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AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint | AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite.

AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite.

"This is really good progress... however, without the full discontinuance of services across an entire wire center geography, we're unable to stop the maintenance, repair, and attack the more fixed infrastructure costs," she said. Many copper lines deteriorated because AT&T failed to do maintenance that would prevent lengthy outages and other troubles, a 2019 investigation by California state regulators found. Besides the 45 million existing and planned fiber locations, AT&T said its total fiber footprint by 2029 will include another 5 million or so locations through Gigapower, a joint venture with Blackrock, and agreements with commercial open-access providers.

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