Telecommunications company AT&T Inc. announced today that, starting next month, it will raise the price of its most common broadband Internet services in many of the states where it operates. The $5-per-month hike will apply in all but the states acquired with the buyout of BellSouth and will affect customers who have the company's three slowest broadband tiers, ranging from 768 Kpbs to 3 Mbps, said AT&T spokesman Michael Coe. The company decided to raise prices for some of its customers "to better reflect the value of our broadband service" as demand continues to grow for high-speed Internet services.
The price increase goes into effect in March, though affected customers have been getting notices via e-mail or in their bills since late last week.
News source: AP
The price increase goes into effect in March, though affected customers have been getting notices via e-mail or in their bills since late last week.
News source: AP
I'm gonna call BS on this one. They just want more money. That's all.
I'm gonna call BS on this one. They just want more money. That's all.
They want more money for the bandwidth... and more restrictions on how you use it after you pay for it. The extra revenue will probably be spent to implement new filters to kill P2P traffic
I'm gonna call BS on this one. They just want more money. That's all.
i rofled so ****ing much when i read that
its already a rip off, now they want more? LOL
north amercia will never get the speeds of europe and asia at this rate
Dumbest thing I've read yet today... The psycho candidate with single-digit numbers is going to fix everything... Yeah...
Dumbest thing I've read yet today... The psycho candidate with single-digit numbers is going to fix everything... Yeah...
Yeah, he's a psycho because he wants to reduce the size of the federal gubment, lower taxes and gives us back our freedoms. Yeah, psycho is right.
That is a myth. Capitalism's history more than proves that that is a myth as well.
Not if they buy them out instead.
Another myth. They may have started as socialist but by the time they gained power they were fascists instead. Remember North Korea also calls itself The Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Are you saying that they are a democracy as well?
I always think, that is why I don't fall for myths like you do. It is quite apparent that you don't have one clue about how modern capitalism actually works in the real world. You probably also believe that America is in good shape under it as well now. If it weren't for the government stepping in there wouldn't be an real competition left at all, and of course no consumer protections at all either. A free market is a fiction.
But they don't. This is borderline price gouging. In most area you have only one or two providers and they compete to which one will raise the price higher before consumers give up.
Comcast just did the same in my area hiking all its prices for TV and internet by $3-4 on EACH service. And the BS comment was that it was to improve service... yeah right.. $55 per month for analog service of average quality at best. And let me tell you I did not see any improvement.
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