AT&T has extended its fixed wireless access (FWA) services to businesses as part of its plan to provide centralized connectivity options to remote areas without fiber.
AT&T Internet Air for Business can be installed by a company's own staff and can provide 4G and 5G connectivity, he said. The standard price is $60 per month plus fees, but the carrier said data speeds may be temporarily throttled if the network is congested.
Premium pricing of $100 per month plus fees prioritizes the first 250 GB of data used before any throttles are applied.
Existing customers with unlimited wireless business rates can add FWA service for $30 per month plus fees.
“Customers are telling us they need diverse connectivity options and the ability to quickly connect to new locations to grow their companies,” said Mike Troiano, senior vice president of products and pricing at AT&T Business. “They are increasingly willing to adopt an integrated connectivity approach.”
The company has been slower to introduce its FWA service compared to rivals T-Mobile US and Verizon, but it will launch the consumer service in August 2023, and CEO John Stankey said in a recent earnings conference that it will launch its FWA service in 2024. He said he will be more active in this area in 2020. Move away from copper-based networks.
AT&T ended 2023 with just over 93,000 FWA subscribers, T-Mobile with 4.8 million, and Verizon with just over 3 million.