AT&T Wholesale Fiber Deal with Frontier “will aid its efforts to deploy 5G”

By B.N. Frank

Reviews have indicated that 4G service is still more private, reliable and secure than 5G (see 1, 2, 3). Additionally, specific cybersecurity (see 1, 2), privacy (see 1, 2, 3), public safety (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), health (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) economic, and environmental risks (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) have been associated with 5G. In fact, lawsuits have been filed against deployment on Earth (see 1, 2, 3, 4) and in space.

Nevertheless, the 5G rollout continues in the U.S. (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) including at military bases. Deployment sometimes includes the installation of fiber for 5G which is also extremely dangerous (see 1, 2). Verizon has been installing it. AT&T has been as well.

From Fierce Telecom:

AT&T strikes wholesale fiber deal with Frontier to chase enterprise gains

AT&T inked a multi-year fiber connectivity deal with Frontier Communications, aiming to improve its ability to meet the needs of large enterprise customers with locations outside its existing footprint.

Announcing the deal, AT&T highlighted Frontier’s recently unveiled plan to expand its fiber network to a total of 4 million locations passed by the end of 2021 and 10 million by 2025. While 9 million business locations are already within 1,000 feet of AT&T’s fiber, it noted the new agreement will allow it to serve enterprise customers within Frontier’s 25-state footprint in “markets where it does not own a fiber network or currently plan to build one.”

An AT&T representative told Fierce the deal also includes “modifications of existing AT&T/Frontier wholesale agreements that improve the ability of Frontier to expand its network through AT&T Ethernet and Fiber connections.”

Scott Mair, AT&T’s president of network engineering and operations, said in a statement “with Frontier building out its own fiber network where we are not building, we’ll be able to work together to provide large business customers with the high-speed, low-latency data connectivity they need to grow and thrive.”

Additionally, AT&T said the deal with Frontier will aid its efforts to deploy 5G. Specifically, it said it plans to use Frontier’s Ethernet network to improve connectivity between cell towers and the core network. The AT&T representative told Fierce “We will be able get 5G faster and sooner to our customers in many areas where we will use Frontier network.”

Analysts at New Street Research noted Frontier management recently mentioned the expected repricing of a wholesale customer (without naming AT&T) and tipped the deal to be a boon for its wholesale business over the longer term. Though Frontier’s wholesale revenue is expected to fall year-on-year through the middle of 2022 due to the repricing move, the increased volume associated with the deal should ultimately “help return wholesale revenues to growth in 2H22,” they said.

“While the impact of this deal is tough to quantify, it should help engender confidence in return to growth for wholesale revenues” and, by extension, “a return to consolidated EBITDA growth by the end of next year,” New Street’s analysts concluded.

In 2019, telecom executives gave U.S. congressional testimony that they had NO independent studies proving that 5G is safe.

Later in 2019, then presidential candidate Joe Biden was confronted with this information and said

WATCH: A woman in Iowa tells @JoeBiden the 5G in the area is making people sick and their "minds are breaking down."

Biden replies: "There is a lot of debate in the scientific community of whether or not 5G does what you are saying. It should be studied thoroughly…" @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/dE2xVivS86

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) December 29, 2019

So far, there has been no indication that anyone in now President Biden’s administration has ordered 5G be “studied thoroughly”. Of course, there are health and environmental risks associated with 4G and other sources of wireless radiation too (see 1, 2, 3). However, cities AND entire countries have taken action to ban, delay, halt, and limit 5G installation AS WELL AS issue moratoriums because of the numerous particular risks associated with this technology.

Earlier this year, scientists submitted a letter to President Biden asking him to protect the public from 5G and other unsafe technology. Instead he committed to adding more.

Americans opposed to any or all of this may

click here to sign a letter asking the Biden administration to stop 5G deployment
click here to contact their legislators and ask for protection from unsafe levels of wireless radiation (Bluetooth, cell phone, Wi-Fi, 5G, 6G, etc.)

Since 2017 doctors and scientists have been asking for 5G moratoriums on Earth and in space (see 1, 2) and the majority of scientists oppose deployment. Since 2018 there have been reports of people and animals experiencing symptoms and illnesses after 5G was activated (see 1, 2, 3, 4).