The recognition validates AT&T’s massive fiber investment, promising market share gains and higher profit margins as consumers prioritize faster, more reliable home internet.
AT&T announced that its fiber broadband service has been crowned the nation’s best and fastest home internet by UCLA’s inaugural Best Home Internet award, underscoring a decade‑long capital push into fiber after earlier media acquisitions.
The accolade marks the fourth straight year AT&T ranks fastest in speed tests, and a survey shows 47 % of U.S. consumers would switch providers for a faster connection. The company’s recent Lumen acquisition broadens its footprint to 32 states, positioning it to add millions of new addresses.
Executives highlighted that a new customer signs up for AT&T Fiber roughly every 30 seconds, and the firm has set an ambitious target to have fiber available to 60 million homes by 2030 – a milestone no rival has pledged.
If achieved, the rollout could cement AT&T’s dominance in residential broadband, pressure competitors to accelerate their own fiber builds, and generate significant recurring revenue as households migrate from legacy copper and cable services.
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