T-Mobile Launches Home Fiber Service in Manhattan (Yes, It’s Real)

T-Cellular has began promoting fiber landline web connections to no less than six buildings in Manhattan, PCMag realized right this moment.

Whereas the wi-fi service is aggressively selling its 5G home internet service, a tipster advised us that „throughout the previous few weeks,“ T-Cellular quietly launched a web site at t-mobilefiber.com to advertise its gigabit fiber service.

The service has one plan, at 940Mbps symmetrical, with an eero Pro 6 router included. The service is obtainable at „a flat month-to-month price,“ though the web site would not say what that price is.

T-Cellular confirmed that it is operating the undertaking, though not the particular variety of buildings concerned. The corporate mentioned in a press release:

„We lately launched a pilot program in choose Manhattan residential buildings to ship dwelling web over fiber-optic strains, utilizing an area fiber supplier’s fiber-optic community.

So T-Cellular is not operating its personal fiber strains right here; it is renting them from a competitor. Based on the company’s site, „T-Cellular Fiber’s Broadband Web Entry Providers are supplied over Pilot Fiber’s wired fiber-optic community.“

Based on a Reddit post on the subject, Pilot has redirected its getpilot.com Net tackle to T-Cellular. Pilot is a New York-based, enterprise fiber supplier that serves greater than 2,100 companies in 600 buildings, in line with that firm. One of many posters on the Reddit thread says Pilot’s residential service value them $60/month.

So what we’re seeing right here will not be an try by T-Cellular to interrupt into the fiber recreation the best way Google tried to (and then gave up.) Slightly, the corporate could also be testing the waters to see if its shopper advertising and marketing chops can mix with enterprise fiber suppliers‘ further capability to supply a partnered strategy to battle Verizon and AT&T. We’ll preserve an eye fixed out to see if this goes any additional.