AT&T Expands Access to Gigabit Speeds to Businesses across Georgia

Staff Report From Georgia CEO

Thursday, September 1st, 2016

AT&T is bringing gigabit internet speeds to even more businesses across Georgia. With AT&T Business Fiber, more businesses can download and upload up to 1 gigabit per second.

These locations are also being designated as AT&T Fiber Ready locations. The AT&T Fiber Ready designation allows property owners to more effectively highlight ready access to the high-speed infrastructure that businesses demand.

AT&T Business Fiber is now available at select locations in these communities and many others across Georgia:

  • Atlanta

  • Alpharetta

  • Dallas

  • Macon

  • Newnan

  • Douglasville

  • Savannah

  • Brunswick

  • Marietta

  • Athens

  • Duluth

  • Gainesville

  • Columbus

  • Lawrenceville

  • Hiram

  • Augusta

  • Pooler

  • Rome 

  • LaGrange

  • Valdosta

  • Warner Robins

  • Bainbridge

"For years, we have offered business customers gigabit connections. But through AT&T Business Fiber, we are speeding deployment of these high-speed connections to our business customers, offering fast and reliable network solutions to stay connected and competitive," said Bill Leahy, president of AT&T Georgia. "Georgia is a great state for business, and we are investing heavily in our fiber-optics infrastructure, deploying increased speeds to both business and residential consumers across the state."

With internet speeds up to 1Gbps businesses can:

  • Download 8,000 word processing documents in 1 second.

  • Download a 2-hour high definition video in 36 seconds.

  • Backup/restore 1 terabyte hard drive in 2.5 hours.

We're also launching nationwide U-verse Business Voice over AT&T Business Fiber. The voice over IP phone service delivers great sound quality and high reliability as calls travel over the internet. 

AT&T Invests in Georgia

AT&T has aggressively expanded its fiber footprint over the past few years, both to consumers and businesses. We have expanded coverage to reach over 1 million incremental business customer locations in the US, with over 60,000 of those in Georgia. We currently have around 1,300 multi-tenant office buildings that are live with AT&T Business Fiber in Georgia.  And we will continue to build out to keep pace with growing demand.

AT&T invested nearly $5.5 billion in our Georgia wireless and wireline networks from 2013 through 2015.