MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. – More residents in Montgomery County near Clarksville and east of Indian Mound now have access to high-speed Internet services with the expansion of AT&T1 U-verse® High Speed Internet to more than 480 new locations in the area.
AT&T is making the Internet service available to area consumers and small businesses.
“I am thankful for the work being done by our state and local elected officials as they strive to remove barriers to broadband deployment in Tennessee,” said Melinda Shepard, executive director of the Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce. “This kind of investment is vitally important as our communities continue to grow and develop.”
AT&T has invested more than $1.2 billion in wireless and wired networks in Tennessee between 2012 and 2014.
As a result of significant investments from private communications companies like AT&T, the vast majority of Tennesseans – 99.1% according to the FCC – now have access to high-speed Internet. Any remaining gap is found in what the FCC calls “high cost” areas. Recognizing the importance of ensuring access in these limited remaining areas, the FCC’s Connect America Fund (CAF) was created to provide incentives specifically to address this need.
In August AT&T announced plans to participate in the CAF program to extend connectivity to additional locations in mainly rural areas of Tennessee over the next five years. As a result more than 81,000 rural customers in Tennessee will have expanded access to AT&T’s network, with a majority of these areas having access to a high-speed home Internet connection for the first time.
Some customers in the Montgomery County area may also be eligible for AT&T U-verse TV service.
Geographic and service restrictions apply to AT&T U-verse services. For additional information on AT&T U-verse — or to find out if it’s available in your neighborhood — visit www.att.com/u-verse.