AT&T Wireless Plans to Add 21 Cities With U-Verse GigaPower for Super-Fast Internet Speeds

AT&T customers and businesses will receive the company's television, Internet, and voice package U-verse with its one gigabit per second-fast GigaPower capability, according to a company press release.

"We're delivering advanced services that offer consumers and small businesses the ability to do more, faster, help communities create a new wave of innovation, and encourage economic development," Lori Lee, senior executive vice president of AT&T's Home Solutions division said in a statement. "We're interested in working with communities that appreciate the value of the most advanced technologies and are willing to encourage investment by offering solid investment cases and policies," Lee said in the statement.

AT&T has selected a number of cities to implement the new digs, including Atlanta, Ga., Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Cleveland, Houston and Miami. A number of California municipalities, including Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose will also be outfitted with the fresh technology.

The company added Austin, Dallas, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Winston-Salem prior to Monday's announcement.

North Carolina is also negotiating with the state's Next Generation Networks to bring advanced internet services and broadband efforts in areas of Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Winston-Salem, and Raleigh, N.C. to implement the U-verse with GigaPower.

According to the press release, the gigabit will reportedly give municipalities quicker Internet than what's currently available.

Consumers can download movies from the Internet in less than 36 seconds and 25 songs in no more than one second, and television shows the press release reported.

According to information on the network's website, six governments and four universities will oversee the project, which is also backed by Chambers of Commerce and businesses located in North Carolina's research triangle.

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