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United States : AT&T Launches New "Blazing-Fast" Internet Service for Businesses [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) As AT&T continues to aggressively deploy fiber to thousands of multi-tenant office buildings nationwide, the company today announced a new U-verse High Speed Internet service for businesses AT&T Business Fiber that provides businesses operating in AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings with blazing-fast broadband speeds. The new Internet service will offer upload and download speeds over AT&T s high speed fiber network up to 300 Mbps initially, with future plans to offer speeds up to 1 Gbps. AT&T Business Fiber is the first new service introduced under the company s Fiber to the Building program, which is part of Project Velocity IP. The project includes plans to reach more than 1 million additional business customer locations with fiber in AT&T s wireline service area. To date, AT&T has deployed fiber to more than half a million additional business customer locations across its wireline service area. The new high speed Internet service is available to more than 16,000 businesses located in AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings in Austin, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; Detroit; Indianapolis; Sacramento, Calif.; and Orlando, Fla. Additional markets where the company expects to launch AT&T Business Fiber will be announced later this year. AT&T Business Fiber offers multiple benefits, including: Symmetric and asymmetric speeds ranging from 25 Mbps 300 Mbps, with future plans to reach 1 Gbps; Bandwidth that supports business critical applications such as cloud, backup, storage, video conferencing, and more; No signed contracts; Firewall protection via a Fiber Broadband Gateway device; Prices starting as low as $50 per month for 25 Mbps asymmetric service. Our newest blazing-fast U-verse service, AT&T Business Fiber, will be a game changer for businesses in AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings, said Cathy Martine, AT&T President of Enterprise Business Solutions. By offering our high speed tiers at speeds of up to 300 megabits per second, and soon 1 gigabit per second, they will be able to access services and technologies that will help take their businesses to the next level. The first business to order and receive the new AT&T Business Fiber service is GameStop Corporation, specifically its retail store located at the Barton Creek Mall in Austin, Texas. The AT&T high-speed network will support the company s GameStop Technology Institute, which is focused on delivering to its brick-n-mortar retail stores technology advancements that drive positive customer experiences and accelerate the pace of change within the retail industry. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |