AT&T Expands Fiber Footprint to About 2 Million Business Locations

AT&T has boosted its fiber footprint to over 1.1 million route miles of fiber globally, and is connecting over 1.8 million business customer locations with AT&T Fiber across the US.

Adding thousands of buildings monthly, the operator is now providing fiber to 400,000 US business buildings and has 8 million business customer locations on or within 1,000 ft. of its fiber. (See AT&T Increases Lead as Largest US-Based Provider of Fiber for Businesses Nationwide.)

"Fiber accelerates everything that businesses need to digitally transform. Without fiber, innovative solutions like highly-secure networking, cloud computing and 5G wouldn't be possible," said Mo Katibeh, chief marketing officer for AT&T Business, in the release. "As we continue to expand our national fiber network, we want businesses to take full advantage of our fiber highway that is essentially right to their doorstep."

AT&T Business Fiber delivers speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s. As more businesses migrate to the cloud, and use collaborative technology like video conferencing, high-speed connections are increasingly central to driving business operations.

AT&T claims to have the largest fiber footprint of US-based operators. As of December 2017, AT&T connected 7 million locations with fiber, and aims to reach 12.5 million locations by mid-2019. (See AT&T VP: Fiber Is at 'Core of Our Network'.)

— Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Senior Editor, Light Reading