AT&T’s busy building open access networks with Gigapower and Forge Fiber 37

Gigapower, the joint venture between AT&T and Blackrock, has been kind of quiet, from a media perspective, for a while. But Amy Wheelus, chief technology and information officer with Gigapower, recently said the company is very busy building open-access fiber broadband networks. Wheelus said that Gigapower is actively building and operating networks in eight different markets in seven states across the U.S.: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Florida. All of these Gigapower networks are outside of AT&T’s footprint, as that was the whole point for AT&T to enter the JV and build broadband outside of its own territory.