AT&T Inc. (T) Presents at Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference (Transcript)

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference September 12, 2022 1:00 PM ET

Company Participants

John Stankey - CEO

Conference Call Participants

Brett Feldman - Goldman Sachs

Brett Feldman

All right. Welcome, everyone. If you could all please find a seat. We're going to go ahead and get started here with the next session in our keynote track. It is a pleasure to welcome to the first-ever Communacopia + Technology Conference. John Stankey, the CEO of AT&T. John, thanks for being with us today.

John Stankey

Thanks for having us in, Brett. Before we get started, can I do the safe harbor statement?

Brett Feldman

Absolutely.

John Stankey

All right. We're going to talk about some things that may be subject to uncertainty in the future. As a result of that, the results may differ materially. If you go to our Investor Relations website, you can see the full disclosure on the safe harbor and read it in its entirety, if you feel the need to do that. And I'll remind everybody, we're still in the quiet period for Spectrum Auction 108.

Question-and-Answer Session

Q - Brett Feldman

All right. Well, let's jump into it. You spent a significant part of the beginning of your tenure as CEO, taking steps to reposition AT&T, I think a year ago, one of the topics was were you in that process? Earlier this year, you substantially wrapped it up through your transactions, some adjustments to your capital allocation policies. So the question is, what's the priority now? What's the management team focused on? What are the real things you're trying to get accomplished?

John Stankey

So the priority now is to run the business better and to make sure that we position AT&T to be the best connectivity provider in the