$10 DSL

AT&T $10 DSL Today

We’ve confirmed with AT&T HQ that the company is offering $10 768kbps DSL starting today across their 22-state footprint (new customers only, one-year contract and bundled landline required). The $10 DSL was something they agreed to offer as a BellSouth merger condition, but unless they plan on issuing a Saturday press release later today, they apparently don’t intend to tell anyone (via website, press release, or via any other form) that they’re actually offering it.

The merger condition required they offer the price point for 2.5 years. Unfortunately it appears it didn’t require that AT&T actually tell anyone about it.

So you can get discount DSL, if you live in the service area, and can figure out how to get the company to allow you to get the price they proposed to the court to bolster their case for merger approval. It sure would be nice if you could deal with companies that didn’t seem to have teams of lawyers kept busy trying to figure out how to say one thing while tricking customers out of as much money as possible. It seems to me we are getting less and less ethical. We just accept that companies are going to try and trick customers into paying as much as possible. My belief that you should just provide an honest service or product at a fair price seems to be some quaint old idea 🙁 But since that seems to be the case you have to treat companies as though they are going to trick you in any way they can. Be careful out there.

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  1. SuccessWarrior Avatar

    You have to read all the fine print, ask all the right questions, and chances are that you still won’t understand the trick they have played until you get your first bill in your new year long contract.

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