AT&T Reaches Business Fiber Milestone

PRESS RELEASE — DALLAS, Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T* today announced that it has added 1 million additional business customer locations to its fiber network since 2012 when the company began its aggressive fiber expansion program. The expansion helped extend the AT&T U.S. fiber network another 76,000 route miles, bringing the total to nearly 500,000. AT&T offers business customers high-speed Internet products on its fiber network in every major metro in the company’s 21-state footprint.

The AT&T fiber network provides the bandwidth needed to support data intensive services such as video, collaboration, cloud services and more through products such as Ethernet, Virtual Private Networking, Managed Internet Service, AT&T GigaPower^SM and AT&T Business Fiber. Customers can complement their high-speed Internet with network security options and online backup to help protect and virtualize their business-critical information.{ad}

“Our business customers continuously tell us that they need reliable network solutions to help them operate faster and with more agility. Our fiber network gives them the capabilities they need to support mission-critical business functions both now and in the future,” said Steve McGaw, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T Business Solutions.

What Customers are Saying

“AT&T’s business fiber service has made moving big files up and down our distribution channels faster than ever before. We had been waiting years for speeds this fast. Thank you AT&T!” said Matt Nies, President/Owner at Pixelbox Visual Design, a video production studio in the Midwest.

“We simply did not have the bandwidth needed to transition to electronic medical records,” said Denise Donofrio, Practice Manager at Primary Care Associates, a leading healthcare provider in Ohio. “AT&T fiber provides us with blazing fast speeds so we can access and manage records efficiently from any practice location.”

“Our customers expect certain amenities, like high-speed internet. It’s not an option. It has to be there and has to be reliable. They come from various industries such as banking, telecom, insurance and manufacturing,” said Bob Martin, Senior Property Manager from Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate investment company. “Having AT&T fiber run to our properties helps us meet the diverse networking needs our tenants have.”

For more information on AT&T Business Fiber, please visit http://www.corp.att.com/businessfiber.

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

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