AT&T expands fiber-to-the-home service in the Bay Area

In the ongoing fiber-to-the-home battle being waged by major telecom and cable players throughout the country, AT&T launched its GigaPower offering in the Bay Area this week.
AT&T said GigaPower provides throughput up to 1 gigabit per second, and is now available in parts of San Francisco, San Jose, Dublin, Mountain View, Santa Clara and San Ramon. The carrier said it plans to triple the availability of the fiber-to-the-home service in the area by the end of the year.
Access to fiber optic networks and high-speed Internet is widely regarded as a foundational element of smart city projects as well as innovation in general as it provides the infrastructure startups, research institutions and other tech interests need.
“AT&T is a valued member of our local business community and has played a strategic role in the economic growth and vibrant quality-of-life in Mountain View,” said city mayor Ken Rosenberg, adding Mountain View looks “forward to the new economic and innovation opportunities it will enable for our residents, entrepreneurs and small businesses.”
Mountain View-based Alphabet has its own fiber-to-the-home play in Google Fiber, which is currently available in Austin, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; and Provo, Utah, with network deployments ongoing in several other cities and exploratory work going on in several more. Google Fiber is in the process of building out in San Francisco and considering deployment in San Jose, but AT&T has effectively beaten Google Fiber to the punch in its own backyard.
“By expanding AT&T GigaPower to additional cities in the Bay Area beyond Cupertino, we are demonstrating our continued commitment to our customers whose appetite for high-speed data continues to grow,” said Jeni Bell, VP and GM for Northern California and Northern Nevada at AT&T. “As the ways in which we communicate and seek entertainment become more data-intensive, our customers will benefit from our expansion of our AT&T GigaPower service.”