AT&T's Europe Interest is "Internet Access"

AT&T is looking to Europe for expansion in large part because U.S. regulators have signaled they will not let AT&T get any bigger in the U.S. market, because the U.S. mobile market is nearly saturated and because Europe, though arguably as saturated as the U.S. market is, holds more promise for broadband access revenue growth.

Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson has said Europe is ripe for high-speed Internet access innovation, for example. 

The GSM Association, for example, argues that the United States "has opened up a large lead in deployment of next-generation technologies."

By the end of 2013, nearly 20 percent of U.S. connections will be on Long Term Evolution networks, compared to fewer than two percent in the European Union. 

Average mobile data connection speeds in the U.S. are now 75 percent faster than those in Europe and by 2017 will be more than twice as fast.

Mobile investment in the United States has outpaced that in Europe, with capital expenditure in the U.S. growing by 70 percent since 2007 while declining in the EU.

All of that creates conditions for revenue growth, AT&T seems to believe.