At least one hundred United States municipalities are expected to receive AT&T's television, internet and voice package U-verse with one gigabit per second GigaPower capability.
The 100 participating cities will include Atlanta, Ga., Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Ill, Cleveland, Ohio, Houston, Texas, and Miami, Fla., according to a company press release Tuesday.
AT&T is also expected to install the technology in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose, Calif.
AT&T's senior executive vice president of AT&T Home Solutions told eweek.com the telecommunications company wants to involve themselves in municipalities serious about advancing their technology.
"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," Lori Lee said in a statement.
AT&T's CEO indicated at a Morgan Stanley conference March 6 that the company has recorded positive results with its focus on fiber technologies.
"We are going to hit 1 million new business locations with fiber this year. ... In fact, we have a category, Strategic Services and Business, we call it, and it's basically VPN, Ethernet, fiber-based solutions and IP broadband," Randall Stephenson said.
In addition to businesses, the company has also increased its income levels.
"That is now a $9 billion revenue stream. Coming into this year, that revenue stream was growing by 10 percent. Exiting this year, it's [going to be] growing at over 17 percent. ... So we're very encouraged," Stephenson said.
The technology will reportedly give municipalities quicker internet speeds compared to what is currently out there.
North Carolina is also in negotiations with the state's Next Generation Networks to bring advance their internet services and broadband efforts, and implement the U-verse technology.
The work could occur in Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Winston-Salem, and Raleigh, N.C. to implement the U-verse technology. '
Six governments and four universities are overseeing the project, which also has backing from Chambers of Commerce and businesses in North Carolina's research triangle.