What’s new: In Texas, we invested nearly $12.9 billion in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility.
Cities and communities throughout Texas are seeing the impacts of this investment, including:
- Nearly $110 million in Amarillo
- Nearly $1.1 billion in Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown
- Nearly $15 million in Bay City
- Nearly $100 million in Beaumont-Port Arthur
- More than $3.5 million in Borger
- More than $15 million in Brenham
- More than $80 million in Brownsville-Harlingen
- More than $35 million in College Station-Bryan
- More than $130 million in Corpus Christi
- Nearly $4 billion in Dallas County
- Nearly $2 billion in the City of Dallas
- More than $6.1 billion in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
- More than $7 million in Del Rio
- More than $2.4 million in Dumas
- More than $225 million in El Paso
- More than $1.5 billion in Harris County
- More than $4.9 million in Hereford
- Nearly $2.2 billion in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land
- More than $35 million in Huntsville
- More than $70 million in Killeen-Temple
- More than $60 million in Laredo
- More than $1.3 million in Levelland
- Nearly $60 million in Longview
- More than $130 million in Lubbock
- More than $9.8 million in Lufkin
- Nearly $150 million in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission
- Nearly $150 million in Midland
- Nearly $25 million in Nacogdoches
- More than $60 million in Odessa
- More than $4.6 million in Pampa
- More than $260 million in the Panhandle Region
- More than $4.2 million in Plainview
- More than $1.6 million in Raymondville
- Nearly $230 million in the Rio Grande Valley Region
- More than $8.1 million in Rio Grande City-Roma
- Nearly $15 million in San Angelo
- More than $1 billion in San Antonio-New Braunfels
- Nearly $45 million in Tyler
- More than $5.9 million in Uvalde
- Nearly $35 million in Victoria
- More than $60 million in Waco
- Nearly $30 million in Wichita Falls
Why it matters: Every American deserves access to fast, reliable connectivity when it matters most – whether it’s an important call to a family member or friend, the internet that powers work or online learning, or the connection that first responders rely on. It’s this connectivity that’s powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America.
Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide.
How we’re making it happen in Texas: Committed to expanding connectivity, our investment focuses on all facets of the network — including fiber, 5G and FirstNet,® Built with AT&T.
- Expanding Access to Fiber: To help meet the demands for reliable, high-speed connections today – and in the future – we’re investing in our fiber network. In late 2024, we announced an ambitious new goal of reaching more than 50 million locations with fiber by the end of 2029 and that work is already underway.
- With more than 18.5 million strand miles of fiber miles in Texas, AT&T Fiber® is now available to more than 5.2 million customer locations in more than 350 communities.
- With nearly 91 million fiber strand miles in 21 states, AT&T Fiber® now passes nearly 29 million consumer and business locations.
- When public entities team up with trusted providers, more Americans are connected to greater opportunity. In Texas, we’ve collaborated with localities to bring AT&T Fiber to more corners of the state.
- AT&T has been selected to expand AT&T Fiber to more than 1,000 residential locations in El Paso County, including 57 colonias, as part of a more than $3.9 million public-private project. Read more.
- Through a public/private partnership, the City of Amarillo and AT&T broke ground on a $24 million project that will provide an innovative fiber internet connection to 22,000 homes across the city. Read more.
- AT&T and the City of San Antonio launched a multi-million-dollar investment to provide AT&T Fiber to more than 20,000 customer locations. In 2023, the City of San Antonio awarded AT&T the Digital Connectivity in Underserved Areas project, and this expansion is a direct reflection of that award. Read more.
- Building Networks for the Next Century: To reach our goal and better serve our customers with faster, more reliable services, we’re actively investing to modernize our networks that will power us for the next century, not the last one. We’re working to exit our legacy copper network operations across the large majority of our wireline footprint by the end of 2029. Throughout this transition, no customer will lose voice or 911 services. We developed products like AT&T Phone-Advanced, a digital phone service that uses our reliable wireless network and any broadband connection, as a reliable alternative to plain old telephone service (POTS).
- Today, AT&T Phone-Advanced is available in over 100 markets across 21 states, including Texas and will continue to expand to other markets and states across the country.
- Unlocking the Power of 5G: From rural communities to urban areas, our overall wireless voice and data network covers more than 99% of all Americans, including Texas. Our 5G network using low-band spectrum reaches more than 310 million people in more than 26,100 cities and towns in the U.S.
- We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.
- We’re ramping up performance in high traffic areas, like airports, stadiums and venues, including Dallas Love Field Airport; Austin-Bergstrom International Airport; AT&T Stadium in Arlington; the American Airlines Center and Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, the Toyota Center, NRG Stadium and Minute Maid Park in Houston, the AT&T Center in San Antonio, and the Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock.
- For less densely populated areas like Raymondville and Monahans, we’re expanding our 5G network so people there can have access to reliable connectivity.
- And we’re also working with AST SpaceMobile to one day offer voice, data, text and video services in remote, off-grid locations.
- We also launched AT&T Internet Air, our fixed wireless home internet service delivered over our 5G network, an all-in-one device that powers strong Wi-Fi coverage in your home.
- Unprecedented Connectivity for First Responders: As public safety’s partner, we are bringing better connectivity to public safety when — and where — they need it. Now with more than 2.99M square miles of coverage, FirstNet has the largest network footprint in the country, covering more first responders than competing commercial networks, and we are only continuing to grow. As part of our 10-year, $8B+ investment initiative with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) to transform public safety’s communications, we’ve completed the buildout of 1,000 new FirstNet sites across the country – well ahead of schedule and almost twice as fast as we pledged – providing first responders with dedicated connectivity on public safety’s Band 14 spectrum. And we’re continuing to expand FirstNet with purpose-built FirstNet sites — based on public safety’s direct feedback and network considerations — focused on rural, tribal and remote areas of the country.
- In Texas, we’re connecting public safety agencies and organizations in nearly 1,570 localities across the state, including El Paso, McAllen and Corpus Christi.
- We’ve rolled out Band 14 on nearly 5,800 sites across Texas to provide public safety with truly dedicated coverage and capacity.
And we’re not just investing in our network, we’re also investing in our communities. AT&T announced last year it’s committing an additional $3 billion by 2030 to help close the digital divide, bringing the company’s total commitment to $5 billion since 2021.
- In the summer of 2024, AT&T launched H-Town’s Summer of Connectivity, visiting neighborhoods across Houston to expand digital resources and connections. In all, we distributed over 900 laptops and 300 backpacks with school supplies to residents across the greater Houston area as part of our effort to help bridge the digital divide and expand opportunities for more Texans.
- In total, AT&T has distributed more than 23,000 computers to students and their families across Texas since 2021. Read more.
Good news is always great to share. Here are a few highlights from the last year in Texas:
- Summer 2024 | AT&T partnered with Puede Network to equip students in Dallas with 600 laptops and backpacks for the school year as part of the company’s $5 billion effort to bridge the digital divide. Learn more.
- June 2024 | AT&T and the City of San Antonio gathered for a “Block Party” event to celebrate their new partnership that will launch AT&T Fiber® service in new areas across the city. As part of the celebration, AT&T and Human-I-T provided 100 refurbished laptops to SA Digital Connects for distribution to students and families in San Antonio. Learn more.
- December 2024 | In a continued effort to minimize the digital divide in the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas College and AT&T hosted their third distribution of laptops to 100 deserving students in Starr County. Learn more.
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