AT&T continues to be bullish about its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) ambitions.

John Stankey, CEO and chairman of AT&T, told investors during its second-quarter earnings call that it has set an aggressive fiber build-out schedule. 

“This will be our largest year ever for fiber expansion, with plans to reach 8 million new locations, including over 4 million locations acquired from Lumen,” he said.

During the second quarter, AT&T added more than 1 million total consumer and business locations reached with fiber for a total of 38.6 million.

The company remains on track to reach over 40 million total fiber locations by the end of 2026 and more than 60 million by the end of 2030.  

AT&T reported 646,000 total consumer and business Advanced Connectivity internet net adds, including 367,000 fiber and 279,000 fixed wireless subscribers for the second quarter.

Driven by growth in Advanced Connectivity fiber and wireless revenues, with fiber revenues including the impact of our first-quarter acquisition of Lumen’s mass markets fiber business, revenues for the second quarter totaled $31.6 billion, versus $30.8 billion in the year-ago quarter, up 2.3%.

(This article will be updated with additional information from AT&T's earnings call.)