Trade Law Daily is a service of Warren Communications News.

AT&T to Have 50% More Network Capacity by End of 2019, Says CEO

AT&T will have a 50 percent increase in the capacity of its wireless network in 2019, driven by the FirstNet build, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Tuesday at a UBS conference. FirstNet is already available in one one-third of the…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.

U.S., he said. “I have really, really high expectations in terms of what [FirstNet] does for our 5G deployment, what it does for network quality and capacity over the next few months and then just a new business market for us.” Stephenson also expressed excitement over AT&T’s pending deployment of 5G. “I'm probably about as energized about 5G as any technology innovation that we've ever deployed,” he said.