AT&T’s newly expanded capex budget will focus on enhancing its fiber network to serve its ongoing FTTH and emerging 5G network deployments—two of the telco’s largest network initiatives for 2018.
John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications, told investors at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference that fiber will be a big part of the capex equation in 2018.
“If you look at where we are, we’re going to make sure we have enough capacity to keep all the networks we have running and in good shape,” Donovan said. “Once we take care of capacity, we focus on footprint.”
