AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL

prostoalex writes "As part of the deal with the FCC to approve the AT&T/BellSouth merger, AT&T started selling, but not advertising, a $10-per-month DSL service in 22 states, AP has learned. 'The service provides download speeds of up to 768 kilobits per second and upload speeds of up to 128 kbps, matching the speeds of the cheapest advertised AT&T plan, which costs $19.95 per month in the nine-state former BellSouth area and $14.99 in the 13 states covered by AT&T before the acquisition.'"

Re:Breaking AT&T news:

[WrongSizeGlass]

I just pooped my cute little pants.

Then I guess right now DSL means do some laundry to you.

Which states?

[thc69]

A quantity of states is provided in numeric form, but how about a list?

Re:Au Contraire

[Anonymous Coward]

$27 for shipping? Are they out of their fucking minds? For $27, I expect it to be hand delivered to me same-day by a hot female courier, with a big ol' sloppy blowjob thrown in to boot.

Re:And what's to stop them from...

[Anonymous Coward]

Because it's cable companies that do that. I've never heard of a DSL company throttling bandwidth on a regular basis.

Re:That price is basically a lie.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's $10 a month, with an additional feature of sending all your packets directly to the NSA at no extra charge!

Oh yeah, you can't opt out of that feature. It's a bundle.

Re:If it were free it would still be overpriced

[Reaperducer]

Funny. My AT&T heartache story has to do with moving, too.

I moved from the third floor to the fourth floor of a builiding. AT&T wouldn't move my phone service insisting that there is no fourth floor in my building. AT&T claimed it was only a two-story building, which doesn't explain how it was able to hook up phone my original service on the third floor. AT&T refused to send someone out to verify the building had four stories. One hypothesis they proffered was that it was a new building. Nope. The building is older than AT&T.

I ended up getting Roadrunner and Vonage since AT&T for some reason didn't want my money.

Re:Au Contraire

[wirelessbuzzers]

That's the "handling" part.

Re:And what's to stop them from...

[lord sibn]

Hehe, "Linux ISO." *wink wink*

Re:If it were free it would still be overpriced

[skintigh2]

I was paying them $66 a month for phone service that would cut in and out all night, drop calls over and over and often not give me a dial tone. Yes, this was a land line. AT&T insisted I had bad wires in the house, even though I plugged my phone into the junction box outside and still heard all the static.

Then they told me they were going to put a conduit under my patio and put in a new wire. I came home to find that they had tore up my lawn and not bother to fix it, sprayed orange spray paint all over my patio, tore out and broke pavers on my patio, bent the thick steel edging around the patio, and damaged my cable TV cable and made that all staticy. And my phone service was not improved at all.

After roughly 20 calls and 20 lines tests that found nothing wrong and 15 promises to send a tech and 10 messages that my gate was locked and they couldn't work (my gate can't lock) they finally decided there was a problem with the trunk, and as long as it was hot it worked, but when it cooled down at night something came loose. I asked when they would fix it and they told me the problem could only be identified at nights and they don't work nights, so never.

When I called to cancel my phone the rep kept me on the line for 20 minutes trying to sell me, among other things, DSL! When I reminded her that I couldn't even get voice down my line she was sure they could make it work with DSL. When I finally got her to disconnect me she asks "is there anything else I can do to make you a satisfied AT&T customer?" I was speechless.