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It's easy to take action. Buy DSL from a third party. Someone like "DSLExtreme", or ACD.net, or similar non-AT&T provider. They're (some) of the companies who
by maxsilver 13y ago
It's easy to take action.
Buy DSL from a third party. Someone like "DSLExtreme", or ACD.net, or similar non-AT&T provider.
They're (some) of the companies who directly use these agreements that AT&T is trying to destroy. If more companies like them existed, and/or had better revenue, they could stand up and fight for their future.
Of course, no one will sign up for their service, because they'll only be able to provide you with 0 to 6mbps of service (because they only are allowed access to Central Offices, and not the smaller offices / boxes AT&T uses to get you Uverse), which makes them significantly slower than either ATT Uverse or Comcast in the vast majority of markets.
Which is why we're in this mess in the first place.
- judk 13y agoThose providers can't offer better prices because they pay wholesale from the monopolist and add their business on top. They can only compete on service. That's nice, but I want to pay less overall.
- mng2 13y agoIn my current apartment, it's not even possible to get 3rd party DSL. (Reply from DSLExtreme: After looking into your prequalification results we determined that we cannot provide High-Speed Internet Service to your location.) And what's worse is that my apartment isn't wired for cable either (cable guy came out, said "sorry dude"). So what's left? Satellite? Tethering? I wish there was a reasonable alternative, and I would be happy to buy even measly 1.5 Mbps service as long as the money wouldn't be going into AT&T's coffers.