AT&T won't even build fiber home internet where they've already got fiber. One of their fiber lines has been running under my driveway for years but they've never offered it at my address.
It pains me especially that this is the company that way back in the day gave us Claude Shannon, Richard Hamming, and the transistor.
I don't know why they want to get out of the copper business...after 2022 FTC change, copper lines increased like 10X in cost and the provider has literally no legal obligation to provide uptime guarantee/support, sounds like a telecom's wet dream!
I just got back from visiting family out in the boonies. They have had fiber on their street for more than a decade. It runs right over their drive way and down a few more telephone poles to … the dslam. The dslam which is still v1 speeds and att won’t even sell new dsl service on it / is aggressively pushing old customers out.
They’ve been happy starlink users for a while now.
AT&T won't even build fiber home internet to urban/suburban residents that have existing fiber-to-the-node (original U-Verse) service -- places less than a mile away from functional residential AT&T fiber drop already (DSLAM).
They're still happy to charge me the $100/month for that ~60mbps VDSL copper service though. (even though, if anything happens to that line, they're refusing to repair/replace it)
It's ridiculous.