AT&T Has Actually Spent Less on Network Upgrades Since iPhone Launch

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Posted December 17, 2009 at 11:29am by iClarified

AT&T has spent 30% less on capital expenditures over the last eight quarters while wireless data revenues have increased by 80%.

Fake Steve first pointed to this information in AT&T's Financial Operations and Statistics Summary early this morning.

Go look at their financial statements and open up the Financial Operations and Statistics Summary and look at capital expenditures over the past eight quarters. I’m no math whiz, but it looks like capex has gone down by about 30% over the time period. Scroll down a bit to the Wireless section and check out data revenues — they’re up 80% over the same period.

Considering AT&T is clearing 3 billion in profits each quarter this information does little to assure customers that the company is doing all they can to improve their network.

In fact, threats to impose additional charges for wireless data are just adding insult to injury.

Gizmodo has posted some charts to help you visualize the situation.

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AT&T Has Actually Spent Less on Network Upgrades Since iPhone Launch

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Resydentdevil - December 17, 2009 at 12:46pm

purely tunnel vision. there is more to a wireless company than expanding their coverage and increasing data speed. as the chart shows, the expense on capital expenditures increased every quarter since the iphone launch. iphone is not the only product they sell, thus the company shouldnt be run revolving the performance of one product.

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Steve - December 17, 2009 at 2:20pm

They should if the iPhone is 90% of their revenue.