AT&T has signed a multi-year purchase agreement worth more than $1 billion with Corning Incorporated.

The agreement will see carrier AT&T buy equipment from Corning to drive its fiber rollout across the US.

AT&T will buy fiber, cable, and connectivity products from Corning, a company which it has worked with for decades.

The carrier will have access to Corning's Evolv portfolio of connectivity products, including Evolv FlexNAP with Multifiber Pushlok Technology.

This technology will be compliant with the Build America, Buy America provisions of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program (BEAD), notes Corning.

“We’ve built the nation’s fastest broadband network,” said John Stankey, CEO of AT&T.

“This new multi-year agreement with Corning helps us to connect more households, communities, and businesses with the high-speed, reliable Internet they need to thrive in a digital world."

AT&T has ramped up its fiber push significantly in recent years. At present, the company has passed around 28.3 million premises across the US. The carrier is aiming to surpass 30 million by the end of next year.

In the company's most recent earnings for Q3, AT&T added 226,000 fiber Internet subscribers. The carrier serves more than eight million fiber customers. It was the 19th consecutive quarter that AT&T added a net 200,000 fiber customers.

Last month, AT&T outlined fresh plans to expand its fiber joint venture with Gigapower, as the carrier wants to expand its fiber footprint beyond the initial 1.5 million locations announced in December 2022.

When initially formed in 2022, the JV was established to focus on customers outside of AT&T’s traditional 21-state wireline service footprint.