I'm a legacy DSL customer because nothing else is available in the foothills where I live. For 34 years I had a landline, and then about 15 years ago when ATT offered DSL service up here, it ran through the same land line. Recently I decided to cut costs (they were charging $69 for the land land and $59 for the very lousy DSL which they still have but don't maintain very well. If I'm lucky I get 3 Mpbs, sometimes 5. They told me they just "couldn't" separate the two services. So I filed an FCC report (in which I said ATT was forcing me to buy a phone service I don't use) about it, and lo and behold, less than 2 weeks later they must have leaned on ATT to meet my request to have a DSL only line at a cheaper rate. ATT got on it and kept contacting me from their top offices, so for unknown reasons FCC must have really been on their case. I even got FCC replies telling me to notify them if things weren't resolved! It took about 2 weeks for ATT to sort it out, but I just got a new bill and instead of being $ 59 if was for $10, which is more or less what their slow service is worth.
The bad thing is that since I have a "legacy" DSL line (they will no longer install DSL for new customers up here) I've been told they can cancel it at anytime, and worse yet, there are no plans for installing fiber optic lines up here and nothing else is available either unless I install a hot spot type service all on my own...buying the modem and getting a signal from a cell tower.
All I can say is that I am gobsmacked at the near immediate action I got from the FCC. Why they were so efficient I'll never know.
Yep...lousy DSL, and 5 MBPS is faaast for where we are too. My bill is $70 for landline and internet. It will more than double for fiber optic internet and a 'landline'. That is total BS that I didn't ask for. I might just go with Starlink, just to see if they will lower my bill. We have a teeny phone company that makes their money off the government tit for installing phones where no phones have gone before, like a little town in the mountains of Idaho called Yellowpine. We live in FL part time and the noise is just awful ALL the time. Sirens, aircraft and the noise of streetlights and pollution it causes as well. There is just no getting away from the 'always on' feeling. Now you can't even go sit in your car to get away if it is a newer model because there is always something electrical buzzing it up inside us. My fridge drives me absolutely crazy with the constant hum. Now I sound totally crackerdog...haha.
I'm in the sticks too but my small ISP has a fiber running this way so they offered it to everyone in the area. I'm lucky to get 20mb where I live but I fell within range of the DSLAM. I can't go any higher. I also have to have the telephone service but it's for emergencies because the cell service is awful out here. I've actually used it more for faxing. I'm not sure if they offer Naked DSL aka dry loop DSL connection. It's 145 dollars. A friend of ours lives a litter further can only get dial up. 56k but she uses it and says it's painful to wait for pages to load. LOL They do offer Starlink where I'm at and it would be $120 month and $599 for hardware. The download speed is 25-50mb upload is 5mb
I'm a legacy DSL customer because nothing else is available in the foothills where I live. For 34 years I had a landline, and then about 15 years ago when ATT offered DSL service up here, it ran through the same land line. Recently I decided to cut costs (they were charging $69 for the land land and $59 for the very lousy DSL which they still have but don't maintain very well. If I'm lucky I get 3 Mpbs, sometimes 5. They told me they just "couldn't" separate the two services. So I filed an FCC report (in which I said ATT was forcing me to buy a phone service I don't use) about it, and lo and behold, less than 2 weeks later they must have leaned on ATT to meet my request to have a DSL only line at a cheaper rate. ATT got on it and kept contacting me from their top offices, so for unknown reasons FCC must have really been on their case. I even got FCC replies telling me to notify them if things weren't resolved! It took about 2 weeks for ATT to sort it out, but I just got a new bill and instead of being $ 59 if was for $10, which is more or less what their slow service is worth.
The bad thing is that since I have a "legacy" DSL line (they will no longer install DSL for new customers up here) I've been told they can cancel it at anytime, and worse yet, there are no plans for installing fiber optic lines up here and nothing else is available either unless I install a hot spot type service all on my own...buying the modem and getting a signal from a cell tower.
All I can say is that I am gobsmacked at the near immediate action I got from the FCC. Why they were so efficient I'll never know.
Yep...lousy DSL, and 5 MBPS is faaast for where we are too. My bill is $70 for landline and internet. It will more than double for fiber optic internet and a 'landline'. That is total BS that I didn't ask for. I might just go with Starlink, just to see if they will lower my bill. We have a teeny phone company that makes their money off the government tit for installing phones where no phones have gone before, like a little town in the mountains of Idaho called Yellowpine. We live in FL part time and the noise is just awful ALL the time. Sirens, aircraft and the noise of streetlights and pollution it causes as well. There is just no getting away from the 'always on' feeling. Now you can't even go sit in your car to get away if it is a newer model because there is always something electrical buzzing it up inside us. My fridge drives me absolutely crazy with the constant hum. Now I sound totally crackerdog...haha.
I'm in the sticks too but my small ISP has a fiber running this way so they offered it to everyone in the area. I'm lucky to get 20mb where I live but I fell within range of the DSLAM. I can't go any higher. I also have to have the telephone service but it's for emergencies because the cell service is awful out here. I've actually used it more for faxing. I'm not sure if they offer Naked DSL aka dry loop DSL connection. It's 145 dollars. A friend of ours lives a litter further can only get dial up. 56k but she uses it and says it's painful to wait for pages to load. LOL They do offer Starlink where I'm at and it would be $120 month and $599 for hardware. The download speed is 25-50mb upload is 5mb