AT&T U-Verse Expansion Much Smaller Than They'd Have You Believe → Intended side effect of this...

I am sure an intended side effect to this is that AT&T (Verizon is following to) is using this move to eliminate any of the remaining ISPs that buy DSL aggregation from AT&T.

A now retired AT&T executive told me about a 1-2 years ago that AT&T believes that if they were to find a way to end the existing contracts that 99% of those users would just switch to AT&T even if they had access to other services like Cable and Muni Fiber.

u verse is a downgrade since your ping rises substantially compared to adsl2+

My pings on U-verse VDSL were:

NY:26
Chicago:43
West Coast:95

Slightly lower than my Comcast .

U-verse Internet is often ADSL2+. I have ADSL2+ (but not U-verse Internet). I am on interleaved, but my latency isn't bad:

Tracing route to %Friend%.dyn-dns.net [75.35.yy.zz]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms     1 ms  homeportal [192.168.42.1]
  2    25 ms    25 ms    26 ms  173-228-7-1.dsl.static.sonic.net [173.228.7.1]
  3    25 ms    25 ms    24 ms  gig1-4.cr1.lsatca11.sonic.net [70.36.243.13]
  4    25 ms    24 ms    33 ms  0.xe-5-1-0.gw.pao1.sonic.net [69.12.211.1]
  5    25 ms    25 ms    25 ms  0.xe-6-1-0.gw2.200p-sf.sonic.net [64.142.0.109]
  6    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  as0.gw.200p-sf.sonic.net [208.106.96.249]
  7    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  xe-10-1-0.bar2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net [4.53.134.9]
  8    28 ms    25 ms    26 ms  ae-6-6.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.140.154]
  9    26 ms    27 ms    26 ms  ae-82-82.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.153.26]
 10    35 ms    25 ms    26 ms  ae-3-80.edge2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.152.143]
 11    43 ms    32 ms    28 ms  192.205.32.209
 12    33 ms    30 ms    30 ms  cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.114.6]
 13    29 ms    30 ms    30 ms  12.123.155.117
 14    32 ms    30 ms    33 ms  12.122.114.25
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 ... 
 ... 
 ... 
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 
Trace complete.
 

U-verse is VDSL2. AT&T buys ADSL2+ modems and DSLAMs but has them configured for ADSL in non-Uverse properties.

"U-verse HSI" is definitely ADSL2+.

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