AT&T says they'll be spending $1 billion worldwide this year on their network infrastructure, focusing in particular on running four undersea cables connecting North America and Asia-Pac. Like Verizon and Google, the carrier is responding to a massive surge in demand for bandwidth across the Pacific, which has about half the capacity that's running across the Atlantic. The press release from those cuddleable ragamuffins at AT&T says they'll also be adding new core MPLS routers in Europe, Asia and the U.S., beefing up existing data center hosting capacity and building a new hosting center in Bangalore.AT&T recently fired a PR shot at Comcast by posing as a cable customer and buying 150 cable connections from the company. After testing the network, the telco claimed most Comcast customers weren't getting the speeds they were advertised. With their FTTN plans unable to match the end throughput of DOCSIS 3.0 for most users, their execs have begun ramping up marketing the company as having a superior global network (though in this case they're primarily highlighting their enterprise capacity).