http://press.qwestapps.com/index.cfm?fa=press.v...

However, this isn't really as AT&T powered as much as it is one of the patchwork acquisitions performed by AT&T

http://gigaom.com/2008/11/06/att-buys-wayport-t...

Basically, AT&T is doing everything possible to avoid investment in their network

“Here’s what AT&T quietly released a few days ago as some kind of “oh, it’s not a backhaul issue” blurb… and yet, for all the talk — it’s still masking the actual issue: Lack of capacity planning.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/10/att-t...

AT&T has to improve their backhaul. I haven’t seen that hit the press anywhere yet.

Contrast this with Verizon who has offered to sell access (this heads off any government intervention… i.e. these guys aren’t dumb) to their wireless (fiber) backhaul network.

http://gigaom.com/2009/03/26/verizon-rents-out-...

So, in summary: backhaul is something a lot of folks don’t know about but goes to explain a great deal of the frustration people have with the mobile Internet as we know it today (you know, as regularly paying monthly consumers).”

source: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/05/11/center-f...