AT&T is bringing it all together for our customers, from the revolutionary iPhone to next-generation TV services and sophisticated solutions for multi-national businesses. For more than a century, we have consistently provided innovative, reliable, high-quality products and services and excellent customer care. Today, our mission is to connect people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else. We're fulfilling this vision by creating new solutions for consumers and businesses and by driving innovation in the communications and entertainment industry.
We're recognized as the leading worldwide provider of IP-based communications services to businesses. We're also the top U.S. provider of wireless, high speed Internet access, Wi-Fi, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services.
And we're making huge advances in the entertainment and communications industry. For example, we've expanded our video offerings to include next-generation television services such as AT&T U-verseSM TV. It's part of our "three-screen" integration strategy to deliver services across the three screens people rely on most — the mobile device, the PC and the TV.
As we continue to break new ground and deliver new solutions, we're focused on delivering the high-quality customer service that is our heritage.
U.S. PresenceWe serve customers nationwide with a broad range of wireless voice and data services. In fact, we're the nation's largest wireless carrier based on subscribers, with 71.4 million. We hold spectrum licenses in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. We serve millions of customers, concentrated in 22 states, with wired services, including broadband, long distance and local voice.
Global ReachOur customers work and live in virtually every country and territory in the world. We serve thousands of enterprise and multinational business corporations on six continents.
We offer a variety of service plans that enable U.S.-based customers to stay connected to friends and work colleagues who are overseas. We also enable our customers to keep in touch when they travel outside the U.S.
We provide the best coverage of any wireless carrier worldwide. We deliver the widest international voice coverage of any wireless carrier in
the world. With AT&T, customers have the freedom to make wireless calls using an internationally enabled phone on six continents and in more than 200 countries. We offer wireless data coverage in more countries than any U.S. carrier — with wireless data-roaming in more than 145 countries for laptops, hand-held devices and other data services and third-generation (3G) services in 60 countries. We also offer wireless service on 75 cruise ships worldwide.
Consumer ServicesAT&T's portfolio of services — perhaps the most robust in the marketplace — delivers choice, value and convenience across a range of options. Millions of consumers have chosen our comprehensive service bundles because of our competitive pricing and the convenience of a single bill for wired and wireless voice and data, broadband Internet, TV and messaging services.
We're also making the three-screen strategy a reality for customers. We have introduced a number of integrated, multi-screen services, and we'll be launching more soon.
Small Business ServicesWe serve millions of small business customers nationwide with a broad portfolio of communications services. We give business customers of all sizes access to one of the world's most advanced IP networks through the convergence of voice, data and video services that include.
NetworksThe AT&T network includes extensive wireless and wired access capabilties, as well as one of the world's most advanced and powerful IP backbones.
The AT&T global backbone network carries 16.0 petabytes of data traffic on an average business day — the equivalent of more than 2.6 megabytes of data each business day for every man, woman and child on the planet — to nearly every continent and country, with up to 99.999 percent reliability.
Our backbone network carries a full range of IP-based services, including wireless data, business video, data and voice services, private line and wavelength traffic, as well as IP-based residential services and Internet access for AT&T's 14.6 million DSL and AT&T U-verse service customers.
Our network also incorporates Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), which supports a full range of applications over a single IP network infrastructure with the highest levels of service quality.
To stay ahead of the ever-increasing demand for online video, photos, music and IP-based business applications, we recently switched on the nation's first coast-to-coast IP/MPLS network using new-generation routing technology that carries data at 40 Gbps. More than 40 percent of the IP traffic carried over the company's backbone network rides on this new-generation platform.
