ATT Bringing Broadband to Rural Markets

Last week, AT&T announced new initiatives to provide broadband Internet access to their previously under-served rural and inner-city markets. The initiatives include three components:

Offering a satellite-based broadband service later this month in select rural markets in AT&T’s residential service territory, most of which are not served by landline broadband services today.
Affirming the company’s intent to make its Project Lightspeed video services available — within three years — to more than 5.5 million low-income households as part of its initial build in 41 target markets, making them among the first in the nation to receive these new IP-enabled video services.
Expanding the scope of the company’s market efforts related to WiMAX and other fixed wireless technologies. New deployments will begin later this year in Texas and Nevada, joining existing AT&T fixed wireless service offers in Alaska, Georgia and New Jersey.