AT&T expecting "record numbers" in Q3

By on Sep 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM
General September 21, 2010

Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s CEO, recently spoke at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XIX Conference and said, ” We’re on pace to set a record for integrated devices.” That’s pretty amazing considering the fierce competition Verizon Wireless and Sprint have been giving each other. Stephenson went on to detail that the iPhone 4, the BlackBerry Torch, and the Samsung Captivate have been “solid drivers for the company.” AT&T’s tiered data strategy also seems to be paying off, at least in the short-term, by moving a lot of people “into the data market who had not been” before. 53% of AT&T’s postpaid subscribers use a smartphone, there are over 7 million connected devices on the network, and even around half a million iPads.

Switching gears to LTE, AT&T’s chief executive offer reiterated a lot of what the CEO of AT&T Operations said last week: AT&T will be launching LTE service for the general public by mid-2011 and will cover over 70 million subscribers by the end of the same year. This will put AT&T in a head to head battle with Verizon Wireless who intends to have over 100 million subscribers covered with LTE by the end of this year.

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  • S dot

    FYI- Verizon is not at&t’s competition anymore….

    • jay

      umm who cares….

  • JM

    They wouldn’t be trying to announce good news to boost their stock price, right?

  • ggore

    Meanwhile, here, in a town of 10,000 people just 30 miles from Oklahoma City, we do not have EDGE service from AT&T, let alone, 3G, or LTE, and probably never will, despite the fact that AT&T has held onto a license to cover this area since 1989!

  • Tim-n-AR

    The reason att drops so many calls, is due to them using GSM technology. Verizon and att have 90+ million customers, yet att is the big call-dropper. It’s simple. GSM only holds 6 simultaneous calls per channel, whereas CDMA holds 50. So, with roughly the same amount of users, the less efficient one will drop the most calls. Maybe LTE will help with that. I am glad verizon is keeping CDMA for voice calls, as is Sprint.

  • Scott H

    Wait a minute?? Head to head competition with Big Red??? C’mon, really???? (yes, your statement demands all the question marks)
    VZW states it is on target to cover 100m pops by year end 2010. AT&T promise 70m pops by year end 2011. Verizon will be ‘leaps and bounds’ ahead of AT&T by that time. Before they even begin VZW will be well outpacing them, who knows how many will be even when AT&T launches. How does that constitute head to head?? <- last usage…

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