experience, we
plan to make this network more dense through
extensive use of innovative small cells in addition
to traditional wireless towers.
We plan to expand our U-verse customer reach
by approximately a third and drive IP broadband