AT&T surreptitiously adds $10 DSL plan

Psst. You scouting a deal on DSL service? Apparently AT&T has exactly what you need, but it isn't apt to come right out and say it. After a bit of link hunting, we were able to confirm that AT&T (well, BellSouth) looks to be offering up its FastAccess DSL Lite service for a paltry $10 per month so long as you ink your name to a twelve month agreement. The service will purportedly provide maximum speeds of 768Kbps downstream and 128Kbps on the flipside, and even allows new customers to take advantage of the free modem promotion. Unfortunately, the deal is only valid for those who "have not previously subscribed to AT&T or BellSouth's high-speed internet" in the past, but for those searching for a cheap portal to the 'net, this looks to be as good as it (currently) gets.

[Thanks, ksadd]

[randy @ Jun 18th 2007 8:15PM]

Eh.. Ten dollars if you bundle it with bunch of other crap, like POTS.

[Pamela @ Jul 16th 2007 10:17PM]

You are too funny. I am just now diving in for this experience. I have already spent about as much time just finding this to find the deal (:O(

[Steve G @ Jun 18th 2007 8:21PM]

I will never subscribe to another AT&T service until they rethink their privacy policies and stop fighting against Net Neutrality. They're bad, $10 or not.

[Will @ Jun 18th 2007 9:19PM]

you do realize that most every telecom giant is on the same side as AT&T in the whole net neutrality deal right? what, are you just gonna stop subscribing to the internet at all?

[Jumbie @ Jun 18th 2007 8:37PM]

BellSouth sucks.

My sis has it in Florida cause it's the only ADSL available in her area and it's really expensive IMO for the crappy speeds. She only has the base plan cause it's all she needs for e-mail, etc. (doesn't download movies and stuff) but it's pretty crap and the next step up, while better, isn't worth the extra expense. They need to offer something intermediate.

Plus, I've read one sites like DSLReports that they cap speeds like mad.

[Jumbie @ Jun 18th 2007 8:37PM]

BellSouth sucks.

My sis has it in Florida cause it's the only ADSL available in her area and it's really expensive IMO for the crappy speeds. She only has the base plan cause it's all she needs for e-mail, etc. (doesn't download movies and stuff) but it's pretty crap and the next step up, while better, isn't worth the extra expense. They need to offer something intermediate.

Plus, I've read one sites like DSLReports that they cap speeds like mad.

[Adrian Williams @ Jun 19th 2007 12:44AM]

ATT dont cap I have never read that on BBR

[Jumbie @ Jun 18th 2007 8:38PM]

Whoops. Sorry about the double-post. Wasn't showing up when I refreshed the page so I submitted again.

[Low @ Jun 18th 2007 8:44PM]

I have Bellsouth. ;_;

[Calvin @ Jun 18th 2007 9:23PM]

Dear god, this looks awesome. Plus this is the current price of my moms Dial-up so it's a huge plus. just hope they don't speed cap, and stuff like that other dude said. I wonder what the speed of their regular service is, it's $10 more so it should be twice as fast.

[Faerder @ Jun 18th 2007 9:30PM]

This only in the old BellSouth region or everywhere ATT offers service?

[Adrian Williams @ Jun 19th 2007 12:46AM]

Everywhere I just tried my aunts # and she live in Chicago it's 10 bucks for a one year contract and 15 without

[T-Will @ Jun 18th 2007 9:38PM]

Sounds like a SWEET deal, but I don't think I could live with that little bandwidth. The other problem is I don't need a POTS line in my house, so I think I'll end up going with Comcast once I move.

[Bill @ Jun 18th 2007 9:45PM]

I just ordered it to replce $45/month cable (no, cable wouldn't lower their price)

Minimum 30 months at this price as part of the merger agreement.

I didn't see a promo offer for free modem on this price plan - please post a link for that deal (I did order their DSL modem for $75)

I'm plan to do this so I only have to install one DSL filter:
http://www.dslmodemsdirect.com/DSL%20Configuration/NoWireHomeRun.htm

[T @ Jun 18th 2007 10:03PM]

$10 a month to get spied on, no thanks

[Wayne @ Jun 18th 2007 10:21PM]

This was written about in FL newspapers last year (December I believe). It was part of the FCC agreement for BellSouth and AT&T to merge.

[Anthony @ Jun 18th 2007 11:04PM]

I went to the site & it said, "this service is not available in your area. would you like to upgrade?" I said yes & then got "you cannot upgrade at this time..."

[Jamus @ Jun 18th 2007 11:17PM]

Forget about the $10 forced FCC/FTC requirement for a sad slow connection. Forget about giving us 20Mb connections.... Just give me a $20 - 25 1.5Mb connection for pete's sake!

[JP @ Jun 18th 2007 11:29PM]

Your World. Delivered. To the NSA.

[ITR @ Jun 18th 2007 11:51PM]

I have the 3MB DSL service from BellSouth and it actually spikes above 3MB's from time to time.

[Keaton @ Jun 19th 2007 12:21AM]

You freaking cares about downstream speed? Everyone in the know, knows its the upstream speed that matters... 128 Kbps / 768 Kbps for $10 a month... Bring it on!

[kirby @ Jun 19th 2007 5:23AM]

Heh,

I still say nothing beats open Wi-Fi, Wep too ;)

[gerbick @ Jun 19th 2007 6:59AM]

If only it didn't include the POTS line; this would be a pretty decent deal.

[Galley @ Jun 19th 2007 9:35AM]

Since BellSouth doesn't offer Naked DSL, I have a home phone line. The service is a reasonable $15/month, plus an additional $1 of miscellaneous fees!

[tcc3 @ Jun 19th 2007 11:51AM]

Dont that have to offer it naked? This was part of the same merger agreement that brought the $10 DSL. I hate these damn bundles and limited time discounts.

[nzaw4 @ Jun 19th 2007 3:45PM]

Where can i find the link for the 10$ Monthly service? I can only find that 763/128 on att's website for 14.99 and on bell souths for 19.99. Anyone want to shed any light on this?

[DocSavage @ Jun 19th 2007 4:28PM]

I just ordered DSL 5 days ago, at the $19.95 price. After arguing with AT&T they WONT grandfather me in to the $10 price, but did offer me one month free. I even said I was going to cancel my subsription.

One thing they did mention is that if I do cancel I might be able to get back in under the $10/mo plan if I wait 60 days until I am "no longer in the system"

Is anyone else in this situtation and gotten any better resolution?

I mean come on, I just signed up and installed it over the weekend. Darn corporate pirates.

Doc

[nzaw4 @ Jun 19th 2007 4:47PM]

just spoke to bell south, they only service the south eastern parts of the US, if your anywhere else ur screwed.

[Tony @ Jun 19th 2007 5:28PM]

Here's the link: http://www.bellsouth.com/consumer/inetsrvcs/inetsrvcs_agreement_plans_pop.html.

[nzaw4 @ Jun 20th 2007 3:27PM]

thanks for the link, but does anyone know if you arent in the south east, can we still get this promotion? Im in CA

[nzaw4 @ Jun 19th 2007 7:05PM]

Just found out that it is nation wide, not just bellsouth, it is for all of ATT! woot ordering mine today!

[Rusty @ Jun 19th 2007 10:24PM]

I'd just be happy if the death star would FINALLY offer naked DSL.
I don't use a home phone, haven't in 3 years. Once a month I dial one
of those prerecorded numbers just to eat some time on the voice side just
to use up some space. Hell, they are making me pay for it, might as well
use it.

[Kevin @ Jun 20th 2007 12:36PM]

Checked the site and couldn't find the link for the special. And then I tried to see if I was even in the area for the $19.95 and it come up a big fat no. I can sign up for Worldnet but I've been down that mess before getting slow (

[Jason @ Jun 20th 2007 11:12PM]

I have cox high speed internet which is much faster then DSL plus they have the same offer with their phone and has a better upload speed, i still love my 41.95 price because it is 1 mbps faster than dsl at their highest speed of 6 mbps plus i have it sometimes hit up to 9 mbps with speedboost from cox. its great!

[PHIL GREGORY @ Jun 22nd 2007 6:47PM]

ACCORDING TO THE NEWSPAPER REPORT AT&T IS MATCHING THIS $10 SERICE PLAN TO THEIR $19.95 PLAN WHEN IN REALITY IT MATCHES THEIR $14.95 PLAN. AT&T DID NOT WANT ANY SORT OF FANFAIR BECAUSE THEIR MKT. DEPT. WILL TRY ANY THING TO GET NEW BUSINESS AS LONG AS THEY CAN AVOID OFFERING THIS SAME PLAN TO THEIR OLD CUSTOMERS. SENIORS WOULD LOVE TO BE ON THIS PLAN.

[Paul @ Jun 29th 2007 10:09PM]

Not a bad experience

The $10 DSL was specifically listed in the ATT to FCC consession letter (I used Google to get a PDF of the letter from the FCC web site after just after the merger) as promoting broadband. The offer was supposed to be for former Bellsouth customers. I have seen conflicting info for availabilty elsewhere.

Bellsouth was the greedy baby bell that made you pay something like 24.95 per month for a DSL lite that was actually DSL ultralight (5x dialup as I recall).

I was waiting for the offer since the 6 month clock in the letter was about to run out. The day after I heard it was available, I signed up (Wednesday). The free modem got here Monday. The installation failed (no DSL sync).

After a long wait on the hold, the phone support guy went through his check list & he decided a technician visit was required. They offered to send a guy the next day, but I scheduled the visit for Thuresday 8-12 so I could be home.

He showed up at 9:00, found that my house was not getting DSL, went to a connection box a couple of blocks away & fixed a wiring problem. My DSL (660 k tested speed) was running by 10:00. An hour or so later I set up my $39 Wireless G router (I could of gotten one from ATT for an extra $5 per month, but they are just too cheep to not buy).