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AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL
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.'"
A quantity of states is provided in numeric form, but how about a list?
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
$27 for shipping? Are they out of their fucking minds? For $27, I expect it to be hand delivered to me same-day by a hot female courier, with a big ol' sloppy blowjob thrown in to boot.
It's $10 a month, with an additional feature of sending all your packets directly to the NSA at no extra charge!
Oh yeah, you can't opt out of that feature. It's a bundle.
Funny. My AT&T heartache story has to do with moving, too.
I moved from the third floor to the fourth floor of a builiding. AT&T wouldn't move my phone service insisting that there is no fourth floor in my building. AT&T claimed it was only a two-story building, which doesn't explain how it was able to hook up phone my original service on the third floor. AT&T refused to send someone out to verify the building had four stories. One hypothesis they proffered was that it was a new building. Nope. The building is older than AT&T.
I ended up getting Roadrunner and Vonage since AT&T for some reason didn't want my money.
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
That's the "handling" part.
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