AT&T expands DSL service
New Washington residents will soon be able to receive DSL Internet service.
Officials from AT&T joined Clark County Commissioners Thursday to make the announcement.
The company’s High Speed to the Heartland initiative — which will be completed by early next year — will essentially bring digital subscriber line service to every central office in Indiana operated by AT&T. It’s a part of a $250 million plan the company announced earlier this year, which seeks to deliver next-generation broadband, video and voice services to its Indiana customers.
All of this, according to AT&T Indiana president George Fleetwood, is a product of a new telecommunications law the Indiana legislature passed in March — formally titled HB 1279.
AT&T along with other telecommunications, business and labor organization worked hard to lobby for the bill, Fleetwood said.
“I think it’s a really good thing for Hoosiers.”
The bill received bipartisan support. It came at the urging of Gov. Mitch Daniels, who during his State of the State address, called on the General Assembly to follow suit with at least 14 other state legislatures and update communications law.
The other 14 state updated their telecom laws in 2005. Indiana did so in 2006.
“Our new telecom law, the best in the country, is already producing results for Hoosiers: More choices for consumers and brighter economic prospects for our small towns,” Daniels said in a press release.
AT&T Indiana provides DSL to 46 rural communities. It hopes to increase that number to 79 by next year.
Commissioner Ed Meyer said he was pleased with the investment in Clark County.
“Residents of Sellersburg and Charlestown already enjoy access to DSL service,” he said. “Soon, residents in New Washington will also have this option available to them.”
Source: www.news-tribune.net
Officials from AT&T joined Clark County Commissioners Thursday to make the announcement.
The company’s High Speed to the Heartland initiative — which will be completed by early next year — will essentially bring digital subscriber line service to every central office in Indiana operated by AT&T. It’s a part of a $250 million plan the company announced earlier this year, which seeks to deliver next-generation broadband, video and voice services to its Indiana customers.
All of this, according to AT&T Indiana president George Fleetwood, is a product of a new telecommunications law the Indiana legislature passed in March — formally titled HB 1279.
AT&T along with other telecommunications, business and labor organization worked hard to lobby for the bill, Fleetwood said.
“I think it’s a really good thing for Hoosiers.”
The bill received bipartisan support. It came at the urging of Gov. Mitch Daniels, who during his State of the State address, called on the General Assembly to follow suit with at least 14 other state legislatures and update communications law.
The other 14 state updated their telecom laws in 2005. Indiana did so in 2006.
“Our new telecom law, the best in the country, is already producing results for Hoosiers: More choices for consumers and brighter economic prospects for our small towns,” Daniels said in a press release.
AT&T Indiana provides DSL to 46 rural communities. It hopes to increase that number to 79 by next year.
Commissioner Ed Meyer said he was pleased with the investment in Clark County.
“Residents of Sellersburg and Charlestown already enjoy access to DSL service,” he said. “Soon, residents in New Washington will also have this option available to them.”
Source: www.news-tribune.net
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