AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff

Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by dm2 on Monday April 21, 2014 @02:33PM (#7622743)

I had an AT&T salesman come to my door just a few days ago to try and sell me their new "fiber" they had just installed in my area (I'm in a large city mentioned in the article), telling me all of the benefits of having fast internet. I had to lie and tell him I didn't own a TV in order to get him to stop talking about the 300 channel TV/internet bundle.

When I finally squeezed the actual speed of it out of him the answer was 18 Mbps, for $60 a month (of course he could get me a special deal of $40 for the first 3 months, which is the same deal as on their website).

I've used them before (AT&T Uverse) and they require an ATT router/modem, for an additional fee of course, even though using their hardware is technically completely unnecessary.

I actually told him that Time Warner was currently cheaper and more reliable than what he was offering, which is true unfortunately.

AT&T is a joke.

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by xhrpost on Monday April 21, 2014 @02:36PM (#7622768)

They run fiber to their Uverse nodes and then apparently tell their salespeople to sell this as a feature. I remember one telling me the benefits of a "fiber optic signal" somehow going to my house over copper. I still ended up switching later on since they're cheaper than my local cable provider, though network performance doesn't seem to be as good.

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by cones688 on Monday April 21, 2014 @03:39PM (#7623170)

> benefits of a "fiber optic signal" somehow going to my house over copper

This is what is sold in the UK a lot, its called fibre to the cabinet (FTC) and does indeed make a difference, if your cabinet is on the street corner (100m) that beats the 1 mile maybe to the actual exchange as a lot of internet speed is dictated by the decay one gets with copper signals.

[0] http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/fibre-broadband.html

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by JonFish85 on Monday April 21, 2014 @03:34PM (#7623147)

Maybe they're using Monster cables, for a better digital signal? (Kidding, hopefully obviously)

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by deeviant on Monday April 21, 2014 @03:41PM (#7623185)

Nay, ATT would need 2x the GDP of the entire universe to acquire enough Monster Cable for that.

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Re:AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat ... by deelowe on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:46PM (#7623697)

And since it's uverse, you get >=30ms instant latency YAY!

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