AT&T halts fiber build-out until net neutrality rules are sorted
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/12/ATT-halt-fiber-network/
AT&T is putting the brakes on its gigabit fiber internet service. CEO
Randall Stephenson revealed this morning that the company will halt
the rollout of the network, which launched in Austin last year, until
it has solid net neutrality rules to follow. "We can't go out and
invest that kind of money deploying fiber to 100 cities not knowing
under what rules those investments will be governed," he said.
Stephenson's statement almost feels like a threat. If AT&T -- one of
the companies that's lobbied the hardest against net neutrality since
2005 -- can't get its way, then the dream of blazing fast fiber will
jut have to wait. And it's not the first contentious statement from
AT&T this week: It swiftly came out against President Obama's pro-net
neutrality remarks on Monday and threatened to sue the FCC. AT&T
senior executive vice president Jim Cicconi, ever the dramatist, said
that if the FCC followed Obama's suggestions it would be "a mistake
that will do tremendous harm to the internet and to U.S. national
interests."
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Yep, sure sounds like a typical AT&T threat to me. But given all the
times they've promised broadband deployments, obtained tax and other
concessions, and then never actually built the promised systems --
WHAT THE HELL IS NEW?
--Lauren--
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