GadgetRatty: DSL down to $10/month from Verizon and AT&T

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DSL down to $10/month from Verizon and AT&T

2008-09-03 19:11:32 by Gadgetress in Gadgetress

I spotted this a few days ago and am finally remembering to mention it: Verizon is giving away 6 months of DSL Internet service for free, with several catches of course.

But if you compare this promotion to AT&T’s current one that offers a $10/monthly discount, you wind up paying about the same price for either service: $120 for 12 months.

Verizon’s catchy campaign pushes the free factor in that if you sign up for one year, you’ll get six months of free DSL.

The catch: You have to be a current Verizon home-phone customer (current DSL customers not eligible), you must commit to one year (at a minimum of $19.99 a month for remaining 6 months), there’s a one-time $19.99 shipping and activation fee, and it’ll cost $79 if you cancel the service before the year ends. Oh, and after you subscribe for a year, the monthly fee could go up. And one other thing: the service is slow (for most of us) at up to 768 kbps download speeds and 128 kbps upload. For $10 more per month, Internet speeds quadruple to 3 mbps plus you’ll get a free router so you can share the Internet with multiple computers.

By comparison, AT&T’s basic DSL service is now $19.95 per month and offers similar speeds (768 kbps down, 384 kbps up). There’s no annual commitment and you don’t need AT&T’s home phone service. However, if you do commit to one year and have AT&T home phone service, you’ll get a $10 monthly discount, which brings the price for a year to $120 or the same price as Verizon’s above offer. The caveat to either AT&T plan: You’ll need to spend $50 to $80 on a modem.

(But one really nice bonus AT&T offers to subscribers is free access to Wi-Fi at AT&T hotspots at Starbucks.)

$10 a month is pretty good for DSL, especially if you’re paying that much for dial up. I know you dialers are still out there. I just checked the stats for OCRegister.com and noticed that about 3.8 percent of our visitors last month approached by modem. Wow.

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