AT&T says customers are demanding fiber broadband

AT&T will increase its investment in fiber this year and focus on filling in areas where the company already has fiber to a neighborhood but hasn’t yet expanded to fiber to the home. It will also focus on buildings where it might have dedicated access to one customer but can fairly easily add new customers in the building at a lower cost. AT&T believes it benefits from fiber deployments in three ways:

• It provides backhaul for the company’s wireless services;
• It delivers fiber to the premises for residential customers; and
• It delivers fiber to enterprise customers.