Fiber internet

Does a pedestal or hand hole exist for you or your immediate neighbors?

can the houses to left and right have fiber availability?

If not the fiber is going elsewhere, may be for cell tower, business, government, school or a different neighborhood down the road?

There are many miles of fiber ran, only fiber that is designated for residential could be run to a house and then the house must be within the planned fiber deployment. Example if city lots, fiber might be for six block by six block area, if you’re not within that area no fiber unless a future deployment expands to include your address. Across the street, around the corner, does not matter if address is not covered by existing design / deployment.

https://about.att.com/story/2023/expands-5g-and-fiber.html

Nationwide Coverage Surpasses 2.91 Million Square Miles; Tribal Land Coverage Increases by 40% in Last 2 Years

What’s the news? From Fiber to 5G, AT&T* has hit significant network milestones that are aggressively expanding coverage, increasing capacity and strengthening network resiliency. Over the past 5 years (2018–2022), AT&T invested more than $140 billionprimarily in our U.S. wireless and wireline networks, including capital investments and acquisitions of wireless spectrum.1

Building a network for tomorrow: Fiber is our foundation. In fact, we have so much fiber that you could stretch it to the moon and back 3 times. In 2022, we laid more than 60,000 miles of fiber in the U.S. alone. All that fiber helps carry more than 594 petabytes of data traffic on an average day, up 23% year-over-year (or the equivalent of streaming nearly 40 million 2-hour long movies in HD).

And as the nation’s largest fiber internet provider,6 we’re committed to providing more Americans with access to reliable, high-speed broadband. This is critical as people are consuming roughly 30 times more data in their own homes than on the go with smartphones. Currently, AT&T Fiber is available to more households than any other fiber internet service.6 And we’ve passed 24 million locations – including 4 million business locations – in 100+ U.S. metros7 – that’s on track to pass 30+ million locations by the end of 2025.

There is a pedestal across the street from me and an AT&T facility half a block from my house. Not sure if the house next to me has internet, it's unoccupied most of the year.

https://www.att.com/internet/availability/

you can check your address, neighbors to left and right addresses and addresses across the street using individual checks.

If any address qualifies for FTTP will show internet 300 or above available.

If best speed available is 100 or less (75, 50, 25, 18, 10, 5, 3, 1.5, .76) then not direct fiber.

It might just be a master transport line that’s cross connecting two streets. It doesn’t necessarily mean your particular address has the service available for installation.