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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.667px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">AT&amp;T hopes for 1 GB/second data over power lines</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Project AirGig</strong><span> </span>involves deploying low-cost plastic antennas along medium-voltage power lines as a means of propagating millimeter wave (mmWave) signals that can be used for 4G LTE and 5G multi-gigabit mobile and fixed deployments<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Converged Digest continues:<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">One of the new field trials is in the U.S. with Georgia Power, while the second trial is with an electricity provider located overseas.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">AT&amp;T says AirGig could one day deliver internet speeds well over 1 gigabit per second via a mmWave signal guided by power lines.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Project AirGig is part of our ongoing effort to accelerate internet connections to a gig or more through both wired and wireless solutions,” said Andre Fuetsch, president, AT&amp;T Labs and Chief Technology Officer. “But it also stands alone as a radically innovative solution to bridge the global digital divide. If these trials and our continued research and development turn out the way we intend, we’ll take a big step toward bringing hyper-fast connectivity to people everywhere.”<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Converged Digest<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.convergedigest.com/2017/12/at-cites-progress-with-project-airgig.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none">http://www.convergedigest.com/2017/12/at-cites-progress-with-project-airgig.html</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">AT&amp;T AirGig Georgia<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://engage.att.com/georgia/blog/?PostId=4671" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none">https://engage.att.com/georgia/blog/?PostId=4671</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

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