American multinational telecommunications company AT&T is planning to expand its coverage for its superfast fiber Internet, "GigaPower." The company is now offering an Internet service of 1 gigabit per second which is being expanded to 38 cities including Los Angeles and West Palm Beach, Florida. To date, the company is now servicing 56 cities, a report from iDigital Times said on Wednesday.
"AT&T GigaPower is available at more than one million locations across the 56 cities where it offers service. By 2016, AT&T plans to double its service. AT&T GigaPower offers customers fiber internet at 25 songs per second. DirecTV customers have access. In 2015 AT&T added over 400,000 U-Verse subscribers with a major expansion in the southern United States. In addition to its internet AT&T has also beefed up its offerings for cellular customers," the report said.
In a statement, Brad Bentley, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of AT&T Entertainment Group said that the company's GigaPower has surpassed the expectations of the customers.
"Customer demand for AT&T GigaPower and sales have exceeded expectations since launching speeds up to 1 gigabit per second in Austin. The faster speeds offered through AT&T GigaPower keep consumers and small businesses connected as they are accessing more content on more devices. This improves a customer's experience when they are connected to the cloud, hosting a video conference, streaming videos and music, playing online games and more," Bentley said, as quoted in the report.
"The service competes with Google Fiber, and AT&T has made a habit of charging less money for GigaPower in cities where both are available to consumers, like Kansas City and Austin - and more in areas where they're not. Both companies have a growing list of cities where fiber connectivity is planned, but customers in most of those cities will still be waiting a while before the super-fast, 1-gigabit-per-second internet data speeds are actually made available," The Verge said.