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AT&T Broadband Introduces Tiered Pricing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the add-a-rheostat-and-a-quarter-slot dept.

Joey Patterson writes "It had to happen sooner or later. CNET reports that AT&T Broadband has introduced a tiered pricing plan called UltraLink (3 Mbps down/384 kbps up) for $79.99/month if you buy your own modem and $82.95/month if you lease one of theirs."

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  1. Re:What is the big deal? by drsoran · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look, you may not realize this is a total ripoff, but I installed a network, so I do.

    These people are buying T1s for hundreds of dollars a month, then selling us a lousy 3Mbps for $80/mo. That's a rediculous amount of profit!

    Are you just trolling or is this some legitimate rant of yours? So, they buy 1.5Mbps worth of bandwidth for $200/month per your statement (in reality they probably pay far less than that) and then sell you twice that amount for $80/month. How is this making a "rediculous" amount of profit? Other than not getting a lot of upstream bandwidth it's a great deal for home users. I can get T-1 download speeds for far less than it would cost me to go out and get an actual commercial T-1 connection through an ISP, not to mention the hassles and delays of getting it installed.

  2. Re:What is the big deal? by Ioldanach · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    These people are buying T1s for hundreds of dollars a month, then selling us a lousy 3Mbps for $80/mo. That's a rediculous amount of profit!

    Yes, since a T1 can take 1.5Mbps and cost $800/month and they're offering a 3Mpbs nondedicated circuit for $80/month. Huge profit, yes. Lets see, then, they'd need 2 T1's for that bandwidth, for $1600, and 20 users just to pay for the bandwidth, all sharing it.

  3. Re:What is the big deal? by bteeter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Look, you may not realize this is a total ripoff, but I installed a network, so I do. These people are buying T1s for hundreds of dollars a month, then selling us a lousy 3Mbps for $80/mo. That's a rediculous amount of profit! We need to contact our government representatives, and do something to prevent this sort of gouging now, before it's too late.

    Hmmm...

    T1 = 1.54 Mbps = approx $500/month
    DSL = 3 Mbps = approx $100/month

    What the hell are you complaining about again??? DSL is a bargain - really. I know that everyone thinks they should get an ethernet drop to their house for $19.95 per month, but get real.

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  4. Re:What is the big deal? by NotesSauceBoss · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Look, you may not realize this is a total ripoff, but I installed a network, so I do.

    Just one?

    These people are buying T1s for hundreds of dollars a month, then selling us a lousy 3Mbps for $80/mo.

    T1 = 1.544 Mbps. UltraLink = 3Mbps
    T1 = $400/mn UltraLink = $80/mn

    Now, I understand good and well that the Ts are shared, etc, etc, but please -- on its face, this is hardly a ripoff.

    That's a rediculous amount of profit!

    Rediculous profit? Is that when you have massive losses? (Sorry, bad accounting joke.)

  5. Re:What is the big deal? by redtape · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    As I understand it, a T1 is 1.544Mbps (grated both ways, but it is a total), this give you 3Mbps DL. DOesn't this mean that you are getting about 2 T1s down at $80 per month, when they are payin, by your estimate "hundreds" for a T1?
    (A friend has a T1 for his business and pays somewhere between $1400 and $1800 per month.)