{"id":7061438,"date":"2026-09-19T21:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/5g-technology\/telcos-remember-your-roots-telco-diary\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:25:48","slug":"telcos-remember-your-roots-telco-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7061438","title":{"rendered":"Telcos, remember your roots! (Telco Diary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>\t\t\t<i class=\"penci-post-countview-number-check\" style=\"display:none\">106<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em><em>From the newsletter (September 11; <a href=\"https:\/\/content.rcrwireless.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>sign-up<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/rcr-wireless-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>follow<\/strong><\/a> if you want it sooner):<\/em><\/em><\/em> <em>AT&amp;T CEO John Stankey offers a grounded (sounding) vision for the AI era for telcos: build better fiber and wireless networks, pursue DCI selectively, and make existing infrastructure work harder rather than just chase the \u2018supercycle\u2019 bandwagon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Happy Friday.\u00a0<\/em>Here\u2019s a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rcrwireless.com\/20260911\/carriers\/metro-fiber-kick-ass-5g-a-little-dci-and-d2d-att-sets-its-course?utm_campaign=RCR%20Newsletter&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_wdJEqNh8-I9joSr04DNpu8hxpJbcNtB3enjTS8kJGWE9D-EZZtcoqQrFPoWXvT6t3d4Jf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good overview-interview with AT&amp;T boss John Stankey<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0about the US carrier\u2019s five-year reinvention plan \u2013 which is interesting partly because of what Stankey\u00a0<em>isn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0saying. Remember your roots, he seems to say; even if you change your outlook. Which runs a little contrary, in tone at least, to all the \u2018supercycle\u2019 suckery of Verizon, Lumen, Nokia, Ciena and others. AT&amp;T will take DCI business where it makes sense, but its work, rather prosaic, is to build better networks to put AI to work for consumers and enterprises. Simple; also quite powerful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stankey sounds grounded in conversation with Goldman Sachs this week \u2013 pulled apart and written about in the\u00a0<em>RCR<\/em>\u00a0piece. He is pretty explicit that he doesn\u2019t want DCI to become \u201cthe mainstay\u201d of the business \u2013 even if AT&amp;T is back in the interconnect game, taking hyperscaler opportunities it finds them; but only as part of its essential customer proposition. Don\u2019t knock it, he seems to say; telco networks have been built over decades, and cannot just be replicated \u2013 in software in the cloud, in hardware in low-Earth orbit \u2013 overnight. Whatever Musk says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satellite comms are useful, of course, but very niche \u2013 serving the two percent, out in the sticks. AT&amp;T will address the D2D gap in cooperation with its old rivals, T-Mobile and Verizon, he says. And meanwhile, more or less, the discipline is just to keep going: to build lots of fiber, retire lots of copper, grab spectrum and upgrade and densify wireless, and then make those networks work harder, and as one, for enterprises and consumers. Which is the AI grid story, in other words \u2013 metro access for digital AI, plus whatever physical AI (vehicles, robots, drones) actually arrives.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>106 From the newsletter (September 11; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): AT&amp;T CEO John Stankey offers a grounded (sounding) vision for the AI era for telcos: build better fiber and wireless networks, pursue DCI selectively, and make existing infrastructure work harder rather than just chase the \u2018supercycle\u2019 bandwagon. 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