CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XL: AT&T CEO says no one wants $10 DSL
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 3rd 2007 8:52PM
posted August 3rd 2007 8:52PM
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson apparently subscribes to a different school of marketing and demand than most others -- speaking with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the telecom boss flatly denied that AT&T's $10 DSL plan is hidden on the company's website, and went on to say that "customers haven't been clamoring for it," and that since the 768Kbps "user experience is not what I would consider really state of the art," he doesn't really want to sell it to anyone. Of course, customers don't usually clamor for a product that barely anyone knows is available and that requires absurd hoop-jumping just to get set up, but don't let them pesky facts get in your way, Randy.[Via Techdirt]
No one signs up because it's fake. At lease in our area. I tried to sign my parents up for this option, they qualified on both counts. However the web site then went on to ask their phone number to check to see if DSL was available in their area. It said, sorry no DSL available in your area. I then tried to sign up for the more expensive plans, same question, what's your phone number. Low and behold DSL was available now!!!!
They live the middle on a large city. The reason I had to try to set them up was because the web site does not work at all on Mac with Safari. ATT is just a bunch of liars and cheats reneging on their promises
Be happy with the service that you guys are getting. We folk that live out in rural areas are stuck with (not even) 56K dialup, and a message saying that we have yet to get coverage out of your part of town. Here I sit, watching the smaller towns or townships get DSL coverage while they ignore our pleas. Cable? Forget it. Last mile and it's ugly. Wireless? too many oaks around muffle and screw up the signal.
Just give us our frickin DSL and be done with it.
Bellsouth(well AT&T) DSL sucks anyways........I hated it cause it kept resetting.......they said I could get a static IP for like $15 more per month and that would keep my connection from doing that...........damn that I killed my DSL and went with Road Runner........I have faster upspeeds(4.5Mbs/s) and downspeeds(9Mbs/s).........and for less than what I was paying for that crappy DSL
You guys are VERY cheap and quite honestly don't know what you are talking about. A tech needs to come out to install the local loop at the NID. When you order, more techs have to setup the connection. Techs earn about $35 an hour. This includes driving time dumb dumbs. Then of course since many of the people who sign up for this service would be switching from dial-up. These people tend to use tech support services more than other subscribers. Trust me I know I work for an ISP. Ex dialup users will call their ISP for just about any reason. Because they get a virus, because their modem light blinked... Quite rediculous honestly. Plus do you think wires are free? Ever try running a line on poles 10 miles. Hummmmm??? I guess all those telephone poles are free too right? BTW AT&T does not own its bandwidth in all parts of the country and must pay up to $800 or more a month for up to 1Mbps 95th Percentile raw bandwidth. Don't believe me? Go try and buy raw fiber bandwidth then. You should all quite your bitching. AT&T after all with its Bell labs did invent most of the telecommunications technology that you are using right now at this moment.
Hate to tell you but Your way Off. I am a Field Tech for a fiber optics company provideing FTTH.(fiber to the home) using ONT's. I am corning single mode fiber Certfifed. several of the techs in my company used to work for brighthouse, comcast and AT&T. Installers EVEN FIELD TECHS DO NO GET PAID 35 an hour. Starting pay is $12 an hour and pay cap is $25 an hour. Bright house in florida Pays Peace work. between 50 - 75 per job completed. The people who get paid ok money are the Network techs in the NOC. or if your a regional manager. so just to put it this way. that installer going to your house is more then likey getting paid peace work. 50 dollars per install. or between 15-18 dollars an hour. DSL is easy I can have a DSL connection done within a half hour. that includes installing a NID if the customer has a old or damaged one. i've seen the price list for equipment. it's between 35-50 dollars for a DSL NID. copper wire $2. and sure they are paying for the company truck and gas. what maybe another 10-20 per job? and then the modem. about 50. and dsl filters. another $2. so they are paying around $130 per install. which means the $10 service that person has to be a customer for about 1.5 to 2 years for them to turn over a profit on them. Bandwidth costs AT&T basically nothing but the electric bill once the infrastructure is built. lets not forget AT&T owns most of the upramps to the internet. they are not paying 20k for each OC-3 line they have. so they lose a litle bit of money on each job. but It's not going to break them.
and if you intrested about who i work for I work for this company.
http://www.cnxntech.com
I looked on their site as a noncustomer and couldn't find it at all
Can you believe I live in downtown San Diego, CA and AT&T does NOT offer DSL for my area?