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768kbps DSL 'Lite' now once again $19.95
(old news - 08:59AM Tuesday Feb 03 2009)
tags: dsl · legal · prices · business · consumers · AT&T Southeast
Last fall AT&T got ample press for reducing the price of their 768kbps DSL Lite tier from $19.95 to $14.95 in Southern markets. Interestingly, nobody bothered to mention that you're already supposed to be able to order that same tier for $10, as a condition (pdf) of the AT&T BellSouth merger.

Unfortunately for consumers, while AT&T was forced to provide the tier for two years, they were under no obligation to advertise it or make it easy to sign up for. Now one customer writes us to note that the $14.95 tier -- that is really actually a $10 tier -- is once again being advertised for $19.95 (blame AT&T if that's confusing). CEO Randall Stephenson recently stated that the $10 price isn't hard to find, and nobody would want it anyway:
"We haven't made it difficult to find. To be honest with you, that's not a product that our customers have clamored for. We still have $15 offers out there in the marketplace, even $20 offers, for 1.5 megabit speeds. Those are really kind of the minimum speeds that give a good user experience. So I don't want to necessarily offer up a product where the user experience is not what I would consider really state of the art. That $10 product is kind of in that mode."
Apparently Stephenson would have us believe that customers do want to pay $20 for the exactly same service. The lower price point was originally a response to the fact that AT&T was losing vanilla DSL customers, some of whom were upgrading to U-Verse, and some of whom were migrating to faster cable service. AT&T apparently also solved that problem last quarter by completely hiding vanilla DSL numbers in their earnings report.

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XBL2009
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30mbps cable

Cable is now offering super fast 30mbps cable and for the same price as att offers 18mbps. There is no competition on the high end side of things.

att has always been the K-mart of telcom.
permalink · 2009-02-03 09:04:41 · Reply to this

battleop

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Re: 30mbps cable

And this has what relevance to this particular story?
permalink · 2009-02-03 09:30:04 · Reply to this

Eat Me

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Re: 30mbps cable

It has relevance because it deals with competitors' pricing.
permalink · 2009-02-03 09:37:07 · Reply to this
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Re: 30mbps cable

said by Eat Me See Profile :

It has relevance because it deals with competitors' pricing.
Here in Ohio we have AT&T's 6Mbps tier for $35 vs. Time Warner's (Road Runner) 7Mbps tier for $44. Nobody is offering 30Mbps, and U-Verse is just starting to hit the area. Unless you are in a large market you don't get the high end speeds yet.
permalink · 2009-02-03 11:00:24 · Reply to this

morbo
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Re: 30mbps cable

$35 for naked 6Mbps?
permalink · 2009-02-03 13:29:24 · Reply to this
mlbSAE

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Re: 30mbps cable

No, land line must be there as well. Since I have a land line (wife makes me) it is an easy decision.
permalink · 2009-02-03 13:50:32 · Reply to this

esc0

@newskies.net

 I am in El Paso and pay $40 for 6Mbps dry loop from ATT. But I only achieve 5.2Mbps at best. We TWC but their support disappointed me several times and I had to switch. TWC offers 7Mbps for $44.95 in El Paso. These are the only two choices I have here, but I should not complain and think about those in rural America.
permalink · 2009-02-04 08:23:57 · Reply to this

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 Hmmm, capped service or uncapped service? Even Comcast with their 250g cap is low. At&t will probably cap its non u-verse customers who have only dsl service and pots. I have been saying for years now that video streaming will catch on and over take caps. These companies like Comcast are catching on to the fact that people like myself actually use the connection to stream video. For those that say, you must be doing other things if you are reaching the caps like illegal P2P, that is a load of horse shit. More and more sites like Hulu are popping up now and more and more video will compete directly with some ISP's other service such as cable television. Since some companies internet service is directly competing with its television service. Guess what happens? Caps, that's right, let me say it again, CAPS. Do you think these companies actually like competition? Look at the way they react now with any such suggestion that there is a monopoly or duopoly. Now guess how they react when one of its own services starts to compete with another of its services. Caps, caps, caps, caps....... Until there is true competition consumers will suffer. I say its time for the justice departments antitrust division to break these companies up so different companies offer separate services.
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permalink · 2009-02-03 10:04:24 · Print · Reply to this
iansltx

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Re: 30mbps cable

AT&T is testing caps in Beaumont and Reno. 150 GB max, including 18 Mbps U-Verse. 250GB on Comcast simply rules out online backup in high-end cases. 150 OTOH...meh!
permalink · 2009-02-03 11:28:02 · Reply to this

wHA

@mycingular.net		 If at&t is the K-Mart of telecom, then cable is the Big Lots of telecom considering the awesome shape most cableco plant is in. This is especially true from the network management side. Telcos typically have better managed networks than cable.
permalink · 2009-02-03 16:01:20 · Reply to this

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To be honest with you...

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To be honest with you....
Thanks, Randall. At what point after this phrase do you return to your previously scheduled bullshit? Just so we're clear.
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permalink · 2009-02-03 09:29:04 · Reply to this

XBL2009
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South Korea is spending 24 billion for 1Gbps

»South Korea Aims For 1Gbps

We continue to fall behind.
permalink · 2009-02-03 10:04:01 · Reply to this

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Re: South Korea is spending 24 billion for 1Gbps

Don't let the door hit ya in the ass as you move to the utopia that is SK.
permalink · 2009-02-03 10:15:32 · Reply to this

Eat Me

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Re: South Korea is spending 24 billion for 1Gbps

You know it... I'd just love to live in Asia with their overcrowded cities.
permalink · 2009-02-03 11:03:51 · Reply to this

XBL2009
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Re: South Korea is spending 24 billion for 1Gbps

said by Eat Me See Profile :

You know it... I'd just love to live in Asia with their overcrowded cities.
The country side will have 100mbps connections as well so you don't need to suffer overcrowding at all.
permalink · 2009-02-03 13:56:44 · Reply to this

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said by XBL2009 See Profile :

»South Korea Aims For 1Gbps

We continue to fall behind.
Great, and they are on the verge of war with north Korea. Have fun over there.
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permalink · 2009-02-03 14:48:34 · Print · Reply to this
w4ncr

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Re: South Korea is spending 24 billion for 1Gbps

DSL 6-mbps in Wilmington, N.C. is 42.95 why dont we get the 35.00 charge for DSL--6-MBPS?????????
permalink · 2009-02-03 16:08:30 · Reply to this

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said by ptrowski See Profile :

said by XBL2009 See Profile :

»South Korea Aims For 1Gbps

We continue to fall behind.
Great, and they are on the verge of war with north Korea. Have fun over there.
verge of war since 1953. yeah um ok.
permalink · 2009-02-03 16:23:01 · Print · Reply to this

laughingman

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 Yeah I bet, just like they have been on the verge since the 60s... just like india and pakistan amirite? It's sensational bs and you should know better by now.

"You know it... I'd just love to live in Asia with their overcrowded cities."

Yeah... right... erm that excuse kinda got thrown out the door in 1999 don't you think? After all, our crowded cities still have the same over priced CRAPPY internet options.

Neither geography nor technology limits the internet in America. Only GREED.
permalink · 2009-02-03 17:12:57 · Reply to this

fox_rpguxe

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$19.95 is for dry loop DSL

I ordered the AT&T offer for $19.95 and it was for those of us without home phone service so that makes it a MUCH BETTER deal than $14.95 with a home phone. They have botched the installation so far, so I have to wait another week for them to try again. I do not know how much in the way of fees they will be charging in Ohio.
permalink · 2009-02-03 18:47:10 · Reply to this
disc

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Raleigh, NC

AT&T seems to think its business as usual

I don't think the Obama administration will give a hoot about bandwidth caps, but I would be surprised if the administration doesn't weigh in on carriers keeping a low-price tier, not only for disadvantaged, but also for all the newly minted unemployed.

It's just a matter of time - AT&T will get the message. Just like the bankers are getting the message now about salary caps.
permalink · 2009-02-04 15:09:02 · Reply to this
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