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Yea, I can show you something.

How about the last few quarters earnings conference calls where they are discussing the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of lost landline customers each quarter.

And, If you think they are suddenly offering this kind of price out of the goodness of their hearts, you'd better think again. It was a CONDITION of their bell south merger that they HAD to do this.

That's hardly at&t becoming a goodwill ambassador to the poor.

And, do you REALLY think that if they didn't HAVE to do this..or for that matter..offer their other levels of service so cheap...that they would still be doing it?

DSL, priced where it is today..is NOT cheap when you factor in
a)the speeds and
b) the phone line you must have to get it

Cable HSI is a much better value all the way around.

Even at this pricing, a person would have to pay 30.00 + just to get 768k service when you factor it all in.

How is that a better value than 42.95 for Comcast, and it's up to 15,000k and beyond speeds with powerboost?

It's not.

Let's face it. If this company really had a worthwhile product, they wouldn't have to give it away for 15.00 and less. They do it because they have to.

And that is a company in decline. And their loss of landline customers is huge.

So the only fact you have is their loss of landline customers. AT&T knows they are losing landlines. That's why they bough AT&T Wireless. Their cell phone service is a large part of their plan to diversify. As cell phones increase in popularity they are still making money.
As far as which is better Cable & DSL, I'm not going down that road. Suffice to say DSL is doing well, just like cable is. Neither are going away any time soon.
I never said they are doing anything out of the goodness of their heart. AT&T is heartless. They are doing it out of the goodness of their investors desire to profit.

Edit: Fixed grammatical error.

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Comcast costs more than $42.95 in my area, even for the more basic package, not to mention if I want to get the speed to match my 6 meg DSL. I also don't have cable, so they charge a higher fee for that. DSL+phone line would cost less.

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Yes ,they're access line loss is huge, but they added enough DSL subs to make up for it. All the major telco players have managed to offset their line loss with DSL sales these past two quarters. AT&T still has Cingular which also gobbles up a lot of that line loss as well.

In response to your value proposition of $42.95 Comcast service. You have to realize that this is a really cheap product that is obviously to draw in dial up users who indeed still use a phone line, and have no need for that speed. Just because you play Doom online with your xBOX 360 and need that speed doesn't mean that the average person who uses the internet to check email and surf a bit needs the same connection. I think having a phone line with a lite DSL connection at that price is a great value for someone coming from dial up internet. I think $42.95 for Comcast is a great value for the person who doesn't need a land line, but needs a very high speed internet connection. It's all about the situation, and the majority of the US is more price conscious than megabyte conscious at this point.

I work for Qwest and I always pitch the highest speeds available to each and every customer, but %80 of the time the customer wants the lower tier of DSL because they don't feel like they need anything more than that and don't want to pay for more than that, and they are happy with the service.

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"Cable HSI is a much better value all the way around."

Not necessarily. Think about the people who are stuck with small, expensive cable companies, or no cable at all. If I were to get back with CableOne, getting basic service minimum (No digital cable; just plain plug-into-tv cable), and ordering their 1.5 mbit tier, I would be paying AT MINIMUM $85 per month. Also take note the highest speed my cable company offers is even LOWER than AT&T's: 5 mbit. My cable bill would sky-rocket over $100 if I ordered this, and last time I checked..I don't even think my cable ISP offers offers static IP.

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