Tag: AT&T

October 22, 2020

On AT&T’s third quarter earnings call Thursday morning, AT&T CEO John Stankey reiterated his appetite for fiber, but said the telco is taking a measured approach. Years ago, AT&T mainly lit fiber up in central offices or select geographic areas, […]

September 30, 2020

Speaking at the Open Networking and Edge Summit (ONES) this week, AT&T Chief Technology Officer of Network Services Andre Fuetsch said that AT&T has deployed its Network Cloud 315 times to date. AT&T uses Airship software for its 5G Network […]

September 24, 2020

Akamai and AT&T have renewed their business relationship again. The two have been working together since 2012, bringing Akamai’s CDN and security technology to AT&T’s customers. The combination enables both companies to focus on their own strengths while meeting the […]

September 22, 2020

AT&T and Akamai announced on Tuesday that they have extended their business partnership through 2023. Akamai and AT&T started their partnership in 2012 and first extended it three years ago. Akamai’s global server footprint is located at the edge of […]

September 18, 2020

With the backdrop of the fires in California and other states, along with Hurricane Sally, AT&T is expanding the reach of its climate analysis tool. In order to gauge the impact of climate change on its network and operations up […]

September 10, 2020

MetTel announced on Thursday that it has hired former AT&T executive Robert Dapkiewicz to lead its federal program. Dapkiewicz is now general manager and senior vice president of MetTel’s federal program, and is based in Washington D.C. Dapkiewicz spent more […]

September 8, 2020

Global Wireless Solutions has crowned AT&T the “best network” in its third annual national testing, but all of the three national operators can find good news in GWS’ latest network scoring, which couples nationwide drive-testing with a consumer survey about […]

September 3, 2020

When T-Mobile officially turned off Sprint’s 2.5 GHz mid-band 5G network in July following the merger of the two carriers, T-Mobile was left with only 9 markets covered by 5G mid-band spectrum. However, the carrier just announced that its 2.5 […]

August 18, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has evolved into a fluid situation for businesses, but IBM and AT&T have a few ideas on how they can adapt going forward. AT&T and Big Blue will leverage the telco’s 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) […]

July 30, 2020

Due to its software-defined networking (SDN) efforts and a culture that embraces change, AT&T was able to turn on a dime during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. From March through May, AT&T grew 16,000 communications services and did it […]