AT&T's Smith: Our Austin 1 Gbps plan is not a response to Google Fiber

AT&T may have been one of the latest traditional service providers to reveal plans to launch a 1 Gbps fiber plan, specifically in the Austin, Texas market, but an executive maintains the carrier is not just responding to Google Fiber's move into the city. Speaking at the Jeffries 2013 Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Bill Smith, President of AT&T Network Operations, said the 1 Gbps plans had already been on the drawing board for a while.