AT&T’s ‘GigaPower’ Plays Nashville

AT&T has launched its fiber-based “GigaPower” service in portions of Nashville (TN) where the telecommunications company currently competes with Comcast, and an area that is also being targeted with gigabit speeds by Google Fiber. AT&T said its 1-Gig service is available in parts of Clarksville, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Smyrna and other surrounding communities in the Nashville metro area. In Nashville, AT&T’s stand-alone 1-Gig service starts at $120 per month, while a 100 Mbps offering begins at $90 per month, with a one-year price guarantee, if customers agree to participate in AT&T Internet Preferences, the companies targeted Web advertising program. AT&T has been applying a monthly data consumption policy to GigaPower that caps usage at 1-terabyte before charging $10 for each additional bucket of 50 Gigabytes, with a maximum monthly overage charge of $30.