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reply to treaders

Re: U-verse internet only justification

Agreed, your explanation makes sense but why not offer the internet only at a lower rate?

Given that the U-verse VDSL internet speeds appear to be faster (and more accessible) than the AT&T ADSL speeds.

I cannot obtain faster than 1.3Mbps on my AT&T ADSL connection because of my house's distance from the exchange (approx. 12,500 feet). I am assuming that U-verse will have fiber-optic cable closer to my house and therefore my accessible internet speed would increase, at least greater than 1.3Mbps.

Appreciate your thoughts.

My guess is for the time being they are going to have enough people willing to take the tv/internet bundle to not worry about losing the few customers who only want the internet portion. At some point, they will migrate legacy adsl customers onto the new network.

reply to treaders
I'm at 12,300' from the CO, and I'm capped at 1984/512kbps.
Uverse brings the fiber to the node (breakout box) typically up to 3000', allowing overall speeds over 100Mbps on VDSL 2+.
Rates are currently capped at 25Mbps, and 6Mbps is the max allowed for Internet

I suspect, just as AT&T didn't want dry loop DSL, they don't want Internet only Uverse. You could probably get U100 + Internet 6Mbps and that's as cheap as it'll get.

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Canada = Hollywood North

Let the forced bundling continue, aye. Fuhgettabout it, AT&T.

reply to NormanS
At »www.att.com/Uverse/files/u-verse···ml#Order it now says:

"May I order only AT&T U-verse TV, or only AT&T Yahoo! High-speed Internet U-verse Enabled service?
Yes, but you get a discount for having both services. Please visit »uverse.att.com for more product and service information."

I have not yet worked out how to order internet only though.

Maybe internet only is under the "build your own" section?

reply to treaders
You left out the word (Build Your Own ) `package`. And if there concept of a package is a single service, starting at $54.95 sure is expensive for 1.5MB service.

I'm sure there are many that would like to have Internet and Wireless or Internet and VoIP without TV from AT&T.
Qwest appears to be going for high speed DSL w/o TV... why can't AT&T.
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Canada = Hollywood North

It looks like AT&T CAN and DOES offer VDSL (dry no less) Internet service... you just have to order it through a San Antonio office.

I received one of those $50 reward junk mail items if I sign up for AT&T Yahoo Internet 'pro' or higher speed.

Well, AT&T no longer offers pro speed at my address (even though I have 3008/512 package on DSL-Ex, and I'm sync'd at that rate!).

I called the 1-866 # to find out what the deal was, as I don't qualify for 'pro'. The C.S. rep was nice enough, and apologized for the confusion, as I don't qualify for it on DSL, but attempted to sell me on Uverse 'pro' or 'elite', which doesn't have the rebates
I told him that its no good, as I'm in contract for my TV, and don't want to deal with the outages reported (vs. ~5 minutes since 2003 on DTV due to heavy rain).

He then went to say that I could purchase Uverse Internet ONLY 'pro' for $30/month, or 'elite' for $40/month.
This is GOOD NEWS! I even made sure it didn't require POTS/LD! I mentioned that I'd have to wait for my DSL contract to be up, as well as AT&T to launch VoIP before I'd switch. I have the callback # for ordering it
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Canada = Hollywood North

Ignore me...I somehow replied to this thread without seeing the entirety of it...