AT&T Exec Says Many Remaining FirstNet Sites 'Challenging'
AT&T expects to meet a deadline of March 2023 for FirstNet completion, and many of the remaining sites will be difficult, President-Public Sector and FirstNet Jason Porter told a Cowen investor conference Tuesday. They are often “remote rural areas, tribal…
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lands, national parks and areas like that,” he said: “We’re building ahead of schedule right now, but we are down to the challenging sites that might be really hard to get access to.” While AT&T is building a 5G core for FirstNet, subscribers are largely using a 4G network, Porter said. AT&T had 2.2 million FirstNet connections as of March 31, he noted: Most connections today are phones, and AT&T expects a growing number of other devices.