Google Fiber for US?! (Durham, Cary: legal, health, building)

[Grizzmeister]

AT&T's 1 gigabit fiber Internet coming to Raleigh - NBC News

The City of Raleigh and AT&T have reached an agreement that will bring
AT&T’s fiber Internet to Raleigh as part of the North Carolina Next
Generation Network initiative. The agreement was announced Wednesday
morning.

[RDUBiker]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Sherifftruman]

Ha, I thought the exact same thing. They are already telling the feds that they will invest money in upgrading all these places if and only if they let them buy DirecTV. Maybe we are on a list that gets done either way, but all I have ever gotten from ATT was promises and no action.

[RDUBiker]

Originally Posted by Sherifftruman

Ha, I thought the exact same thing. They are already telling the feds that they will invest money in upgrading all these places if and only if they let them buy DirecTV. Maybe we are on a list that gets done either way, but all I have ever gotten from ATT was promises and no action.

Also keep in mind, many of us aren't serviced by AT&T. So even if they actually come through, that does some of us absolutely no good.

[Sherifftruman]

Originally Posted by RDUBiker

Also keep in mind, many of us aren't serviced by AT&T. So even if they actually come through, that does some of us absolutely no good.

But they signed an agreement to serve "Raleigh". You don't think they will let those pesky service areas dictate it do you?

[chris75]

Originally Posted by RDUBiker

Also keep in mind, many of us aren't serviced by AT&T. So even if they actually come through, that does some of us absolutely no good.

I thought that AT&T provided phone service to all of Raleigh. What other LEC's are operating there?

[NYC2RDU]

All of these carriers and providers are bringing us all sorts of high speed Internet; does anyone care to wager when we'll actually see something reach our homes?

[Grizzmeister]

Originally Posted by chris75

I thought that AT&T provided phone service to all of Raleigh. What other LEC's are operating there?

CenturyLink is the local exchange carrier in the part of North Raleigh I live in but I use Time Warner Cable as my ISP because they provide an overall better service.

[greg5green]

Originally Posted by chris75

I thought that AT&T provided phone service to all of Raleigh. What other LEC's are operating there?

Don't think it matters since they've said they would do Durham as well (Frontier land)

[darrix]

keep in mind --> AT&T Makes Same Empty Merger Promise For Decade, Nobody Notices | DSLReports, ISP Information

And if it ever happens, I believe this will be capped...