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AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 08 2015, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-big-to-fail dept.

AnonTechie writes:

AT&T is promising to offer cheaper Internet service to poor people if it's allowed to buy DirecTV. This is similar to a promise that helped Comcast gain government approval of its 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal.

Qualifying residents in areas where AT&T's top speeds are below 5 Mbps (that's not a typo) will be offered DSL service of "up to 1.5 Mbps, where available" for $10 a month, AT&T said in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission last week. It'll be $5 a month for the first year before rising to $10 for the next three years. AT&T is proposing a four-year commitment in total.

In areas where AT&T's top speeds are higher, the company said it "will offer a broadband wireline DSL service at speeds up to 5 Mbps to households in AT&T's wireline footprint for $10 per month for the first 12 months of service (rising to $20 per month for the remainder of the term of the commitment)."

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/07/att-will-give-poor-people-1-5mbps-dsl-for-10-if-us-allows-directv-merger/

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:34AM (#206685)

    "Business as usual"
    "The American way of doing business"
    "The Free Market"
    "Crony Capitalism"

    USA taxpayers already paid Big Internet $200B to get 50Mbps. [pbs.org]
    So, how's that going for you?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:18AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:18AM (#206707) Journal

    Never forget that URL.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bill Dimm on Thursday July 09 2015, @04:02AM

    by Bill Dimm (940) on Thursday July 09 2015, @04:02AM (#206778)

    Your link seems to go to an article about the EU fining Microsoft.