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Countless of all Americans reside in broadband seas with no access to anything resembling contemporary online services. But few individuals have it as bad as people who have to rely upon AT&T’s early DSL network.
Kathie McNamee of Raymond, Mississippi is among the unfortunate AT&T DSL clients. McNamee stated that she pays AT&T $35 per month to get a 768kbps Internet program that seldom works nicely enough to be useable for herhusband, and two teenaged sons. McNamee contacted Ars after reading a story about AT&T wrongly asserting that particular houses in Mississippi had access to broadband if actually AT&T is not capable of supplying service to all those addresses.
AT&T has obtained over $283 million in the Federal Communications Commission as 2015 to expand home-Internet support to over 133,000 possible customer places in Mississippi. AT&T says it’s going to surpass that necessity from the end-of-2020 deadline, however, the business’s mapping mistakes have caused unpleasant surprises for clients who believed they would acquire broadband.
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