AT&T said it will expand its GigaPower gigabit...
AT&T said it will expand its GigaPower gigabit fiber network into Greensboro, North Carolina (http://soc.att.com/1y5lERM). The city was one of the metro areas AT&T had identified in April as a possible target for future GigaPower expansion (CD April 22 p8).…
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The telco said it chose to move forward in Greensboro because of the city’s “business friendly” policies. The expansion into Greensboro “will open tremendous new opportunities for our citizens in many fields,” Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan, a Democrat, said in an AT&T news release Wednesday. The telco said it’s deploying additional network infrastructure in Greensboro to support GigaPower, but will announce specific location availability and pricing later for its U-verse with GigaPower Internet service, which will eventually have a top speed of 1 Gbps. AT&T had said Monday and Tuesday that it would expand GigaPower into Houston and Overland Park, Kansas (CD Aug 6 p12).