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"The exact comment I made was we're going to put a pause on our new broadband deployment plans until we see how these rules came out," Stephenson said today in an interview with CNBC. "We have seen how the rules came out. As we read those rules, we do believe they're subject to modification by the courts and remand by the courts to the FCC.".

AT&T has claimed to be considering fiber deployments in up to 100 cities, but it never revealed an exact number, making it difficult to determine whether AT&T's actual construction matches the company's internal plans.

Just as AT&T threatened to pull broadband investments if the FCC adopted Title II, AT&T claims it needs DirecTV to justify certain investments in wireless and fiber broadband.

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