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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>>Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>
>>>No real point to this message, but feel like posting it.
>
>>>There was some discussion recently about the Uverse service from AT&T and
>>>areas where ONLY the internet part of it was available, no phone or
>>>cable/video service.
>
>>>It's just marketing.
>
>>>They appear to have re-badged DSL, calling it Uverse. 
>
>>confirmed.  I just did the check availability at my place, same thing,
>>"Uverse is available!!", but not TV or phone, just internet and it's the
>>same old DSL packages they've always had.
>
> Not phone? Amazing.
>
> They told me different in my area, that if I changed to Uverse, I'd get
> phone that way, too, so VoIP which I didn't want (not at AT&T's rates).

like bruce said, they're rebranding the plain old DSL as Uverse in areas
that do not have the new stuff yet.  This was not the "uverse" DSL packages,
it was the same old DSL packages they've had forever but available on the
uverse page.