Cable is Eating DSL's Lunch in Un-Upgraded Markets > New uverse = old adsl

New uverse = old adsl

I, too, am in an unupgraded market. We moved offices a couple weeks ago and had AT&T move the phone lines. When they did, they terminated our legacy DSL service. When I inquired about it, they told me that DSL was no longer available and I'd have to upgrade to U-Verse. I went along with it, but neither U-Verse voice nor U-Verse TV are available, only Internet. The "new" service is the same 3 meg service we've always had. Even the modem they sent is a plain old ADSL2+ modem. As far as I'm concerned, it's not U-Verse unless it's VDSL with TV and voice. I guess this is AT&T's way of making the public "think" they are improving things, without actually putting any money into the network.

reply to etaadmin

Verizon is the same deal. I am in an area that will be one of the last ever upgraded. I supposedly can get 3.0 Mbps DSL. The problem with that is that the copper here is so old it won't even support 56k dial up over pots. In fact, my line has so much attenuation that adding more than 2 ringers to the line causes pots to drop.

So much easier to go to Comcast.
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Exactly the same which happened here,

I have recently been looking for a dsl provider to help cut costs but there just isn't any here because the copper here is so old and neglected.

I love how we spouted off about this for the past 5 years since fios started and now it's hurting the investors bottom line and they will complain about it, sorry but Im not going capped wireless, at this point i have even dumped some value added services on verizon wireless to get away from verizon. Tired of when a ceo has a vision and has a direction for the future the boards of this country dump them instead of embracing the future. We can not all live only for today we need to start developing for the future.

IVAN WE MISS YOU ALREADY !
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reply to etaadmin
AT&T tried to get me to sign up for "U-Verse Elite" at 6mbps for $24.95 a month or upgrade to "Elite DSL" for $43 at my 1 year last month. I threatened to switch to TWC and got a $19.99 "Elite DSL" promo. Why would I care to upgrade to U-Verse? I don't qualify for any package higher than "U-Verse Elite". I did qualify for "Max" at 12mbps at one time, but that option went away. 1 choice for a modem which I would have to pay $100 for.

I don't come close to the 150GB cap and I get to keep my good ol' Speedstream 4100 and Linksys WRT54G.
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Yeah, it's kind of like that.

reply to smitmor
AT&T is calling anything and everything that connect to their U-verse "backbone Uverse! in your case, you got hooked up to an IPDSLAM at the central office. That equipment has no TV capabilities thus its just DSL.
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