AT&T has launched their 300 Mbps U-verse GigaPower internet service in Austin, TX. The all-fiber service is a 20x improvement in internet upstream feeds, with packages starting at $70 per month. The increased bandwidth allow quicker streaming and download speeds for music, movies, TV shows, and other web-based media. AT&T says they will be rolling out the service to additional areas in the city throughout 2014, including French Place, Mueller, Zilker and Onion Creek. “Our all-fiber network enables U-verse with GigaPower to give Austinites the fastest speeds available to consumers in the city,” said Dahna Hull, AT&T’s vice president and general manager for Austin.
Source: AT&T via PRNewsWire
[showhide]AUSTIN, Texas, December 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T (NYSE: T) today is launching U-verse with GigaPower,* an all-fiber Internet network with the fastest speeds Austin consumers have ever experienced. It’s available now to eligible Austinites at www.att.com/gigapower for as low as $70 a month.**
With initial speeds of up to 300 Mbps, AT&T’s U-verse with GigaPower offers upstream speeds 20 times faster than what’s available today and enhanced TV to tens of thousands of Austinites. AT&T plans to continue the rollout to new areas of the city in 2014 and beyond.
U-verse with GigaPower customers who also select U-verse TV, the country’s fastest growing TV service¹, will get U-verse’s largest storage capacity DVR.
“Our all-fiber network enables U-verse with GigaPower to give Austinites the fastest speeds available to consumers in the city,” said Dahna Hull, AT&T’s vice president and general manager for Austin. “With U-verse with GigaPower, our customers can download movies and music and navigate, post and interact on the web faster than ever before, and have one of the best TV experiences around. It’s reliable, crazy fast and priced to attract more and more people to give us a try.”
AT&T plans to expand availability of U-verse with GigaPower beyond parts of Austin area neighborhoods like French Place, Mueller, Zilker and Onion Creek to even more residents and small businesses in 2014. Expansion plans will, in part, be influenced by the number of Austinites voting for their neighborhood at www.att.com/gigapower.
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