AT&T U-verse → Re: Gigapower coming to Memphis, TN

March 2021, I spotted and spoke to crews stringing up Kate Bond area perimeter with fiber on poles, (Appling to the west, Stage Road to the north, Kate Bond Road to the east and Reese to the south, then hooked up customers east of Kate Bond, but not west towards Appling. Back then the crews said "a few months" before the service would go live...nope.

On Friday January 28th 2022, a subcontractor from Nashville asked to get into my backyard to survey the utility pole (pictures and GPS coordinates). He was polite and answered what questions he actually could.
Sadly no date to light up Kate Bond. He did imply the Countryside and Kate Bond neighborhoods will be lit up at the same time when AT&T is ready to do so. There is quite a bit of work to string up each home I'm guessing before that actually happens. For now I'm living with T-Mobile's 5G internet that works, but is no where near as rock solid as AT&T DSL was before switching.

I did have the U-verse service, but dropped TV when the costs kept going up and up. I dropped internet from AT&T DSL when T-Mobile offered unlimited internet (no data cap, no contract) for $50. That sure beat the bananas $80/month (plus taxes and fees, ouch) for slow poke 45Mbps DSL, which was okay until I started working from home. Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx meetings plus kiddo's gaming and wife streaming TV revealed that old DSL just can't cut it in 2021.

I filled out AT&T's address research request form for fiber, but still haven't heard back yet. Sometime this year I hope.

Doesn't that wireless connection slow down significantly due to congestion during peak usage hours? I would think it would. This is one reason why I won't go to any kind of fixed wireless that and latency issues.

It really would only cost you $50 to find out if T-Mobile 5G Home Internet meets your needs. You get 15 days and a no questions refund if you dont' like the service before 15 days are up. Or you could just keep it 29 days and then cancel if it does not meet your needs. Not much risk if it provides service for you over your "old" copper service.

Unlimited data and depending on the neighborhood if they plan correctly for business needs during the day and Home users at night is balances or at least it has here in Sf in the T-Mobile 5G Home Internet areas.

It seems that T-mobile engineers are planning ahead for their customer usage patterns.

»www.t-mobile.com/isp

Dave