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Submission + - AT&T Offers Austin Discount Internet and Spying (att.com)

Submitted by Mabonus on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:51PM

Mabonus writes: AT&T issued a press release today outlining their GigaPower plans for fiber in Austin with a few hefty footnotes. Notably the 'Premier' service is $70 with mandatory participation in their browsing information collection and ad targeting program, and GigaPower means up to 300mbps and a data cap. GigaOm has asked AT&T how they plan on collecting the information and received a slim response.

Comment Good luck to them (Score 5, Interesting) 230

by Mabonus on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:26PM (#45004601) Attached to: The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin

I really enjoyed calling up to cancel after Google connected our house.

"Why are you cancelling?"
"I found a better service."
"Can I ask what?"
"Sure, I found 1,0000 Mbps for $70/mo"
"Well. I can offer you 14Mbps for $40/mo"

They followed up with a letter just yesterday saying how they were surprised I canceled since they have such a great service and offering a $300 gift card for re-upping. As far as I can tell they have no strategy for dealing with competing fiber rollouts and Austin doesn't sound like one either.

Comment Re:iPhone fine print (Score 1) 770

by Mabonus on Monday June 08, 2009 @04:08PM (#28255481) Attached to: Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More

I found it odd that the fine print just says iPhone 3G upgrades are spendy and I took a look at ATT's upgrade page for my account. Right now I'm being offered an upgrade to the existing 16G 3G iphone for $299. It's not cheap, but it's not as expensive as the fine print reads either. FWIW I've got one of the first gen Edge iphones, so perhaps that clause doesn't apply to me!

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