Friday, June 26, 2015

AT&T Launches Gigabit Service in Chicago

Embedded image permalinkAT&T is launching U-verse with AT&T GigaPower to residential and small business locations in parts of the City of Chicago during summer of 2015.  Earlier, U-verse with AT&T GigaPower launched in parts of Elgin, Oswego, Plainfield, Skokie, Yorkville and surrounding communities.


AT&T says the network is the first Chicago residential service to feature speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.


U-verse “High Speed Internet Premier” speeds up to 1Gbps start as low as $120 a month, or speeds at 100 Mbps start as low as $90 a month, with a one year price guarantee.



The services also can be bundled with other services such as entertainment video and voice.


AT&T plans to expand its 100 percent fiber network in up to 25 markets. U-verse with AT&T GigaPower has officially launched in parts of the Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Chicago, Cupertino, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Nashville, Raleigh-Durham and Winston-Salem markets.


Plans have also been announced to launch AT&T GigaPower in parts of the Greensboro, Jacksonville, Miami, St. Louis and San Antonio markets.

Additionally, AT&T has committed that upon approval of its proposed acquisition of DIRECTV, the company will expand the AT&T GigaPower network to an additional 2 million customer locations. All of these 2 million locations are over and above what the company announced in 2014.

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