Less than two months since AT&T launched its ultra-fast Fiber 2 Gig and Fiber 5 Gig internet plans comes the news that the carrier has expanded its Multi-Gig speeds to more than a hundred metro areas. The expansion means that AT&T now covers almost 7 million customer locations, and includes seven new multi-gig Fiber metros in Texas, Oklahoma, and Ohio that will go live before the end of 2022.
The ever-increasing need for ultra-fast fiber internet in households shows no signs of slowing down, with AT&T also announcing that it plans further densification within its multi-gig metros through 2022 and beyond. The carrier aims to expand its fiber footprint to provide coverage to 30 million customer locations by the end of 2025.
“The importance of high-speed broadband internet service has never been clearer,” said Bob O’Donnell, President of TECHnalysis Research. “Whether it’s ongoing hybrid work efforts with bandwidth-hungry video meetings, increasing reliance on high-resolution streaming video content, growing interest in online gaming and more, US consumers recognize the need and value of high-quality internet. Multi-gig fiber ups the ante and answers those demands with faster, reliable, symmetrical download and upload speeds.”
What’s the big deal about multi-gig?
With many households streaming content in Ultra HD quality on multiple devices simultaneously, the amount of data that we consume has increased exponentially over the past decade with usage being measured in terabytes rather than gigabytes. Multi-gig speeds are optimized for use on our home networks and offer multiple high-speed lanes of data, similar to how a freeway has multiple lanes for faster vehicles. Multi-gig fiber internet means that multiple users can stream the highest-quality content simultaneously without buffering or their connections dropping out.
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