AT&T, the company that claims network neutrality rules are going to kill fiber investments, just launched a new fiber network in North Carolina.

Despite boasting about the gigabit speeds its new fiber deployment will offer, AT&T's press release on the matter repeated the company's claim that President Obama's net neutrality proposal will kill future fiber investments.

"President Obama's proposal in early November to regulate the entire Internet under rules from the 1930s designed for voice services injects significant uncertainty into the economics underlying AT&T's investment decisions," AT&T said today. "As a result, the company has paused consideration of any fiber investments that would go beyond its DirecTV merger-related commitments, which includes previously announced fiber plans described above, until the rules are clarified."

AT&T's opposition to net neutrality rules that rely on the Federal Communications Commission's utility regulation powers have led to some conflicting statements. First, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company would pause plans to bring fiber to up to 100 cities until the net neutrality debate is over. The FCC asked AT&T to clarify itself, leading to the company contradict its own CEO's statement by saying the 100-city plan and commitments made as part of the pending DirecTV merger would proceed.

That list of 100 cities includes the ones in North Carolina that AT&T rolled out service to today, namely Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem.

"Consumers in eligible areas have several choices of Internet speeds and bundling offers on the AT&T GigaPower network, with speeds up to 100Mbps starting as low as $90 per month," AT&T said. "Residential customers can upgrade their speed to up to 1Gbps, add TV, or add a home phone for an additional $30 a month per service."

AT&T never committed to building in all 100 cities, but the company said it would consider each one.

Despite the threat of net neutrality, Cox Communications is also moving forward with high-speed Internet plans. Today, the company deployed $99-per-month symmetrical gigabit broadband to a luxury apartment building in Southern California. Cox launched its first residential gigabit service in October in Phoenix, and the company says it will bring gigabit speeds to all of its residential markets by the end of 2016.

It's not just big companies deploying fiber either. A new company in Lansing, Michigan called LightSpeed is bringing gigabit fiber to several communities in that state.