Reviews:
 ·Charter
| Why No Faster Plans When The Line (Loop) Supports It? I'm on Elite right now (6mbps/768kbps), looks like the line (loop) would be ok with 8mbps/1mbps or even possibly 10mbps/1mbps, so why does AT&T not offer it? I'd gladly pay a little more, as long as it's still cheaper than the local cable.
Or at a minimum, why can't AT&T at least overprovision to give advertised speeds. Like provision at 7200/800 would be nice. |
Reviews:
 ·Millenicom
 ·AT&T Southeast
·Verizon Wireless..
| Probably because they got burned overpromising the 6.0 plan. Lots of customers were told they could get 6.0 based on some bad engineering estimates. But the line, over time, did not keep that performance. Customers had to be dropped back to 3.0. Another thing is, it would be encroaching on the Uverse internet market potential. If you can get 8,9, or 10 from regular DSL why would you sign up for Uverse internet. Another is it does not seem to fit the market tiers AT&T wants to use. Note that AT&T DSL has 0.75, 1.5, 3.0, and 6.0 tiers. A doubling of speed for each tier. The next tier would be 12.0. Not many people are close enough to the DSLAM or CO to get that speed reliably, so it is not worth it, in AT&T's thinking, to create the new tier. I'm with you on this. I wish they had a sliding scale that allowed for much finer gradations in DSL service tiers. I would like to know what would happen if the took all the artificial speed restrictions off the DSL service. All DSL customers would pay the same flat fee each month, get a modem, and get whatever speed you got based on the distance from the DSLAM, If you were one city block away you might get 24.0 down. If you were 30,000 ft away from the DSLAM you might get 0.375 down. Someone between those two might get 5.3 down. I do not know enough to say if that would be technically feasible. |
