AT&T Fiber To The Home → faster internet speeds

I'm currently staying at a friends house over the holidays who has cox cable standard tier in the Cox San Diego California market. This tier is 7Mbit/sec downstream and 512kbps upstream.
The best AT&T DSL is 6Mbps download and 768kbps upload.
Uverse only advantage is the extra 256k of upstream, and that's it? Come on AT&T give your users better internet, we don't all want TV!