AT&T Broadband Introduces Tiered Pricing

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."

Comments

What a rip-off.

[Radi-0-head]

As a current Time Warner Roadrunner customer, I get a consistent 2014 kbps down and 360 kbps up for $44.95 a month. At twice the price, their new offering is far from a good deal.

Of course, with the exception of Salt Lake City, most of the initial launch cities contain a population that typically has more money than brains... I'm sure more than a few morons will bite for that extra megabit just so they can say they have it -- "broadband envy"?

Re:What is the big deal?

[zangdesign]

1. Who are you to determine what a "ridiculous amount" of profit is? Alan Greenspan? The arrogance implicit in your statement is astounding.

2. AT&T buy a T1? ROFLMAO!

3. Try contacting your government representative about this. Your congressperson will be laughing about that for a couple of minutes and then forget about it.

4. And more to the point -- there's a lot more investment that goes into providing service on a large-scale basis than just stringing up a network. A lost of it has to do with paying some person who is ostensibly qualified to sit and watch it for hours on end so they can be miserable at 3 a.m. when your connection goes down.