{"id":235,"date":"2014-11-14T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:07:02","slug":"att-halts-fiber-rollout-in-response-to-net-neutrality-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Halts Fiber Rollout in Response to Net Neutrality Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s decision to come out in support of net neutrality this week sent shock waves through the industry, and one major carrier is responding with an unexpected new tactic.\u00a0<em>Reuters\u00a0<\/em>reports that AT&amp;T is temporarily pausing the expansion of its GiGaPower fiber network until the FCC makes an official ruling on net neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t go out and invest that kind of money deploying fiber to 100 cities not knowing under what rules those investments will be governed,\u201d AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson\u00a0said on Wednesday at a Wells Fargo conference. \u201cWe think it is prudent to just pause and make sure we have line of sight and understanding as to what those rules would look like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, AT&amp;T has been building out its fiber network as quickly as possible in an effort to compete with Google Fiber. The carrier actually beat Google to launch first in\u00a0Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and announced plans to cover up to 100 cities and municipalities across the country back in April. Now those plans are on hold.<\/p>\n<p>If companies like AT&amp;T, Verizon and Comcast get the \u201cfast lane\u201d system they want, a fiber-based network could be the perfect vehicle for premium Internet services. But if the FCC rules to protect the open Internet, AT&amp;T may not have a reason to invest its resources in GiGaPower moving forward.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/12\/us-at-t-regulations-internet-idUSKCN0IW1JC20141112?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=internetNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">REUTERS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s decision to come out in support of net neutrality this week sent shock waves through the industry, and one major carrier is responding with an unexpected new tactic.\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reports that AT&amp;T is temporarily pausing the expansion of its GiGaPower fiber network until the FCC makes an official ruling on net neutrality. \u201cWe can\u2019t go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile","tag-att","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}