so...what's this gonna do for people like me...in rural, backwoods alabama where they pipe in sunlight....we have...*cough*DSL....
But it's 6meg down, half a meg upload...
I don't foresee AT&T scrambling to fix anything about their pitiful speeds in rural areas, but I could be wrong....
I think, like always, they will run crying to their lobbyists in DC with the "it's not fair" speech in-hand, and manage to get around any sort of requirement of them...
Or they'll do like they wanted a couple years ago, and sell their last mile copper POTS and DSL to some struggling company with barely enough capital to survive...essentially dumping their problem in someone else's lap.
But I bet they keep their fiber loops....just so they can charge access fees to the company that falls victim to buying their last-mile stuff.
I shouldn't have to buy 2 DSL lines, with 2 modems, separate networks, and divide up my broadband-hungry devices among the two DSL lines just to have a somewhat enjoyable time with my streaming devices.
And there are very few people who can afford to be extorted twice a month for the same service ...so they are stuck with even less than what I got.