Tonya and PQBON's WebLog

Boycott AT&T

Opinion: Sticking with AT&T? You're a fool
The implication is that AT&T is making a profit from selling the data to the federal government. And that profit must be substantial; after all, there are clearly many customers who are dropping AT&T services as a result of this proposed change. (Including me -- I actually stopped a switch to AT&T's Cingular cellular services when I heard of this development.) Clearly, AT&T will lose business by implementing or even announcing such a profound change in privacy policies. I can only imagine how much money AT&T is receiving from the government for all those records if they believe it's worth the hit.

Tonya and I am in the process of transferring all of our service from AT&T as our contracts expire. Today Comcast is installing a business class cable connection with 5 static IP addresses. To get static addressing and the permission to run a server from comcast you need to be a business customer. However, with a contract the business link is the same a highspeed DSL link with static addressing from AT&T. As a Business customer you get priority service and downtime reimbursement. We will also be moving to ComCast digital phone service. It is based on VOIP but isn't tied to internet service. This will make us a an all ComCast home. The only final AT&T service is Cingular. We are stuck for another year with them. I find it vary unfair that companies can change a contract out from under you and you can't decide that the new terms aren't OK so you want to terminate the contract. :-(

UPDATE: The cable and cable modem have been installed. I'm getting somewhere between 20 and 9 Mbps download. On upload I'm getting 512 to 768 Kbps on upload. PQBON.COM is still on DSL. For now I'm testing the cable connection by using it for internet access but so far so good. If this goes well, I will recommend that anyone who has dsl that might be involved with AT&T move to cable internet.