AT&T Internet Services
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AT&T Internet Services (previously SBC (Southwestern Bell Corporation)) is a d/b/a name for 5 companies that provide Internet service.
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[edit] Companies
The following companies provide AT&T Internet service:
- Ameritech Interactive Media Services
- Pacific Bell Internet Services (Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell)
- Prodigy
- SNET Diversified Group
- Southwestern Bell Internet Services
- AT&T Worldnet
The following company provides AT&T FastAccess Internet service in the Southeast United States:
- BellSouth Telecommunications
- AT&T has officially started assigning the att.net domain and AT&T Yahoo! Internet service in the AT&T Southeast (BellSouth Telecommunications) Region.
E-mail addresses from these companies typically end in "att.net", with older addresses retaining, respectively:
- ameritech.net
- bellsouth.net
- pacbell.net, nvbell.net
- prodigy.net
- sbcglobal.net
- snet.net
- swbell.net
[edit] AT&T Yahoo!
AT&T Yahoo! is an information service sold by AT&T Internet Services. It is a partnership between AT&T, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. to provide co-branded dial-up and DSL Internet service.
The AT&T Yahoo! high-speed service is only offered to customers who receive telephone service from AT&T in the former SBC service areas. Customers of the former BellSouth will still be provided broadband under the FastAccess DSL service during AT&T's integration of BellSouth.
From 2003 to January 1, 2006, the ISP was known as SBC Yahoo!; because of the SBC and AT&T merger, its name was changed.
Other ISPs owned by AT&T include Prodigy, whose customers were urged to migrate to the SBC Yahoo! service, and AT&T WorldNet, which still exists after the SBC/AT&T merger to serve customers not in SBC's existing service areas. AT&T also used to provide broadband Internet through cable under its AT&T Broadband division; that division was sold to Comcast in 2002.
Yahoo! also provides Internet service with other companies besides AT&T, such as Verizon and Rogers Communications in Canada as Verizon Yahoo! and Rogers Yahoo!, with BT Yahoo! in the UK for BT Group respectively.
[edit] Coming caps
Beginning May 2, 2011, all DSL customers of the company will be subject to a monthly use cap of 150GB. The company began sending users notice of the change in Terms of Service on March 18, 2011. The plan for charging when a user exceeds their limit is to begin doing so if the account exceeds the limit three times over the life of the account, and will be $10 for every 50GB of overuse for DSL users.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Bode, Karl (13 March 2011). "AT&T To Impose Caps, Overages". DSLReports. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Exclusive-ATT-To-Impose-Caps-Overages-113149. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
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