AT&T is emitting nothing but hot air. There are whole subdivisions near me that AT&T still hasn't deployed any form of DSL. All of them are less than five miles from the central office. These folks would be thrilled with even 256/128 service in comparison with their current choices of dial-up or satellite.
What about cable?
If you don't have cable because the area wasn't profitable enough, you sure as hell arenot going to have DSL (DSLAMs).
Actually, there any many areas where subdivisions are getting wired for DSL before even getting wired for cable. A lot of the time, cable doesn't want to come in until so many houses are built, but AT&T will offer DSL as soon as a few are built. I have noticed this especially in some of Charter's service areas. I guess they are too broke to jump in first.
