DETROIT – AT&T announced Wednesday a new U-verse High Speed Internet service for Detroit businesses ? AT&T Business Fiber ? that provides businesses operating in AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings with fast broadband speeds.

The new Internet service will offer upload and download speeds ? over AT&T?s high speed fiber network ? up to 300 Mbps initially, with future plans to offer speeds up to 1 Gbps.

AT&T Business Fiber is the first new service introduced under the company?s Fiber to the Building program, which is part of Project Velocity IP. The project includes plans to reach more than 1 million additional business customer locations with fiber in AT&T?s wireline service area. To date, AT&T has deployed fiber to more than 8,000 business customer locations across Detroit.

In addition to Detroit, the new high speed Internet service is available to more than 16,000 businesses located in AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings in Austin, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; Indianapolis; Sacramento, Calif.; and Orlando, Fla.

AT&T Business Fiber offers multiple benefits, including:

Symmetric and asymmetric speeds ranging from 25 Mbps ? 300 Mbps, with future plans to reach 1 Gbps;

Bandwidth that supports business critical applications such as cloud, backup, storage, video conferencing, and more;

No signed contracts;

Firewall protection via a Fiber Broadband Gateway device;

Prices starting as low as $50 per month for 25 Mbps asymmetric service.

In addition to AT&T Business Fiber, businesses in AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings have access to an expanded array of security, network services, such as Internet and private networking, and cloud-based services, all of which ride on the fiber network. Specifically, companies in these buildings can more quickly and efficiently perform such tasks as:

Uploading and downloading large data files and images;

Sharing large files with employees or customers in other locations;

Uploading edits to company websites;

Backing up data remotely in the cloud at one or multiple locations; and Videoconferencing with suppliers, business partners and customers.

For more information about AT&T Business Fiber, please visit http://www.corp.att.com/businessfiber.