AT&T is rolling out a new wireless service that its customers should neither expect nor want to use: a free Internet Backup for its fiber-optic residential broadband. Announced Monday, this promises an automatic cutover from a speedy wired connection to AT&T’s wireless network,

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The Internet Backup feature will automatically switch from fiber to a customer’s AT&T wireless plan during an outage for uninterrupted home internet.

AT&T has annoucned a new feature which uses AT&T's wireless network to provide a backup home internet in the event of a fiber outage.