All that money which they spent on buying Direct TV ($48.5 billion, and with debt estimated as $67.1 billion!) they could spend on building out fiber optic networks and upgrading their inferior DSL and U-verse to proper fiber to the house technology. But no, it&#x27;s AT&amp;T for you. They have money to buy obsolete TV technology, but they don&#x27;t have any money to actually upgrade their network to something up to date.