AT&T CFO Questions FCC Moves on Special Access Pricing, Says AT&T Will Be 5G Leader
AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens questioned the logic behind the FCC’s move to take on business data services (BDS) rules, during a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch investor conference Wednesday. The FCC’s “own study” based on 2013 data shows “somewhere…
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around 85 percent of the buildings, or the vast majority of the buildings in the United States, had more than two business data services providers where we operate,” Stephens said: “We think that number is about 85 percent and when you include cable and other alternative providers it's even higher. So the facts and specifically the facts developed by the FCC in 2013 don't support their premise” that rules are needed. Stephens said AT&T will be a leader on 5G.