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AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-what-i-call-broadband dept.

prostoalex writes "As part of the deal with the FCC to approve the AT&T/BellSouth merger, AT&T started selling, but not advertising, a $10-per-month DSL service in 22 states, AP has learned. 'The service provides download speeds of up to 768 kilobits per second and upload speeds of up to 128 kbps, matching the speeds of the cheapest advertised AT&T plan, which costs $19.95 per month in the nine-state former BellSouth area and $14.99 in the 13 states covered by AT&T before the acquisition.'"

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  1. I've been wondering by nlitement · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You can get 100/10mbit/s here (in Finland) for about $40/m.

    100+10 = 110 - Total bandwidth.
    0.128 + 0.768 = 0.896 - Total bandwidth.
    110mbit/$40 = 2.75mbit/$ - How much penis a buck buys you.
    0.896/$10 = 0.0896mbit/$ - How much penis a buck buys you.
    2.75-0.0896 = 2.6604 - Calculating the difference.
    2.6604/2.75 = 96.7418182% - The difference (per cent).

    The ultimate conclusion: Newsworthy DSL deals in the US tend to suck nearly twice as much as the better deals in some random country (Sweden has even BETTER deals).

    I didn't even consider all the silly bandwidth limitations or the actual price ($35) as some users pointed out, which would make it suck thrice as much. I'd expect more of a country that created this wonderful thing called Internet. What's the reason behind this? Sorry if this post offended anyone ): 3.