New AT&T winback promotion offers qualified customers one year free AT&T | DISH Network
Here's exciting news about one of the biggest access line winback promotions in AT&T's history.
Through the end of January, customers who switch back to an AT&T access line from a competitor and purchase AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and AT&T All Distance get our AT&T | DISH Network America's Top 60 package, which normally costs $34.99 a month, free for 12 months.
That's a savings of more than $400 for the year.
Customers who want to purchase a more expensive AT&T | DISH Network package can use the $34.99 as a credit toward the entertainment package of their choice.
In order to qualify, customers must commit to a two-year term agreement and purchase or upgrade to a triple play which consists of the following services:
- AT&T All Distance
- AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Basic or above
- AT&T | DISH Network America's Top 60 (AT60) or above
Now is the perfect time to share the news of this great promotion with your friends and family who may have left AT&T.
If you do sign up for this service please use the code "SD1254"
The truth about this is “Nothing is for FREE”. For all of the AT&T phone users, formally SBC, you are actually paying for Dish Network with AT&T’s bundled deal of Phone, DSL and Satellite services for $99 for the 1st year. Dish Network packages are AT100, AT200, AT250 and the Everything PAK. On ATT.com’s webiste as of 3/18/2007, you will notice that they only specify the AT200, AT250 and $20 additional for HD paks. The Truth is now being Told !! The AT100 pak is hidden in the $99 offer, that package is $34.99 with locals and only support 2 TV’s in the House, for the other 1-2 tv’s if you have them would be an additional $5.00 per month. AT&T’s unlimited local and Long Distance $30 as advertised on their site with the Elite DSL $34.99 and their FREE Dish Service AT100 #34.99, you DO THE MATH.. What NEW Marketing scheme will AT&T come up with Next.. FREE Cable, I don’t think so, because they are trying to compete with Comcast’s Triple Play at $99 for Phone, Cable and TV. The Truth is AT&T’s bread and butter is their DSL. The scoop is the Higher the Dish Network Plan you choose the Slower the AT&T DSL Package Speed you get. Truth, AT&T is getting you on a 2 Year Plan with their DSL. Why not sign up for a 1 year plan by not getting DISH Network thru them ?
Call a Local Retailer for Dish ! And by the way AT&T will bill you for Dish and you will not get a Detailed Bill as you would with Dish Network. Don’t you deserve to see a Detailed Bill, so you know exactly what you are paying for ? Do NOT be FOOLED…
“What NEW Marketing scheme will AT&T come up with Next.. FREE Cable, I don’t think so, because they are trying to compete with Comcast’s Triple Play at $99 for Phone, Cable and TV. The Truth is AT&T’s bread and butter is their DSL. The scoop is the Higher the Dish Network Plan you choose the Slower the AT&T DSL Package Speed you get.”
Comcast… Seriously? I applaud your spirited rant. Unfortunately, that is about all I can find in your dialogue that actually states the facts. First of all, you are quite confused on the technologies being implemented by ATT. The REALITY rather than “The Scoop” is that DSL services are wireline based, Dish Network is radio wave based (satellite). There is exactly ZERO relationship between the two services in regards to performance.
You are obviously speaking of ATT U-verse when speaking of any performance relationship shared by high-speed internet and television service. If so, you are absolutely correct. The ATT U-verse package utilizes FTTN to bring standard telephone, DSL and IP based television services to the home on a single pair of wires.
With this service, the customer receives approximately 24 MB of dedicated bandwidth, HD television service, the largest channel selection in the market, a dedicated IP address, complete connectivity between the television service and your home computer, remote management, built-in wireless routing, hardware DMZ and firewall, and complete control over bandwidth allotments.
Each regular television requires 1 MB of bandwidth and each HDTV requires 4MB. Let’s say your home has 2 HDTV’s and 2 regular TV’s… That requires 10MB of your bandwidth which leaves you with 14MB for your DSL. Do the math.
ATT isn’t attempting to compete with Comcast. Comcast is scurrying to keep up with not only ATT but Verizon as well.
Unauthorized Charges on Your Local Phone – Utility Bill?
How to Find Them, Eliminate Them & Get Your Money Back!
If your business still gets its phone service through the old “AT&T and Verizon, etc” local phone company (as opposed to one of the newer competitive phone providers) then you need to double check your phone bill each and every month for charges you did not authorize. You may not know it but the local phone company allows other companies to bill you through your local phone bill. And while the local phone company allows other businesses to bill you through your local phone bill, the local phone company does not verify that the charges being billed to you by the other company are valid. When these unauthorized charges fraudulently appear on your phone bill it’s called “cramming”. Unfortunately you as the business owner or manager are the only one that can spot the unauthorized charges and if you don’t comb over your bill every month to spot these unauthorized charges – you’ll pay for them.
Why does the local phone company allow other companies to pass charges onto your phone bill? “Third-party billing” is supposedly a great convenience in that you only have to pay one bill instead of separate bills for obvious authorized phone related charges like yellow-page advertising in the “real yellow pages”, 411 information calls and long-distance calls from your chosen long distance carrier. Over the years though, some less-than-scrupulous companies have realized that most businesses rarely scrutinize their local-phone bills. To take advantage of this, these companies have come up with elaborate schemes to place
unauthorized charges on your phone bill that you’ll end up paying for without even thinking. Unauthorized
charges you can end up paying for include charges for unwanted (and unused) email accounts, web sites,
directory information calls, directory advertising in obscure publications, voice mail accounts and other
services.
In theory, before these charges can be placed on your phone bill, the company that is originating the third-party billed charges is supposed to have a verification of the order like a voice recording. In reality though,
all the company needs to do to initiate the charge is submit your name and phone number to the billing
entity. The verifications are only required to be produced if a complaint is filed.
To prevent these charges from appearing on you business phone bill it’s helpful to understand the four
parties that make unauthorized third party phone charges a costly reality. Party number one is any
employee who can answer your business phones. The unauthorized charge is rarely random and it usually
happens after one of your company employees gets a telemarketing call. Employees should be instructed to
document and report any overly aggressive telemarketing calls they receive. Party number two is the
telemarketing company that originates the unauthorized charges by trying to get your employee to accept
some service for which you’ll be billed through your local phone bill. Party number three is the third-party
billing company that has billing agreements with your local phone company. The name of the third-party
billing is the one that is prominently displayed on your phone bill. After the third-party billing company’s
name is the name of the company that is originating the unwanted charges. Party number four is your “former Ma Bell” local phone company that collects the unwanted charges (keeps a share for “Ma”) and then passes the rest to the third-party billing company (who keeps a big share) and then passes the balance on to the company that initiated the unwanted charge.
Following are some of the top third-party billing names and unauthorized charge originators you’ll find on
your phone bill. If you see these names on your phone bill you’ll want to call the toll free number listed next to the charge to confirm it’s a charge that’s been properly authorized to be placed on your bill. Following are actual examples that we’ve recently found while auditing business phone bills.
We recommend customers should review any utility bills issued by deregulated utility companies. (In most instances today, consumers are paying higher charges to the deregulated gas and electric supply companies).
All Utility – Energy, gas, electric and water bills should be reviewed for proper reading and tariff.
If you suspect that you have been overcharged ask for detailed explanation and or file a complaint with your State Utility Commission.
Compiled by: Jay Draiman, Utility & Telecom Auditor
When I dropped my long distance with my land line, they merely switched me to AT&T Long Distance and charged me for their long distance minimum service (over $8 with NO calls made). I went through the odyssey they call customer support and was told they had removed the charges. The next bill I was charged $9 to have my long distance changed. Humiliation, wasted time, is still free at AT&T .