AT&T announced Monday that it will begin offering its super-high speed GigaPower broadband service in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose beginning next year. The service offers speeds of up to a gigabit per second. That’s about 20 times speedier than the fastest residential Internet service AT&T currently offers and about four times faster than the speediest service available through Comcast, which is the Bay Area’s dominant broadband provider.
With hundreds of thousands of drones expected to be purchased nationwide this holiday season, frightening encounters like the recent one when a California Highway Patrol pilot’s sharp maneuver avoided a crash in Contra Costa County skies are likely to become more common, and potentially more dangerous, experts say.
