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September 24, 2020 Talks at GS With AT&T’s John Stankey Above (L to R): John Waldron of Goldman Sachs and John Stankey of AT&T The pandemic has “put an exclamation point” on trends that were already reshaping the technology and media industries, said AT&T Corp. CEO John Stankey. “The march to direct-to-consumer and the ability for customers to watch content when they want and where they want, that trend was clear,” he said in a Talks at GS episode moderated by Goldman Sachs COO John Waldron at the firm's annual Communacopia conference. “But, boy, is it on steroids right now.” Stankey also talked about the critical role broadband has played over the past six months, and drew on AT&T’s history as a telephone company to argue for more ambitious government policy today when it comes to expanding broadband access. “The government understood that if we wanted everybody connected to a telephone,” he said, “there were places where markets would not economically build infr