Living with slow home internet is a punishment that courts would likely rule cruel and unusual, assuming the victims ever get a consistent enough signal to send off an email pleading for help. But as a new report from the National Digital Inclusion Alliance points out, customers nationwide who still subscribe to slow DSL home internet services get screwed over twice: Firstly, with slow speeds, and secondly, with prices that don’t make any sense.
AT&T still chargers ADSL customers $60 a month for access to a service that varies between 6Mbps and 10Mbps down, the report notes. At the same time, AT&T’s cable offering costs $60 per month for speeds upwards of 50Mbps. Verizon does something similar, charging its ADSL customers $63 or $64 a month, while its 100Mbps fiber service is $65 a month, S---ers...LOL