U.S. telecom giant AT&T Communications announced that its 850MHz 5G network now reaches 290 million people in nearly 24,000 cities and towns in the United States. Meanwhile, the telco's mid-band (3.7GHz) 5G network reaches 150 million people. In addition, millimeter-wave (mmWave)-based "5G+" connectivity is available in select areas of more than 50 cities and at nearly 70 venues and airports. AT&T said its mobile network now covers a total area of more than 2.91 million square miles - with an additional 100,000 square miles to be added by 2022.
In terms of fixed broadband access, AT&T's fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network now covers 24 million locations in more than 100 metropolitan areas - including 4 million business locations - and is on track to cover 30 million locations by the end of 2025. Fiber is our foundation," the telco noted. In fact, we have so much fiber that you could pull it to the moon and back three times. In 2022, we're laying more than 60,000 miles of fiber in the United States alone. All of that fiber helps carry an average of more than 594 petabytes (PB) of data traffic per day, a 23 percent increase year-over-year.
Finally, AT&T said it increased coverage on federally recognized tribal lands by more than 40 percent in two years from 2020 to 2022, including the Cherokee Tribe of Kenwood, Oklahoma, where people previously had to drive more than 10 miles to get cell phone service.
