10.12.2015 - 18:17 [ Techdirt ]

AT&T Has Fooled The Press And Public Into Believing It‘s Building A Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists

A few years ago, AT&T realized something amazing: you don‘t have to build a cutting edge, fiber to the home broadband network, when it‘s relatively easy to fool the press and public into believing you‘re building cutting edge, fiber to the home network. So as AT&T was actually busy reducing its fixed-line broadband spending and quietly walking away from DSL users it didn‘t want to upgrade, it launched a service it calls „U-Verse with Gigapower.“ Basically, AT&T‘s delivering gigabit speeds to high-end housing developments, then pretending the upgrades are much, much larger than they actually are.