AT&T is bringing fiber-to-the-home Internet to five new metro areas this month, boosting its fiber total to 51 metro areas in the US. Milwaukee, Wisconsin has AT&T Fiber now, and later this month the service will arrive in Columbia, South Carolina; Jackson, Mississippi; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Shreveport, Louisiana, AT&T announced today.
AT&T Fiber is available to nearly four million homes and businesses (up from three million in November 2016), but there’s still a lot of work left to put fiber in additional cities and expand deployment in those where it’s already available. “By mid-2019 we plan to reach at least 12.5 million locations across 67 metro areas with our 100 percent fiber network,” AT&T said. The company agreed to hit those numbers in exchange for getting its purchase of DirecTV approved in 2015.
AT&T has more than 15 million Internet subscribers in the US, mainly via the company’s old DSL network and its slightly newer fiber-to-the-node service that boosts speeds by putting fiber closer to each home. Fiber-to-the-premises is fastest of all, with download and upload speeds of up to 1Gbps.
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Source: Ars Technica – AT&T lights up gigabit fiber in five new metro areas