Instead of selling its rural lines, AT&T seeks to use...
Instead of selling its rural lines, AT&T seeks to use a new broadband technology to upgrade the lines, CEO Randall Stephenson said during the Sanford Bernstein investor conference Friday. He said the company is looking into the possibility of deploying…
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IP-DSLAM, a technology that extracts Internet traffic from a DSL line so it can join the provider’s network. Meanwhile, the U.S. wireless industry is likely to have more consolidations, with carriers buying up each other’s spectrum, he said. Though it would be hard for companies like AT&T to have another big acquisition, small wireless mergers and acquisitions are inevitable, he said. The industry is “really stressed” due to the lack of spectrum, he said. Federal regulators need to evaluate ways in which spectrum can be more easily transferred and put to the most efficient use, he said.