Might be a big difference.

My service has gone downhill since they took over Southwestern Bell. When it was SBC, if I had a problem the phone was answered by the third ring, I didn't have to wade through 10 minutes worth of options and I talked to someone here in Austin. It never took more than 15 minutes total time to get the problem resolved. Now it takes 15 minutes to finally get a real person in India reading from a script. On the SBC website you could enter your phone number and find out if there were service problems in your area-that disappeared when AT&T took over.
Every month there's a new fee tacked on the bill. My bill for landline and 6 mbps DSL went from $50/mo 5 years ago to $85/mo now. About 2/3 of that increase is all the fees they've come up with.
Like 3 different line subscriber fees on the same two wires. Of course here the options are AT&T or Time-Warner-not much of a choice. When I dropped their long distance, since I never used it, it had gone up to $10/mo with the fees, they charged me a one time $9 fee to turn it OFF.

I'm only getting 1.5 Mbps on their broadband service in Wharton. Livestreams are impossible and Internet service hangs up if my brother is watching porn on his laptop while I'm on YouTube.

once they disconnect that copper landline, you won't be getting it back. AT&T sucks bigtime. I just hate dealing with them.

I've told them a thousand times that I don't even own a digital television, much less have wireless equipment.

Really lousy customer service on my land line for years because they were too damn cheap to replace THEIR equipment. Each time I called for service it was liking jumping through hoops just to get an appointment. Over a two year period I had at least six service calls for the same problem. A couple of the techs told me unofficially that it was a fixable problem but the company was busy rolling out U-verse.

I still have a land line through my cable provider. It's cheap and always clear sound quality. To hell with AT&T.

In many areas. Like mine. And it sucked ass for the two weeks I had it.

Uverse is capable of providing phone service, television and high speed internet, mostly on fiber.

spend. some other time might tell of other dissatisfactions.

internet here and U-Verse is not one of them.

Our cell phone bill has only gone up about $6.00 over eight years, our
cable bill, on the other hand, has gone up $35.00 in less time and that is with us
dropping equipment and channel tiers.

I see many Seniors around my parts are going to antennas..We are considering doing the same
for much of our television coverage.

The Tikkis