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AT&T kills home Internet service in NY over law requiring $15 or $20 plans
16 Jan 2025 19:02 GMT
AT&T has pitched Internet Air as a long-term replacement for DSL Internet in areas where it doesn't plan to build fiber. AT&T has said it won't build fiber home Internet in over half of its wireline footprint and will focus its fiber builds …
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AT&T Is Stopping Its 5G Internet Air Service in NY Because of New Broadband Law
15 Jan 2025 20:28 GMT
A new broadband law is going into effect this week in New York state requiring internet provider to offer low-income residents access to monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps. As a response, AT&T has decided that it no longer …
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My Week With AT&T Internet Air: How Did It Fare?
22 Dec 2024 17:22 GMT
5G home internet has been taking the broadband world by storm lately. One report found that 89% of new broadband subscriptions over the past two years came from just two 5G providers: T-Mobile and Verizon. When AT&T threw its hat in the ring this year, …
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AT&T Refuses To Upgrade Millions Of DSL Customers To Fiber Despite Untold Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies And Government Favors
13 Dec 2024 16:22 GMT
from the ill-communication dept
Four years years ago AT&T, a company that, for years, cheapened out on upgrading its broadband lines to fiber, effectively stopped selling DSL. While that’s understandable given the limitations of the dated copper-based …
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AT&T’s Plan to Phase Out Copper Networks: What It Means for Rural Customers
06 Dec 2024 18:14 GMT
AT&T recently announced plans to phase out its aging copper phone and DSL lines by 2029. This move is part of the company’s broader effort to modernize its network infrastructure, focusing on wireless and fiber solutions. However, the shift raises …
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AT&T Plans Copper Retirement By 2029: Here’s How
04 Dec 2024 20:10 GMT
AT&T plans to essentially retire its copper network by 2029, said company executives at an investor meeting yesterday. The AT&T copper retirement plan dovetails with the company’s plan to make fiber broadband available to 50 million locations by …
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My Hands-On Experience With AT&T Internet Air: Here's What I Learned
27 Nov 2024 02:11 GMT
I often say that the best internet service is the one you never notice. With steady buffering and long load times, AT&T Internet Air never let me forget that I was using it.
I have as friendly a testing environment as you’ll ever find for an internet …
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AT&T opens the door on its copper network shutdown
13 Nov 2024 16:08 GMT
AT&T gave regulators a peek at its efforts to shutter its aging copper network, arguing that demand for and use of it has mostly collapsed.
"Across AT&T's entire footprint, new orders for AT&T Residential Local Service have plummeted …
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AT&T Open to Tenants in its Fiber Footprint, Fixed Wireless Adds Level Off
23 Oct 2024 19:57 GMT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2024 – AT&T’s fixed wireless product continued to add subscribers in the third quarter, but not quite as quickly as analysts had expected.
The company saw 135,000 new consumer customers on its Internet Air service, a bit lower than …
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AT&T doesn't rule out using open-access model in own fiber footprint
23 Oct 2024 17:20 GMT
AT&T CEO John Stankey says the company has seen better-than-expected results in the use of open-access models outside the operator's own fiber footprint. He said the economics of the open-access model is also worth a look within AT&T's own …