AT&T CEO: Connecting the Future, Embracing AI and Driving Cultural Change

Hi everybody and welcome to In Good Company and today we are live from New York. Now, the first thing I did when I arrived was to change my SIM card in my phone to an AT<unk>T SIM card. Thank you for that, Lexer. And so therefore it's kind of fun to be here with the CEO of the whole company, AT<unk>T. Now, AT<unk>T, American telephone and telegraph company, you know, founded by Alexander Graham Bell going back to like 1877.

That's quite a history, right? Just about on year 150s next year, so it's a big deal. Now, telecom industry has always been fascinating and interesting, but what's interesting for you in the industry right now? I I think there's two things that are really important. In the United States, because of what came after the Telecom Act, which was a attempt to deregulate all the various forms of communication, we're now seeing technology actually achieve that.

There's real intermodal competition between wireless and fixed and satellite. And as a result of that, there's a reordering of assets going on in the United States and where we used to have companies that focus maybe in one technology branch or another, it's now just about can you deliver a network that gets customers on the internet? And can you do it whether they need to be on wireless or a fixed connection or through satellite? And that reordering of assets is pretty interesting because I think it's gonna readjust the winners and losers in the market.

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