AT&T U-verse with GigaPower, the telecom company's gigabit competitor to Google Fiber, is officially coming to Nashville.
Using an all-fiber network, AT&T's GigaPower service will offer download broadband speeds of up to one gigabit per second (or 1,000 megabits per second) and the network's "most advanced TV services to consumers," according to a news release. One gigabit per second is about 100 times faster than the average American Internet speed.
More information on availability, pricing and timing for the Nashville market will be announced at a later date, according to the news release.
The announcement comes less than four months after Nashville was included on a list of 100 candidate cities and municipalities for AT&T's gigabit network. Today's announcement only relates to Nashville and not any other Tennessee cities or municipalities, AT&T spokeswoman Cathy Lewandowski said, though other candidite areas in the state have not been ruled out.
"We are very pleased that AT&T has selected Nashville for its ultra-high speed fiber network,” Mayor Karl Dean said in the release. “This kind of technology is important to keep our city vibrant and attractive, and it is further proof of how Nashville is positioned as a city of the future. We look forward to working with AT&T as they bring this exciting new service to our residents.”
AT&T already offers GigaPower service in Austin, Texas, which is also slated to be one of the earliest recipients of Google's gigabit product, Google Fiber. Dallas-based AT&T also recently announced plans to roll out in Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding cities, and agreements have been reached in Raleigh-Durham and Winston-Salem, according to the release.
A few months before AT&T's initial announcement, Nashville was one of nine metro areas the California-based tech giant Google said it was considering for Fiber expansion, but a final announcement on Google's plans is not expected until closer to the end of the year.
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