Jul 26, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
AT&T CEO John Stankey views President Donald Trump’s recently passed budget as a financial windfall for the telecommunications space and teased an appetite for more fiber to feed growing market opportunities around its wired and wireless broadband services.
“I've not seen the situation where those tailwinds were all aligned as strongly as they are anytime in my career as they are right now. And I’m surprised I don’t see more commentary on that,” Stankey said. “I would even say the alignment of those policy things that are going on right now in the direction that's occurring, the lack of friction in getting some changes done is even more significant than when the Telecom Act of [1996] was passed.”
“However, we are increasingly able to offer Internet Air today in areas where we intend to offer fiber in the future,” Desroches said. “This positions us to leverage Internet Air to create a funnel of broadband customers that we can migrate to fiber over time as we expand fiber to serve areas where these customers live. Based on the expanded availability and strong demand, we expect a higher level of Internet Air net adds in the second half of the year as compared to the first half.”
