you have to watch out for the so called introductory offers for a year then it goes thru the roof. im still on the hunt to cut that cable but keep my high speed. I see Google fiber has come down. might give em a call see if they have just a TV plan. it is a racket
My little city will never be big enough for Google Fiber. ATT is advertising fiber in my town and will claim 1000mbps, but that is just to "nodes". The ATT Fiber™ goes directly to the house, whereas the ATT Fiber, is just to the node. ATT enjoys confusing people by stating both are 1000mbps. ATT Fiber™ will never make it to my small city and why should it? ATT owns DirecTV.
I have no clue as to what you are saying except that yes, AT&T does own Direct TV now. I was happier before I switched from AT&T TV though, I liked it better, now I have a dish on my roof. Only reason I switched was to save money but in the end you never do...it always slowly crawls back up to what you were paying before they got you a great deal.
Not really..maybe when I first got it but what do I know....I only watch TV at night when I go to bed. In fact the day it was installed...I had an 8:00 am appt and he was there and almost fisnished when Direct TV had a major outage and he couldn't finish the install til 7:00 PM that night. I was kind of upset about that. The worst part was that he hung around til noon just waiting because he didn't know when it would go back on but then he had a 1 o'clock appt and left til much later.
that the reason I never had a dish. many people complain of black outs and ive seen it happen. and saw they're reactions
ATT Fiber™ and Google Fiber are both 1000mbps upload/download to your house and neither require a satellite dish. ATT Fiber (sans trademark) delivers 1000mbps to a node. As people connect to that node, the speed decelerates. A lot of people are complaining about this drop in internet speed, when the fine print states this will likely happen. Many are now in the 40mbps range, which is lower than what they had with Spectrum. Also, this service requires a satellite dish, which ATT will gladly deliver DirecTV as part of the bundle. The bundle is likely near the price of ATT Fiber™ or more likely... above. Why should ATT spend significant money to upgrade to ATT Fiber™ and reduce revenue? The problem in my area with satellites... is dropping of signals during heavily overcast days, during storms, etc. The 6PM~Midnight seems to be a peak period of the day for this type of signal disruption.
I have AT&T Uverse and have had it for around 10 years. Never had any problems except for the constant price hikes. Last year I had My TV portion of the Uverse bundle changed to Direct TV...a two year contract to save money. I don't have outages that I know of but after a year the price has creeped up to $154. I may just live with that for a year and then get rid of all TV and home phone and just have internet because thats all I use anyway....and just my iPad. I'd rather pay for Netflix and some stations separately and just watch them on my iPad....that's what I do now anyway.
You're talking to a dumb blonde, @Harold Hayden ....the only fiber and nodes I understand are in health.
We lose our satellite every time we have a thunderstorm. When there are tornado warnings, this is when we most want to have the television so we can watch the weather that is approaching us in case they do spot a tornado. Thankfully, we bought a nice antenna from Amazon last year and Bobby installed that on our roof; so when we have bad weather, we switch over to the antenna. Truthfully, I think that you have the very best plan of all, @Chrissy Cross , and that is what we are going to do also. We probably would have done that before; but there was all of the election stuff going on, and the debates, and Bobby wanted to be able to watch everything on Fox News, which we can't get without the cable or satellite. Comcast kept raising their prices, too, and Sam's Club had a special for DIRECTV, so we changed over. Now, Bobby seldom even watches Fox; so there is really nothing that we can't get that we want to see , and the satellite is just wasted money each month.