AT&T Consolidating BellSouth Website, TOSThe slow integration continues... ( old news - 06:39PM Thursday Sep 27 2007) tags: legal · business · telco · content · AT&T U-Verse · AT&T DSL ServiceWhile AT&T has merged with BellSouth, there's a significant amount of work to be done integrating the two companies. DSL tiers, speeds and offers still aren't consistent between footprints, and U-Verse has yet to see a Southeast market launch (though Atlanta is looming). Not even the companies websites have been merged yet, but according to an e-mail to subscribers, that changes on October 22: The home page address will change from home.bellsouth.net to att.net. No action is necessary on your part to continue accessing the site. You can continue accessing the site as you do today and you’ll automatically be re-directed to the new site. (However, if you wish, you may want to update your bookmarks at that time so you can go directly to the site.) There will be a slight change to the way you sign-in to the site. At sign-in you will just need to select the appropriate email domain name (bellsouth.net) from a convenient drop-down menu. The e-mail also alerts customers that the company has finally consolidated their terms of service, informing users that by simply continuing to use the service, "you signify your continued agreement to the terms and conditions set forth in the Terms of Service document." It's not clear which site design AT&T will use across footprints, though users tell us the latest BellSouth design only a few months old.
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 clecssuck
join:2002-01-23
Birmingham, AL | email I reckon they'll have to leave all the @bellsouth.net email addresses in place as long as the subscriber keeps it right? | |
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ATTek
Got Sand?
Premium
join:2000-12-13
Pinon Hills, CA
| Re: email said by clecssuck  :I reckon they'll have to leave all the @bellsouth.net email addresses in place as long as the subscriber keeps it right? I would imagine so. We still have folks out here that are using the pacbell.net domain.
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| | hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | Most likely. AT$T did this with sbcglobal.net my cousins just signed up with DSL and they were given @att.net email addresses. Same everything except the email and the software packaging to sign up was changed to reflect AT$T | |
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BigPete
@qwest.net | I think thats what they've been doing... I still have an @sbcglobal.net email address from the SBC days and I know some people that still have an @pacbell.net email address... | |
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omnomnomnom
@ameritech.net | Re: email I still have a Ameritech email address | |
| | bennor
join:2006-07-22
New Haven, CT
| said by clecssuck :I reckon they'll have to leave all the @bellsouth.net email addresses in place as long as the subscriber keeps it right? They should. There are some of us in the SNET territory (CT) that are still using an "@snet.net" address that we've had since pre-assimilation in 1998. | |
| | NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by clecssuck :I reckon they'll have to leave all the @bellsouth.net email addresses in place as long as the subscriber keeps it right? They certainly left the other domains alone after SBC consolidated Ameritech, Pacific Telesis, Prodigy, Southern New England Telephone and Southwestern Bell Telephone under the SBC brand:
•ameritech.net
•flash.net
•nvbell.net
•pacbell.net
•prodigy.net
•sbcglobal.net
•snet.net
•swbell.net
•wans.net
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| | | | | tkdslr
join:2004-04-24
Pompano Beach, FL
·Speakeasy
| said by ropeguru :Now that AT&T Southeast, formerly Bellsouth, is now under the AT&T TOS, all server restrictions are lifted. So if we want to host our "personal" web page from home we can. No, they just simplified the terms to a more restrictive broadly worded clause.. Effectively banning all unattended P2P applications, this would include torrents, WWW, FTP, SMTP, etc..
from the AT&T's new TOS..
"12. Restrictions on Use & Storage, Prohibition on Resale"
"You agree that the Service is not to be used to host peer-to-peer application that you are not actively using. You agree that the Service is not to be used to trunk or facilitate public Internet access (“Hotspots”) or any other public use of the Service." | |
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angrykeys
join:2006-10-26
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: So... quote:
"12. Restrictions on Use & Storage, Prohibition on Resale"
"You agree that the Service is not to be used to host peer-to-peer application that you are not actively using. You agree that the Service is not to be used to trunk or facilitate public Internet access (“Hotspots”) or any other public use of the Service."
What exactly is a "peer-to-peer application that you are not actively using"?
How do they know that I'm not sitting in front of my computer while I'm seeding a torrent? | |
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tendowlars
@verizon.net | Make sure they include: $10 DSL | |
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joako
Premium
join:2000-09-07
/dev/null
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Re: Make sure they include: said by tendowlars :
$10 DSL
It's going to take a long time to get the pricing the same. All of the rates tariff's need to be approved. They really have to fight the PUC's to get those lower rates in place!
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| | | NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | Re: Make sure they include: said by joako :It's going to take a long time to get the pricing the same. All of the rates tariff's need to be approved. They really have to fight the PUC's to get those lower rates in place! AFAIK, DSL is not regulated by the PUCs. It certainly did not take a lot of fighting to set the national prices across the old Ameritech, Pacific Telesis, Southern New England Telephone, and Southwestern Bell Telephone regions; the former SBC which bought AT&T.
P.S. The $10 DSL offer has been available in San Jose, California for some time, now.
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tendowlars
@verizon.net
| Re: Make sure they include: said by Doctor Olds :said by tendowlars Location: @verizon.net :
$10 DSL
Really? WHY? You still can't get it as you are in a Verizon service area. The former Bellsouth area already gets the $10.00 DSL Lite service. I only say this because AT&T boldly and readily agreed to offer $10 dsl service as part of the merger agreement for a specified period of time if the merger with Bell South got approved, and the CLOCK IS TICKING... try as they might to HIDE this deal from the Bell South customers. I only see $14.99 dsl advertised. | |
| | | | | | | | NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | said by tendowlars :
I only say this because AT&T boldly and readily agreed to offer $10 dsl service as part of the merger agreement for a specified period of time if the merger with Bell South got approved, and the CLOCK IS TICKING... try as they might to HIDE this deal from the Bell South customers. I only see $14.99 dsl advertised.
Where do you see $14.95 AT&T/Bellsouth DSL? All that I can find is $19.95 DSL (FastAccess DSL Lite). Are you confusing "AT&T FastAccess" with "at&t Yahoo! HSI"?
As for the $10 DSL, I found that easily enough, going through the 'at&t Yahoo! HSI' offerings. The problem is, I needed a local telephone number to check it out. The same with "AT&T FastAccess"; except I *have* local numbers to try in an area served by 'at&t Yahoo! HSI', but not for areas served by "AT&T FastAccess".
As Doctor Olds mentions, the links are available in these forums. | |
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lordfly
join:2000-10-12
Homestead, FL | Am I suppose to read my bellsouth email? I haven't read my bellsouth e-mail address in several months. Are they going to send out a snail mail for the majority of us that don't even use it except as a login name?
Thanks DSLR for the update. | |
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ropeguru
Premium
join:2001-01-25
Bridgeport, WV
clubs:
 ·VOIPo
| Re: Am I suppose to read my bellsouth email? said by lordfly :I haven't read my bellsouth e-mail address in several months. Are they going to send out a snail mail for the majority of us that don't even use it except as a login name? Thanks DSLR for the update. Apparently not. I just logged into my webmail and had zero emails.
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RTR
@bellsouth.net
| RE When are they going to introduce Yahoo content on Bellsouth territories
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ATt has it on the other states ,,, Before the merger Bellsouth was going to announce a alliance with yahoo for broadband content .. but it never came to life after the merger.. | |
| | NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Re: RE said by RTR :
When are they going to introduce Yahoo content on Bellsouth territories
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ATt has it on the other states ,,, Before the merger Bellsouth was going to announce a alliance with yahoo for broadband content .. but it never came to life after the merger..
Check in again, after Oct. 22, and tell us what you see.
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| | | lvas
join:2001-05-17
Glen Carbon, IL
| uverse in southeast was announced yesterday I know DSLreports hates to publish any postive news about At&t, but it was announced yesterday that At&t plans to spend almost 2 billion in that territory to bring u-verse.
see quote below
AT&T Brings U-verse to the Southeast — AT&T plans to bring 1,000 jobs to the Southeast in the next year to roll out its U-verse TV service. AT&T plans to spend $1.85 billion updating its broadband infrastructure, in part to make U-verse available to homes in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The service would enter homes through newly installed digital lines that are similar to, but separate from, Internet service lines. The service will be offered to some consumers in Atlanta later this year in a limited rollout, said an AT&T spokesman. The expansion will continue gradually in 2008 as the service becomes available neighborhood by neighborhood. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, online. | |
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GlobalMind
Domino Dude, POWER Systems Guy
Premium
join:2001-10-29
Hollywood, FL
| The only thing... ...they need to do on the website is fix their abhorrent bill payment/account maintenance area.
Slow, times out, have to go try to submit my payment 2 or 3x every month before it works.
Really pathetic.
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