{"id":988658,"date":"2026-01-30T08:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988658"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:09:44","slug":"att-bets-on-fiber-spectrum-deals-to-forecast-annual-profit-above-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/att-bets-on-fiber-spectrum-deals-to-forecast-annual-profit-above-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T bets on fiber, spectrum deals to forecast annual profit above expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T forecast annual profit above market expectations on Wednesday, on bets that its \u2060wireless and fiber network expansion would allow the U.S. carrier to tap growing 5G and high-speed internet demand, sending its shares up more than 4%. <\/p>\n<p>The bullish forecast hinges on \u200cAT&amp;T&#8217;s infrastructure push, anchored \u200cby two major deals &#8211; a nearly $6 billion purchase of Lumen&#8217;s consumer fiber business and a $23 \u200cbillion acquisition of EchoStar&#8217;s spectrum licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T forecast annual profit above market expectations on Wednesday, on bets that its \u2060wireless and fiber network expansion would allow the U.S. carrier to tap growing 5G and high-speed internet demand, sending its shares up more than 4%. The bullish forecast hinges on \u200cAT&amp;T&#8217;s infrastructure push, anchored \u200cby two major deals &#8211; a nearly $6 billion purchase of Lumen&#8217;s consumer fiber business and a $23 \u200cbillion acquisition of EchoStar&#8217;s spectrum licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}