AT&T has been at the forefront of delivering communications services to customers since being founded by Alexander Graham Bell back in the 1800s. Since then they have expanded their services to include, in addition to AT&T's landline phone service, high Speed Internet, DirecTV, mobile phone plus a whole lot more. In addition to DirecTV, there is also AT&T's fiber optic Internet and U-Verse TV. You can actually get bundles including Internet, DirecTV and phone service.
AT&T announced that they were buying Time Warner Entertainment to better rival Comcast and Walt Disney Corporation. In addition to offering cable TV and Internet, Comcast owns NBCUniversal Studios and Walt Disney owns, well Walt Disney Studios. Disney doesn't deliver Internet connection yet but of course Comcast does. And Disney will soon be delivering its own OTT programming. With all the content owned by Time Warner and the delivery infrastructure already in place with DirecTV and AT&T's own U-verse TV, AT&T will have a lot of power. It is likely that bundles in the future will include wired Internet, wireless Internet, traditional cable like programming plus on demand options similar to Netflix, security and smart home systems
AT&T Tests 5G
AT&T has been testing 5G for a year and a half or so and has reached some pretty fast speeds in lab tests of the next-gen wireless technology. Speeds of up to 14 Gigabits per second. AT&T is in a race with other mobile and Internet providers to develop 5G technology to bring services like DirecTV Now and connection to Internet of Things devices to customers across the US. Most connected devices need to be connected wirelessly. AT&T says the first commercially available 5G should start rolling out in 2018 or 2019.
Much of the Internet of Things will be powered by 5G.
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