![]() That’s a good thing for the potentially 3 to 6% of the U.S. Verizon and such smaller telecom firms as Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) and Frontier have not announced plans to sunset their own DSL. That decline has put AT&T narrowly behind Verizon in this slower slice of the market that New York firm reported 661,000 DSL connections in its second quarter, versus 6.298 million Fios fiber-optic connections. “AT&T basically gave up on fighting cable over a third of its territory” said Dave Burstein, editor of the trade publication Fast Net News. Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst at the research firm Leichtman Research Group, wrote in an email that two years ago, AT&T had just over a million DSL customers. The company has seen DSL subscribers steadily dwindle. The latter, sold as “AT&T Internet,” combines fiber trunk lines with DSL last-mile connections for faster speeds. “I am, however, very disappointed that AT&T has no interest in replacing DSL in rural areas with some other technology.”ĪT&T reported 653,000 total DSL connections at the end of its second quarter, compared to 14.48 million on its fiber-optic and hybrid-fiber services. “I'm really not surprised that AT&T is phasing out DSL, as it's an obsolete technology,” emailed one soon-be-stranded DSL subscriber, retiree Jack Mangold of Collettsville, North Carolina. WiFi woes: Slow video games? Blurry video chats? Here are 5 simple tips to fix your slow internetīut the technology that provided many people ( myself included) their first real broadband still works to provide an always-on connection and far more capacity than satellite connectivity. Masks compliance: Now that President Trump tested positive for COVID-19, will shoppers be more compliant with mask mandates at stores? The company doesn’t sell downloads faster than 6 Mbps, less than a fourth of the 25-Mbps minimum definition of the Federal Communications Commission and further cramps their utility with stringent data caps of just 150 gigabytes. “Current DSL customers will be able to continue their existing service or where possible upgrade to our 100% fiber network.”ĭSL – a broadband connection delivered over old copper telephone lines – is no prize at AT&T. “We’re beginning to phase out outdated services like DSL and new orders for the service will no longer be supported after October 1,” a corporate statement sent beforehand read. 1, AT&T stopped selling digital-subscriber-line connections, stranding many existing subscribers on those low-speed links and leaving new residents of DSL-only areas without any wired broadband. One of America’s largest internet providers is uploading its oldest broadband technology into the sunset. Watch Video: Coronavirus: How access to the internet is not created equal
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