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The fastest they offer me is 25/3 and it was more like 15/.5 . Then they add the fee requiring their equipment. I have a business customer that has to reboot their AT&T equipment every few days because it quits handing out DHCP.
 
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I'm happy for the ten people who will be able to take advantage of this.

I'll keep rockin' my 500Mbps service from Google Fiber w/ no issues. Had the 1Gbps service for awhile, but since we use nearly everything on WiFi it was a waste of money.
 
Meanwhile in high price Switzerland...
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Thats about 70$ per month. And it is just normal ethernet, no XGSPON shenanigans...
 
They are finally getting in compliance with FCC bill transparency order but I wonder if it's only for new customers. we all are still paying the equipment fee as they force us to use their gateways.
 
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Unfortunately they cherry pick the neighborhoods they deploy to. I live in Madison, WI where we've had AT&T fiber for several years. Most people I know do not live in a service area.
 
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your country is a fraction of the size, infrastructure costs are much more in the US due to the shear size of deployments and maintenance needed.
Larger country with more customers = more revenue, too. Of course it's easier in smaller, denser countries, but the U.S. is still a disaster for broadband. AT&T is just now rolling out 21st century speeds and they're charging two to three times what they would in an open market.
 
Expensive, but would be cool to be able to stream uncompressed (4K blu-ray quality) movies with the best audio/visuals. As is, I'm barely taking advantage of a single Gigabit.
 
Like others have said, I have a pretty big home network. I just logged into my firewall and I currently have 36 active devices, and that's with everyone out of the house minus 1 sick kid and our nanny. We're a blended family with 7 kids, kids that have grown up with a dad in the IT field. So we have a production level firewall with multiple subnets. Things like smart lights and switches, watches, etc and various crap on a IOT network, an office subnet where I have a site to site VPN for business use to our office, a standard subnet (computers, iPads, etc), and a Guest network. Anyway, we see a baseline load when everyone is home on a weekend of about 30mb/s...which spikes to a few hundred from time to time or when some new game is loaded or if a backup is happening. We use between 2.5 and 3TB per month of transfer. Couldn't imagine someone "needing" 5 gig at home, unless you're running a NAS across the open Internet. LOL. Heck, I have a symmetrical Gig circuit here at the office that supports 286 people and we don't saturate that.

On edit: With all that being said, this is all marketing. If they have the infrastructure, they'll advertise it because we live in a society where bigger and more is better, even if someone can't use it. Just once though I'd prefer them spend their time rolling out full gig to the rest of the country and not concentrate on bragging rights for small sections of cities. I'd also like to see increased upload bandwidth. It seems that many are getting 300mb/s+ download but only 5-10 upload. Yeah, for streaming upload is irrelevant, but general network performance will benefit from more upload speed.
 
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I've been fortunate enough to have AT&T Fiber at my current home for the last 4 years. Its easily the best product AT&T has at the moment. I have the entire house wired for ethernet, and any device that can be hard wired to the network, is wired in. Both my wife and I work from home, and I work in the design/media space, so fast connectivity is crucial for what I do. I am currently paying $100 a month for the 1gbps and its fantastic. I am not sure I can justify the 5gbps speed, but the extra $10 to double my speed is a no brainer.
 
My only concern is, how do you find those 100 gb files to download everyday for home networks? All streaming services are highly optimized. You’d have no issues even at 100 mbps or lower. May be gamers need this? Or small businesses??
The only benefit to gamers is that they could download a 70 gigabyte game in 2 minutes instead of 10 minutes.
So maybe once a month that additional speed could provide a small benefit.
It probably costs the service provider about the same to offer 5Gbps as 1Gbps, because the total amount transferred isn’t likely to change much.
 
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I have AT&T's 300 Mbps fiber, downgraded after trying 1 Gbps for a couple of months. My family of couldn't stress the network to a point where we would benefit from 1 Gbps.

That isn't to say others wouldn't benefit, but before spending more money, one should understand what their true needs are. If everyone is on Wi-Fi, you probably can't get much faster than 700 Mbps even with the best Wi-Fi router.
The point of these new higher speed plans is so AT&T can eliminate their lower speed plans and then charge us more.

When AT&T rolled out fiber to my area a few years ago, there were 3 plans: 100, 300, and 1000 Mbps. The plans now are 300, 500, and 1000 Mbps, and the lower speed plans are more than before.

When I signed up for the 300 Mbps plan, I got it for $45/mo. I just checked right now and it's $60/mo ($55/mo with autopay and paperless billing) for new subscribers.

At some point, the 300 Mbps plan will be eliminated and AT&T will do us a favor and automatically "upgrade" us to their 500 Mbps plan ($70/mo or $65/mo with autopay and paperless billing).
 
My only concern is, how do you find those 100 gb files to download everyday for home networks? All streaming services are highly optimized. You’d have no issues even at 100 mbps or lower. May be gamers need this? Or small businesses??

P2P traffic, private streaming, server synchronization, backup, cloud drive, security feed, etc.
 
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In one way and only one way it’s like xfiinity and their fiber. It’s great if you can get it. Still spoty coverage. That often doesn’t make sense why it’s some place and not others.But if you can get it. It’s great.
 
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