 AlpinePremium
join:2000-01-11
Atlanta, GA | BellSouth Region Curious to see how this takes hold in the BellSouth region once the merger is complete.
I'm not sure what to do. I have DirecTV as a bundle with BellSouth and I can't really change because I love their exclusive NFL package. But ATT currently has the deal with Dish and, with U-Verse rolling out, who knows what's going to happen in the next year or two.
I can tell you one thing, though. I ain't going back to Comcast! 
Adam |
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Antonlm
join:2004-09-15
Birmingham, AL | I'm also in BS region Birmingham AL, and it appears with this merger that my Dish network account may be a plus |
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Alpine, hopefully you are not served by one of the 250,000 households wired for IFITL. If you are, just forget about it. I am being told IFITL will not see an upgrade anytime soon (maybe 2007, BellSouth prediction), and with the merger coming down the pipe I see any IFITL upgrades being pushed back (maybe 2008-9).
It would have been a nice dream-to-reality had BellSouth sold its IFITL infrastructure to Verizon. Fios would have been a wonderful dream come true. As it stands, all though IFITLers are stuck on c.1995 broadband speeds with little hope.
And considering Comcast just asked former Adelphia customers in Atlanta to bend over the couch (raised our rates by 34% for basic cable broadband service), its a dark future ripe for broadband suicide.  |
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AlpinePremium
join:2000-01-11
Atlanta, GA | I'm not, but I hear you on this. A buddy of mine at work is stuck on IFITL @ 1.5meg. Kind of ridiculous to have that infrastructure go to waste.
Another coworker is on DFITL @ 3meg and has been told 6meg+ will show up in 2007. We shall see.
I don't know about AT&T's plans, but they (aka SBC) tend to be considerably more aggressive than the ultra-conservative BellSouth (though that served BellSouth very well during the Dot-Com bust.) Maybe they'll light up that fibre with something better.
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