Excluding the impact of an accounting change, AT&T said revenues rose 17.2% year-on-year to 48.9 billion US dollars in the fourth quarter, primarily due to the Time Warner acquisition. Declines in legacy wireline services, wireless equipment, domestic video and Vrio were more than offset by WarnerMedia and growth in domestic wireless services and Xandr, AT&T said. Xandr, the advertising business, reported a 49% increase in revenues (26% excluding the AppNexus acquisition).
In 2018, capital expenditures totalled 21.3 billion dollars, down from 21.6 billion dollars in 2017. In 2019, AT&T plans to increase capex to 23 billion dollars (including one billion dollars it expects to be reimbursed), as it rolls out 5G.
On a conference call with analysts, Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, said: "Over a three-to-five year time horizon, unequivocally 5G will serve as a broadband, a fixed broadband replacement product... as we look at 5G, will you have enough capacity to have a good broadband product that serves as a streaming service for all of your DIRECTV NOW, your Netflix, etc.? I absolutely am convinced that we will have that capacity, particularly as we turn up millimetre wave spectrum. That's where the capacity and the performance comes from and that's where you'll begin to see a broad - a true replacement opportunity for fixed line broadband." Source: AT&T statement
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