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23.07.2008« [telecommunications — телекоммуникация — telekommunikation]
usa — at&t moving to tiered internet tariffs
AT&T Inc says it is to introduce a new tiered mechanism for providing different speeds of internet access. From October the firm will split its internet access products into separate tiers based on achievable end-user speeds rather than the current system of basing tariffs on peak download rates. ‘When AT&T provides broadband service by speed, it will do so in discrete, non-overlapping tiers,’ said AT&T’s Senior Federal Regulatory Vice President Robert Quinn. ‘We will strive to provide service within the speed tier purchased by the customer and, if we find that we are not providing service within the ordered speed tier, AT&T will take action either to bring the customer's service within the ordered tier or give the customer an option to move to a different tier.’
Source: TeleGeography's CommsUpdate
at&t
AT&T Inc. is a provider of telecommunications services in the United States. It offers its services and products to consumers in the United States, and services and products to businesses and other providers of telecommunications services worldwide. The services and products that it offers vary by market, and include wireless communications, local exchange services, long-distance services, data/broadband and Internet services, video services, telecommunications equipment, managed networking, wholesale services and directory advertising and publishing. Its traditional wireline local exchange subsidiaries operate in 22 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin (22-state area). In March 2008, Black Box Corporation acquired AT&T's NEC TDM voice CPE business line in AT&T's southeast region.
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