{"id":39,"date":"2006-05-15T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2006\/05\/15\/what-happens-after-your-1-year-commitment-to-sbc-dsl\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:02:26","slug":"what-happens-after-your-1-year-commitment-to-sbc-dsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/what-happens-after-your-1-year-commitment-to-sbc-dsl\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens after your 1-year commitment to SBC DSL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Many people have asked me about a letter they have received after their 1-year commitment to SBC (now AT&amp;T) DSL is over. In the letter SBC has offered to continue their DSL on a month-to-month basis for a rate of $34.99\/month.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">What they don&#8217;t mention in the letter is that you can\u00a0call them and often get a much better monthly rate if you agree to continue DSL service for another year and\/or add other SBC\/AT&amp;T services to your phone bill. I have had SBC DSL for over 5 years, and my price for DSL has gone down every year. Several customers have reported that after I had told them to call for a better rate &#8211; they are now paying anywhere between $19 and $26 per month.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">Unfortunately I&#8217;ve heard that the rates being offered are not consistent between all the SBC customer service reps. If you aren&#8217;t offered a fair deal by one rep, you may need to politely say &#8216;no thank you&#8217; and call back to speak to a different rep. Some report that they received a good deal from the Customer Retentions Dept.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">If you are a Charter High-Speed Internet customer, I&#8217;ve been told that their customer retentions dept. will offer you a rate of $19.99\/month for 6 months if you mention that you want to switch away from Cable to DSL.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have asked me about a letter they have received after their 1-year commitment to SBC (now AT&amp;T) DSL is over. In the letter SBC has offered to continue their DSL on a month-to-month basis for a rate of $34.99\/month. What they don&#8217;t mention in the letter is that you can\u00a0call them and often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","category-computing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}