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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)."
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:29AM
Yup. My "urge" has nowhere near the clout of a telco "campaign donation" or expense-paid junket.
Here's hoping more people will become concerned enough about politics to upset an apple cart or two.
I am talking about a lot of elections where neither the Repugnicrats nor the Dimmocans get in office.
Right now, they have gotten real good at playing to our fears of getting a real monster in office and play us off to choose between the bad and the ugly, and we haven't come up with a way to game that system to our favor.
We, the voters, have the numbers. We get what we vote for and what we will tolerate.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]