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There is a way out for AT&T U-verse customers stuck dealing with the company’s arbitrary 250GB monthly usage cap — sign up with U-verse reseller DSL Extreme for the same Internet access with no usage caps whatsoever.
Today, DSL Extreme announced the introduction of trueSTREAM in 21 states serviced by AT&T’s U-verse fiber to the neighborhood system. Much like Earthlink’s reseller agreement with Time Warner Cable, customers can transparently switch between the two providers and receive essentially the same service at a different price point.
The biggest selling point of trueSTREAM is that it has absolutely no usage limits.
DSL Extreme has signed a contract with AT&T to offer the service in states including California, Texas, Illinois, and Florida, among many others.
Customers don’t need to have a phone line to subscribe. They will need to lease a wireless gateway router ($6.50/mo) from DSL Extreme and the rate plans are similar to AT&T’s own U-verse broadband offerings:
Value ($17.95/mo) 768/384kbps- Plus ($22.95/mo) 1.5Mbps/384kbps
- Pro ($27.95/mo) 3Mbps/512kbps
- Elite ($32.95/mo) 6Mbps/768kbps
- Max ($37.95/mo) 12/1Mbps
- Max Plus ($42.95/mo) 18/1.5Mbps
- Max Turbo ($52.95/mo) 24/3Mbps
- Power ($62.95/mo) 45/6Mbps
- Power Plus ($92.95/mo) 75/8Mbps
Professional installation is now free of charge and an optional one-year contract delivers other extras, such as a static IP address. A Supplier Surcharge Recovery fee of $2.88 per month applies. Customers can pre-qualify on the company’s website.
The coverage area of trueSTREAM will extend the company’s reach overnight to 30 million potential customer locations, growing to nearly 60 million by 2015.
This is great news! Finally some competition to the monopolies! I just signed up. Installation is in a couple weeks. I’m so happy to support a company that does not have data caps! Goodbye AT&T and Cox. It was interesting when I called At&t the rep did not even know they had data caps, until she talked with her supervisor. She was very sure (At&t) that 250G was plenty for me. Who are they to tell me how much data I need! I have to pay to get out of my contract but it is worth it to support no… Read more »
If enough U-verse customers say goodbye over data caps, there probably won’t be data caps. They are just there to further monetize their operation, which is already quite profitable, and to appease Wall Street which seems to constantly ask broadband providers when they will cap their Internet plans.
AT&T SUCKS AND IS MONOPOLIZING THE INTERNET THANKS TO OUR DAMN CONGRESS WHO LET AT&T GET AWAY WITH——-BUYING DIRECTV—–TRYING TO MONOPOLIZE ALL THEY CAN. I HATE AT&T!!!!! DONT KNOW THEIR LEFT FROM RIGHT. THANK UR SENATORS FOR THIS LITTLE DEAL AS THEIR IS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE MONOPOLIZING—FIXING PRICES OUT OF SIGHT. TO FORMER DIRECTV CUSTOMERS. LOOK TO SEE UR RATES GO SKY HIGH AND POOR SERVICE AS SINCE THEY OWN AT&T AND DIRECTV—THEY CONTROL PRICES ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NEW WEARA OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT&T WILL TELL YOU “NOTHING WILL CHANGE”” I SAY BULL**IT AS WHY DO YOU THINK THEY BOUGHT DIRECTV… Read more »
They finally expanded to my area however in order to use their service, you need to either buy or lease their modem which makes using third-party devices out. That’s the only gripe I have about this.