- During its first quarter 2026, AT&T counted 239,000 net new Internet Air additions
- Now, the company is adding Internet Air to its home broadband affordability program
- And Internet Air is helping AT&T to transition people off legacy DSL services
AT&T’s long-running Access from AT&T program, which assists low-income customers with home broadband, has added its fixed wireless access (FWA) service to the mix. It's giving eligible customers a $25 discount off the regular $60-per-month price for the FWA service AT&T Internet Air.
Access from AT&T has previously offered eligible households discounts on fiber and DSL services. The company says it’s adding Internet Air to celebrate 10 years of Access from AT&T and to bring internet to “millions of additional low-income households in areas where the service is available.”
Josh Goodell, AT&T’s VP of Broadband and Converged Products, said in a statement, “This expansion using Internet Air matters because in many communities, wired home internet is not yet available, and this gives families a new way to get online using the fast and reliable AT&T 5G network.”
Access from AT&T offers eligibility through 18 federal need-based assistance programs.
A win-win for AT&T
During its first quarter 2026, AT&T counted 239,000 net new Internet Air additions. And company executives indicated that Internet Air is not only helping AT&T to expand its customer base, but it’s also helping the company transition off legacy DSL services.
AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches said, “We stopped taking new orders for legacy services last year in most of our wireline footprint, and we now have approval to discontinue legacy services in more than 30% of our wire centers. We're actively working with customers in these areas and helping them upgrade to more advanced services like Internet Air.”
AT&T CEO John Stankey added, “We're getting some lift from Internet Air and the ability to converge both wireless and Internet Air with new customers on a combined basis. And we're being more specific in targeting where we know we will have fiber in the future, so that we can grow that customer base today and ultimately meet them with a very, very good offering over time.”
In a new FWA report from Wave7 Research, analyst Jeff Moore said, “Promotion of AT&T Internet Air at AT&T stores remains modest, and it is not sold at Walmart.” But he noted that AT&T continues to have flyers at some of its stores, pitching AT&T Internet Air at $47/month, a discount of 20% from the regular $60/month price. However, this discount requires a new customer to also sign up for AT&T’s wireless service.
AT&T Internet Air customers, in general, may be seeing download speeds up to 55% faster, following AT&T’s integration of additional mid-band spectrum from EchoStar, the operator has said.