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   AT&T stops connecting new DSL users; only 28% of AT&T territory has full   
   fiber.   
      
   Jon Brodkin   
      
   AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home Internet to less than 30 percent of   
   the households in its 21-state territory, according to a new report that   
   says AT&T has targeted wealthy, non-rural areas in its fiber upgrades.   
      
   The report, co-written by an AT&T workers union and an advocacy group,   
   is timely, being issued just a few days after AT&T confirmed it will   
   stop connecting new customers to its aging DSL network. That does not   
   mean customers in DSL areas will get fiber, because AT&T last year said   
   it was mostly done expanding its fiber service. AT&T said at the time   
   that it would only expand fiber incrementally, in areas where it makes   
   financial sense for AT&T to do so. We'll provide more detail on the DSL   
   cutoff later in this article - in short, the fiber/copper hybrid   
   known as AT&T Internet is still offered to new customers, but the slower   
   product that AT&T sells under the DSL name is being discontinued except   
   for existing customers.   
      
   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/life-in-atts-slow-la   
   e-millions-left-without-fiber-as-company-kills-dsl/   
      
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