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accession: "0000732717-24-000062"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "T"
cik: "0000732717"
company_name: "AT&T INC."
filed_at: "2024-12-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T10:34:04.274684+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AT&T unveils strategic plan: fiber to 50M+ locations, $10B buyback, $40B+ returns

## Summary
- Targets 50M+ fiber locations; long-term guidance for sustained growth in service revenue, EBITDA, FCF, and adjusted EPS.
- Expects $40B+ shareholder returns over three years via dividends and share repurchases; initial $10B buyback authorization expected by end of 2026.
- Beginning Q1 2025, will recast adjusted diluted EPS and FCF to exclude DIRECTV results and cash flows, reflecting planned sale to TPG.
- Supplemental non-GAAP reconciliations show recast quarterly FCF and adjusted EPS figures from 2023 through Q3 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000732717-24-000062
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: T
- cik: 0000732717
- company_name: AT&T INC.
- filed_at: 2024-12-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271724000062/0000732717-24-000062-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271724000062/t-20241203.htm

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