AT&T Plans to End Their Satellite DIRECTV & Focus on Streaming
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Nope, no DSL no Cable. NADA. We put an antenna on our house with a cell phone repeater on the second floor. Without that, we cannot even get cell service. That is our only connection to the Internet.
true, but some of us have tried both and prefer the content on directv.
i guess if i had no other choice i would have to go back to dish.
satellite internet is an abomination. latency, bandwidth restrictions. its better to deal with cell if you can get a signal
We had Satellite Internet for one year.. Worst internet year of our lives. It was horrible horrible horrible. and in our area, we only qualify for 12gb per month. The cell service internet works and is MUCH better than satellite, the problem lies in the data CAPs that both SATELLITE and CELL impose which makes TV streaming impossible.
I agree with all of the above posts. Internet, these days, is getting to be more and more as important as any other utility. Kids need it for school. It's much harder to run a business without it and people are demanding more on demand information on weather, news, etc.
comfortably_numb the company that I get fiber through, their smallest package is 25MB/s for 29.99. I promise that if they knocked on every door in your town or any other rural town, 99.9% of the people would sign up ASAP. I have a friend who lives in Finland. I know, much smaller than the US, but just about every where has Government supplied high speed internet, according to him.
I know, Socialism! Ugh! lol
comfortably_numb the company that I get fiber through, their smallest package is 25MB/s for 29.99. I promise that if they knocked on every door in your town or any other rural town, 99.9% of the people would sign up ASAP. I have a friend who lives in Finland. I know, much smaller than the US, but just about every where has Government supplied high speed internet, according to him.
I know, Socialism! Ugh! lol
We get it fine, we just had to spend about 300 bucks in a cell antenna on the roof and a repeater within the house to allow cell devices within the house to utilize that antenna wireless within the house. Without that antenna, we loose service.
Is your cell service through Verizon, by any chance? They now have an unlimited data hotspot plan on the prepaid side
Post me a link. There is usually small print. I have not heard of TRUE unlimited hotspots let alone unlimited without tethering. There is a cell phone on the second floor tethered to a laptop which shares the internet to everyone in the house. I usually have to reboot the darn thing every day. It is a no streaming household and a no online gaming household. That's the only way we can stay below the data cap in which case our internet slows to uselessness.
Since the point is about AT&T dropping sat tv service, you wouldn't have any other sat service choice.
It seems to be a truly unlimited hotspot plan with full 1080p video streaming. I am thinking of trying it out myself as I have a Verizon tower in close proximity. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page: Prepaid Cell Phones & No Contract Plans | Verizon Wireless
Remember the grants to telco's to provide "Highspeed" Internet service to rural areas? One of the problems is defining highspeed, the telcos would lobby for as low a speed as possible to make it so that DSL met the definition at 3Mbs where the groups representing the users would lobby for much higher speeds in the range of 20-25Mbs. Guess who won? That's right the ones with the money. So 3Mbps met the definition of highspeed.
Scroll down to "Tablets & Jetpack Plans" on the link below. The $65/mo with auto pay plan is subject to deprioritization on congested towers, but only for the period of the congestion. My AT&T unlimited plan is also subject to deprioritization on busy towers, but it has never interfered with our streaming.
Prepaid Cell Phones & No Contract Plans | Verizon Wireless
Can you even access most web sites with dial up?
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My prepaid Verizon plan allows me to use my phone as a hotspot and my data cap is 60gb before they even look at my account to throttle.
So what is the big advantage of this NEW ATT streaming service over Dish's Sling TV, which is already available NOW?
