ATT Internet Air before Fiber?

kdepasquale

I’m in an area where ATT Fiber service is patchy - over the last year or so, I’ve seen ATT install new fiber service to many of the neighborhoods surrounding mine, but not mine just yet, and replacing lots of old utility poles both in my neighborhood and the surrounding ones.

Up until a few weeks ago, the ATT website said they couldn’t service my home with internet at all, although a few of the homes at the entry of my neighborhood could get some sort of DSL service. Recently though, it looks like they’ve enabled Internet Air for my address / neighborhood.

I’m wondering that since Fiber has been slowly creeping forward towards my area, if Internet Air is being deployed as a stopgap until my neighborhood also has Fiber installed. Some of the other areas around me had Internet Air before fiber was deployed, but I’m not sure if that’s just a coincidence.

nucleartx

The Internet Air service is based on if a tower has been upgraded with C-Band/DoD panels that allow gigabit + speeds. Fiber gets rolled out based on ROI areas. At&t may have seen heavy internet usage and determined that Fiber would be a wise investment.

SpottedCat

I was offered Internet Air a few months before fiber was installed into my neighborhood. I suspect they wanted to secure customers who would then be switched to fiber.

Some people had said that Internet Air being offered means you’re not getting fiber anytime soon. Well, they’re lying because they were trenching in the fiber within six months of that offer.

badtlc4

really hard to say. Many areas getting Internet Air are doing so because at&t doesn’t want to support the copper anymore but they have no intentions of adding fiber.

TLDR: internet air doesn’t mean anything for your future options.

dslwanter

I get a message when checking availability that says fiber is coming soon and I can get Internet Air in the meantime for an easy cutover. I have fiber from my cable monopoly of which I am paying more than I would with AT&T, but I’ll stick with it until flexnapp comes through my neighborhood. It’s patchy here too, I am surrounded by fiber in all 3 adjacent developments.