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AT&T Gigabit Internet Coming To 11 More US Regions (pcmag.com)
AT&T is bringing its gigabit Internet service to 11 new metro areas. Currently available in parts of 29 cities around the country, the ultra-fast network -- which the company is now calling AT&T Fiber -- is expected to reach another 45 locations by the end of this year, reads a PCMag article. From the report: That includes 11 new markets: Florida: Gainesville and Panama City, Georgia: Columbus, Kentucky: Central Kentucky, Louisiana: Lafayette, Mississippi: Biloxi-Gulfport and Northeast Mississippi, Tennessee: Southeastern Tennessee and Knoxville, and Texas: Corpus Christi.
I pity the fool who thinks tethering to an ATT GoPhone is internet access (it isn't).
This is great... I'll be able to exceed the data cap before I am even able to unplug my device!
I'm sure my fellow slashdotters will find copious reasons why this is worthy of everyone's unquestioning contempt.
In Finland (or choose some other small country that doesn't matter), I get 10000TBps access for only .50$ a year!!!
AT&T and big cables does nothing to upgrade their infrastructure until competitors appear, then they stall them through their paid politicians. If their competitors persists, they deploy their subpar upgrades and undercut the pricing of their competitors. If their competitors withdraws from the area, they jack up their pricing and screw over the consumer. If this isn't abuse of monopoly power, I don't know what is.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
While I would love fiber, I'll choose satellite internet over anything from AT&T.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
As someone who has used AT&T Fiber and installed it for many people stay away it's a mess and they cripple upload data, not only do they throttle it, their pos modems get buffer over bloat, crash and they force you to use their dns. Tons of customers have issues with Google and open dns having "errors" within their network.
If all they are going to do is spy on you.
ATT = NSA/CIA asset
It still won't be enough to save them. Nathan
It is all well and good to bring fiber to rural communities but you got to at least be honest that you are not hitting cities yet.
#glico4pretz
I've been waiting for AT&T Gigapower to come to my neighborhood in the middle of a large city in the 2 years since it was announced. Yes, they have to string wires etc. But there seems to be more focus on announcements and less on actual availability.
I have a dual-wan router split with AT&T and Comcast; the latter is faster, but goes down 2x/day. I'll pay for fiber -- come on, take my money!
I don't live in one of the states listed, but every time I see an article like this I have to suspect it's FTTM: "Fiber to the media". Grandiose announcements, followed by installing it in a few neighborhoods, calling it too expensive, then putting "the project on hold". Wait for competition, explain the project is once again resuming, sue some cities to ensure the monopoly, then place the project back on hold.
It's great that urbanites get gig, what about the rest of us who are in supposed-broadband areas, but who can't get more than 3 Mbps DSL?
"That includes 11 new markets: Florida: Gainesville and Panama City, Georgia: Columbus, Kentucky: Central Kentucky, Louisiana: Lafayette, Mississippi: Biloxi-Gulfport and Northeast Mississippi, Tennessee: Southeastern Tennessee and Knoxville, and Texas: Corpus Christi."
I tried looking up Central Kentucky, Louisiana on Google Maps because it was such an odd name, and nothing was found. It took me a bit before I realized while the list contained standard City, State formatting, the author was trying to list State: City which is absolutely horrid to read.
Using a semicolon instead of a comma to split the items would have been smarter
Cities typically are not as under-served as rural communities. Inevitably it will be a leapfrog pattern for the time being.
I can't find any page that discusses upload speeds, which are almost certainly crap.
Meanwhile, Google Fiber (if you're lucky enough to get it) starts at 1Gb/sec symmetric.
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Seriously.
The only people this benefits is people out in the boonies with no other choices but dialup, which is also AT&T.
Everyone who actually has a choice runs, screaming, from AT&T and their world-class crappy service.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
OK, AT&T lies. It says it's available in Los Angeles.
I live within the city limits of Los Angeles, and the most that AT&T will offer me is 45Mbps.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I don't know about the other cities, but Lafayette, La isn't underserved. They've had municipal fiber for years.
just the ones at&t deems to be "profitable enough" to warrant the build-out. just like they have done in the past, just like verizon does with fios, and just like most other broadband providers. cherry picking at its finest--build out where the money is, ignore everything else.
Still. Years after they promised to fix it, billions of subsidies later..... and we still have no broadband. Unless you count satellite, which isn't broadband to begin with. Somehow the government of the past forced telecommunication companies to get phone service everywhere - but out current government CAN'T do that with broadband.
What a freaking joke.
I'm in a region where Gigapower has supposedly been available for some time (not one of the new ones). But the only places I've seen with faster internet service are businesses that somehow get a connection to one of the backbone fiber companies (the Starbucks in the fancy "lifestyle" mall for example).
Fastest service AT&T actually offers the proles at home is 18Mbit down/1.5 up, and that's horribly expensive. Given my experience with their 6/1 service (which often is faster up than down), I'd rate the 18/1.5 service as probably not worth the price. Mine is still cheaper than bottom of the line Comcast (10 down/unknown up) but not by a lot. AT&T's 18/1.5 is considerably more expensive than the standard (25Mbit) Comcast service. And Comcast is much more reliable (though ... worlds worst customer service with AT&T trying valiantly to catch up but occasionally actually providing information) compared to Uverse delivered from the node on the same old copper phone wires from ages ago.
Almost certainly, it won't be available until AT&T rewires the neighborhoods with fiber. Which won't happen until my granddaughter (not yet born) retires at their current rate of work. Move along folks, no more story here.
I wonder if it will be available in Silicon Valley any time before the twenty-SECOND century.
You'd think they'd string Silicon Valley early. But historically they seem to leave it for last.
Maybe it's left over bad blood from the "bellheads vs. netheads" feud that led to the growth, and eventual takeover of networking, by packet-switched networks culminating in the Internet.
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Are these new markets all South of the Mason-Dixon line because it'll soon be too cold to dig easily further North, or are there other reasons as well?
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