AT&T announced on Thursday that Brentwood will be added to the list of St. Louis area cities with access to its fiber network internet, with speeds of one gigabit per second. Shrewsbury and Belleville are also being added.
Last month AT&T announced that Maplewood had access to the service, along with parts of Kirkwood, Swansea, Edwardsville, and Webster Groves.
In Maplewood the faster service option is approximately $70 a month.
In November 2016, AT&T began offering high-speed fiber internet — called AT&T Fiber — to parts of Maplewood, Kirkwood, Swansea, Edwardsville, and Webster Groves, the St. Louis Business Journal reported. AT&T expands the fiber service into areas where consumers demand it.
The faster internet — 1000 Mbps (millions of bits per second, or megabits per second) — allows downloading an entire high-definition movie in about 30 seconds, CBS St. Louis reported.
ATT tried to make this deal with Brentwood Forest a few months back, however, they needed access to EVERY condo unit to install some sort of permanent box in the wall of each condo. the board told them they could not grant access to private units, but ATT insisted this was required so the deal was DOA. Hopefully they changed their minds or found a different way to run the hardware, otherwise it appears Brentwood Forest will be left out.
I guess I will just keep using my semaphores for now. I find it faster than Charter data service. With 27m download and 14 m upload, I have a 14 year old dog that can run faster than that. Charter tells us the cable in the back of our home is over 35 years old. They tell you it’s fiber, but the coax on the poles is copper and filled with squirrel holes. After a heavy rain, you can see water running out of it. Bring back Crown Cable! They didn’t lie to you about having no pictures, no sound, no internet and about all the add-on’s on your cable bill. Even they can’t tell what the charges are for. This is just one of the many BIGGER is better, that means little or nothing to its customers. I have my landline (old type of phone) , my AM radio for the Cardinals games ,the USPS for mail and antenna TV. Let’s see, $8.50 for phone, $15 to UE for elec. for the radio & TV, and $.49 cents to send a letter. I also get to talk to my family without an iPhone in my face. If I need to know anything I can’t find in the dictionary, I just ask my grand kids.
For you non service people, ‘semaphore uses flags to spell out words’. Used in the NAVY, ARMY, AIR FORCE (ground units) and don’t forget the Boy Scouts.
Hopefully this comes to Richmond Heights soon.
Guess that’s why Charter just upped it’s lowest rate.
How do we figure how much data we use? Is there a meter or something
When will Maplewood get this service?
How do we figure out which parts of Maplewood qualify for this service?
does that mean we have to pay more for it?
In Maplewood it’s about $70/month.
It’s $70/mo for the 100/100 service with a 1TB data cap.
It’s $90/mo for the gigabit 1000/1000 service with no data cap whatsoever.
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