If you’re an AT&T broadband customer, that sound you hear is your bill inflating. For no good reason other than to “better reflect the value of our broadband service”, AT&T is hiking up your price by $5 a month.
This is in reaction to shareholders who blasted the company’s stock, after CEO Randall Stephenson said that there was weakness for AT&T in that market because of many customer’s choosing to pay their mortgages instead of their Internet bills. Jacking up prices in an already unstable market sounds like just the ticket, as it lets responsible payers, and those who are capable of paying, take up the slack for those who aren’t or can’t. Thanks, Randy!
AT&T hikes broadband prices [Yahoo! News]
Dude are you serious? Does anyone with business/tech knowledge edit this web site? If you were trying to make a joke, it wasn’t funny. If you were trying to make actual business analysis, you might want to rethink your life’s direction.
I don’t think all those disconnects are just from people not paying their bills. I think it may just be people who just don’t like their broadband and telephone coming in on the same old pair of copper wires. You know…I used to be a cable splicer for NJ Bell many years ago in the 80’s. Back then everyone at managment level was saying Bell (later Bell Atlantic then later NyNex of course now AT&T) was going to be bringing fiber to the curb. Most of the splicers were being trained to splice fiber and the cherry job assignment was to be on the roving fiber splicing team that traveled through out the state installing glass. A very clean job compared to splicing copper lines in the man holes of Jersey City, Bayonne and Hoboken. Anyway fast forward 20 some-odd years and here I am in San Antonio with the same old crappy pair of copper wires coming into my house from a cross connection box one mile away. Fiber to the curb, my eye! I’m one of the customers that left AT&T for the Time Warner telco/tv/broadband package. Cry in your milk Ma Bell.