AT&T, Google announce fiber expansion

AT&T announced plans to expand its gigabit Internet service to households and businesses in 38 more metro areas. Together with the 18 cities in which AT&T already delivers its Gigapower service, this brings to 58 metro areas where AT&T will offer the all-fiber service. U-verse with GigaPower service can provide Internet speeds up to 1 gigabit per second and is available in a growing number of areas across the country since 2013. These are the 38 metro areas where AT&T will launch the service:

• Alabama: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Montgomery

• Arkansas: Fort Smith/Northwest Arkansas and Little Rock

• California: Bakersfield, Fresno, LA, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose

• Florida: Pensacola and West Palm Beach

• Georgia: Augusta

• Indiana: Indianapolis

• Kansas: Wichita

• Kentucky: Louisville

• Louisiana: Baton Rouge, Shreveport-Bossier, Jefferson Parish region and the Northshore

• Mississippi: Jackson

• Missouri: St. Louis

• Michigan: Detroit

• Nevada: Reno

• North Carolina: Asheville

• Ohio: Cleveland and Columbus

• Oklahoma: Oklahoma City and Tulsa

• South Carolina: Charleston, Columbia and Greenville

• Tennessee: Memphis

• Texas: El Paso and Lubbock

• Wisconsin: Milwaukee

This latest expansion comes after AT&T launched gigabit service in parts of Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio and New Braunfels, TX; Orlando, FL; as well as  Gary, Hammond, and Crown Point, IN. The company also offering its gigabit service in neighborhoods in Nashville, KY; Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, FL; the Atlanta, GA area; Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Carrboro, and Cary, NC; in addition to neighborhoods in San Jose, CA; and some suburbs of Chicago, IL.

AT&T plans to bring GigaPower fiber to 14 million customer locations, including the 12.5 million it committed to as part of the AT&T-DirecTV transaction.

Google also announced that it’s looking at expanding its fiber service to Chicago and Los Angeles, adding to the list of  9 cities where  its service is currently available or being deployed. These most recent additions will be Google Fiber’s largest cities to date.

AT&T Plans to Reach 38 More Metros with Blazing Fast Gigabit Internet Speeds (FierceTelecom, Dec. 8, 2015)

AT&T Completes Acquisition of DIRECTV (AT&T Newsroom, July 24, 2015)

Day After AT&T Announcement, Google Fiber Says It’s Coming to Its Two Biggest Cities Yet (Re/Code, Dec. 8, 2015)