The Naperville City Council is considering high-tech services for residents with a proposal from AT&T called Project Lightspeed that offers an on-demand video library and satellite television, among other services for those with Internet access.
The service would feature hundreds of channels, a Web browser interface and wireless phone service. The project offers residents greater programming choices and price competition to the city’s current cable providers, Comcast and Wide Open West, according to a city press release. Service would begin 18 to 36 months after the plan’s approval.
However, AT&T contends that it is exempt from providing Project Lightspeed to all residents because the product is an information service delivered over an Internet protocol platform, as defined by the Federal Communications Commission, according to the release.
The other cable companies want AT&T to be subject to the same requirements as them.
Despite that, city staff has pursued an agreement with AT&T for the last two months.
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The council is expected to address the issue again Aug. 15.