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AT&T's (T) Management Presents at Oppenheimer 20th Annual Technology, Internet and Communications Conference (Transcript)

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4096402-ts-t-management-presents-oppenheimer-20th-annual-technology-internet-communications?part=single

Timothy Horan

And maybe while we are on the subject, your thoughts on 5G at this point. Obviously, there is a bunch of trials going on. Do you see it as more of a fixed line replacement, do you see it as a way to augment your fixed line, do you see it maybe as more of a mobile product and maybe just a timing in where we are at?

John Stephens

First of all we are agonistics to necessarily the type of network, because we have network capabilities of all sorts. We have the legacy landlines, we have the historic [indiscernible] assets, we have a lot of fiber not only form what we have put in what the LLS the former AT&T, the national network business, we have a tremendous wireless build-out and we have satellite delivery of video.

So for us, it’s about providing customer solutions that work best. When you think about 5G it’s just another opportunity to provide really high quality solutions. Whether you talk about it as millimeter wave, which we had test in Austin with some millimeter wave that we had from the SEC, we are getting 1-Gig speed deliver to a business in that test market.

If you think about 5G is upgrading your LTE network with carrier aggregation, MIMO, 256 Qam all of those types of things. San Francisco we ran a test where we are in 750 Megs on our most recent LTE test, it was an unloaded network. But if you can get 10% or 20% of that on a loaded network, that’s still tremendous wireless speeds in an urban area with high traffic levels. We have seen what we have done in upgraded our networks in Austin, now Indianapolis by the end of your 20 cities across. You can see that we are adding significant speed and capabilities with those new technologies.

The 5G standards are expected to be out in 2018 and expected to be widespread in the 2020 timeframe. We are working on that and testing that now. That was a reason for the FiberTower, it’s one of the reasons for our FiberTower millimeter wave purchase. So I view it as a part of an overall solution, because the customer, center, content, entertainment, communication capabilities products and services with this vast array of network assets that allows us to do it more effectively efficiently than anybody else.