treaders
join:2007-09-23
Houston, TX
| reply to NormanS
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. |
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cwh
join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX
| 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. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
·DSL EXTREME
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September 24th, @02:32AM
| 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 |
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vinnie97
join:2003-12-05
Mesquite, TX | Let the forced bundling continue, aye. Fuhgettabout it, AT&T. |
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