Thursday, September 07, 2006

ATT arrogance remains

Two recent examples.

1. The Federal Government as of the end of June 2006 no longer collects USF fees on dsl lines from phone companies. AT&T kept charging for it anyway until August 15, and never gave their CSRs the correct information to relay to customers.

2. As part of the conditions to allow SBC to buy AT&T, it was deemed that it should start to sell "naked" dsl, i.e. dsl without the requirement of a "POTS" phone line for voice. Current pricing is $44.95 for the dsl service that sells for $12.95 with a voice line.

Not exactly what the FCC had in mind?