AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite.

AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite.

  • sartalon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    Moved to a new location. Options were Cox, who had 1Gbps+ service over coax or something like 30 Mbps with AT&T. For similar pricing. I hate both, but no shit I’m going with Xfinity. Keep asking AT&T if they are ever going to get fiber. Nope, nope, and nope. But they keep sending folks by, trying to sell shitty internet along with satellite tv.

    Fast forward a few years. Ezee Fiber comes through, I drop Cox the second they can plug into my house.

    Not two weeks later, AT&T comes knocking, “Hey, we’ve got fiber now, want to roll with us?”

    Haha, fuck off. (I didn’t say that, dude’s just trying to make a paycheck, but I was thinking it when I politely said no thank you.)

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yeah I hate that shit. „Oh no its not profitable“ … „wait there’s competition?“

  • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    AT&T always sucks. Worst ISP I ever had.

    They hate building anything that benefits the public. They will always not improve the infrastructure if they can avoid it.

    • Marx2k@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I dunno. We got at and t fiber to the home, terminating in the basement this year.

      It’s been rock solid.

      We had spectrum before that and that shit went down multiple times a day.

  • sp3ctr4lEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Rememinder that as of 2015, the US taxpayer has given $400 billion to ISPs/TelCos on varying conditions boiling down to ‘improve internet infrastructure and access’, and they … didn’t.

    … And no one ever held them accountable.

    http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BookofBrokenPromises.pdf

    Please remember that basically every large monolithic US corporation that currently exists got to their status by being hugely, absurdly subsidized by the US taxpayer, and the US taxpayer’s reward is basically always worse service/product at increased cost.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Meanwhile, Spain, the second largest country by surface in Europe has completely phased out copper lines in 24. Yes I realize that the distances are a lot smaller than the US, but it’s not like talking about the Netherlands. You are guaranteed fiber in bumfuck La Mancha.

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Meanwhile, Germany had plans for fiber in the 70s(!) but the following chancellor had a relative in the copper business ._.

  • RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Ah, so that’s why AT&T stopped fiber upgrades in my town in 2022 or last year. Which is disappointing to say the least, and I live on a main road too.

    Hopefully this won’t lead to Spectrum (my current provider) shuffling their feet on implementing high split service, now that their main competitor is opting for inferior 5G home internet for half their customers. High split would allow for symmetrical upload/download and faster than gigabit speeds.