Released: June 19, 2007

Quietly, AT&T discounts DSL

Source: Kim Hart, Washington Post (Free Registration)

Companies usually like to promote their best deals. Not so with AT&T, which over the weekend started offering high-speed Internet service for about half its normal price in some states. The $10-a-month-deal, which was not advertised on the airwaves or on AT&T’s corporate Web site, was part of a deal AT&T struck with regulators in exchange for approval of its $85 billion merger with BellSouth.

The discounted plan is to be offered for at least 30 months and requires a one-year contract and local phone service. With basic phone service included, the monthly cost totals about $25.

To win approval for its merger late last year, AT&T agreed to several conditions, bowing to pressure from some members of the Federal Communications Commission who wanted safeguards for consumers.

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