AT&T Phone--Advanced (home phone)

dilettante

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Has anyone else gotten the promotion for this?

AP-A is a "box" that you can plug your standard analog home phone into, and it relays between that an AT&T Wireless cellular service and/or broadband Internet (if you have it).

AT&T Phone – Advanced | AT&T Home Phone

I think they are trying to do whatever they can to get people off the old copper lines, because they plan to stop servicing them area by area as soon as they can thin out the last customers.

$45/month plus tax with Long Distance, $50 if you need International calling. "Act now, $189 equipment shipped free." You can transfer your existing home phone number to this service. I'm not sure if you can do a trial and then transfer the number later.

I've watched the basic setup video, and it looks fairly trivial if your stuff is arranged so the cords reach. It needs a power outlet but has battery backup for outages... as long as your phone does not require power. ;)

Supposedly it can work with existing house wiring, but that requires a service visit, probably with a fee.


While the box has multiple phone jacks, it seems to be a small business device, and each of the 8 jacks is for a separately billed line and number.

Setup video here:

Set up AT&T Phone - Advanced
 

I have AT and T phone and Internet. I haven't heard about what you are speaking about yet. Maybe it's not in my area. I get a discount on Internet but my phone bill always has so many taxes and fees attached to it. I only get 200 minutes a month too and the bill is still too high. I wish there was an alternative but all these companies now a days are too expensive.
 
dilettante said:
Set up AT&T Phone - Advanced
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Looks quite similar to Consumer Cellular's Home Phone Base unit. Try as I may, I can't see any use for such a device. When Race Communications brought their fiber optic service into the area, everyone dropped Frontier's(formerly Verizon's) copper service like a bad habit. The landline is on the fiber optic network, costs $20/mo., I would be happy to dump it, mostly spam/garbage calls, DW doesn't want to give it up.
 

Note that this is not a cell phone and the residential service doesn't provide any Internet access. The device appears possibly capable of this, but the feature doesn't seem to be in use.
 
Well I have now gotten the same promotion letter 3 times, and our PSC no longer requires that carriers provide and maintain copper landlines.

They might be trying to tell me something.
 
Well I may be gone before it happens here, hard to say, ATT has
been on my "F" list for years, ever since they sold me on fibre
optic internet when they had not put any fibre cable in the
town at all !!! I still have a landline, for basic service only....
 
Ruthanne said:
I have AT and T phone and Internet. I haven't heard about what you are speaking about yet. Maybe it's not in my area. I get a discount on Internet but my phone bill always has so many taxes and fees attached to it. I only get 200 minutes a month too and the bill is still too high. I wish there was an alternative but all these companies now a days are too expensive.
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Cricket, 4 lines, unlimited $100 a month
 
I suppose that it depends where you live but I dropped my landline about 1O years ago and have no regrets.

My iPhone and Consumer Cellular have provided me with excellent service and reliability.

I would focus my energy and spending on letting go of the old and embracing the new.
 
I was an AT&T customer for almost 30 years, and when we moved to Edison I did not sign back up with them. Spectrum Internet is 16.6 times faster and and $20 a month cheaper, and I no longer have a landline. I still have one of their Motorola Router / Ethernet Modems for their ultra fast 6Mbps accounts (well, I paid for it, so technically it's mine not theirs anymore, but it's useless anywhere else) if anybody wants it. It might good for a skeet target if you could throw it high enough.
 
dilettante said:
Has anyone else gotten the promotion for this?

AP-A is a "box" that you can plug your standard analog home phone into, and it relays between that an AT&T Wireless cellular service and/or broadband Internet (if you have it).

AT&T Phone – Advanced | AT&T Home Phone

I think they are trying to do whatever they can to get people off the old copper lines, because they plan to stop servicing them area by area as soon as they can thin out the last customers.

$45/month plus tax with Long Distance, $50 if you need International calling. "Act now, $189 equipment shipped free." You can transfer your existing home phone number to this service. I'm not sure if you can do a trial and then transfer the number later.

I've watched the basic setup video, and it looks fairly trivial if your stuff is arranged so the cords reach. It needs a power outlet but has battery backup for outages... as long as your phone does not require power. ;)

Supposedly it can work with existing house wiring, but that requires a service visit, probably with a fee.


While the box has multiple phone jacks, it seems to be a small business device, and each of the 8 jacks is for a separately billed line and number.

Setup video here:

Set up AT&T Phone - Advanced
Click to expand...
My parents have had an AT&T/Bell landline at the same address since 1962 with very few complaints. At some point
they migrated to AT&T Uverse, and got internet along with the phone on a landline wire, still no problem. In
November they got a letter from AT&T saying they were doing away with all wired service in their area (in central
Indiana), so I ordered the suggested replacements for them (AT&T Internet Air, and AT&T Phone Advanced). Internet
Air works fine, is slightly cheaper than their internet over Uverse, and 4x as fast) AT&T Phone Advanced was a
different story. It is supposed to work via a cell phone signal, rather than wire. I ordered it on 11/09/2025, It
came on 11/17/2025 via FedEx which we had to be home to sign for (no exceptions) The equipment activation date was
11/19/25, so on 11/20/25 we followed the instructions, and IT DID NOT WORK. The equipment was not able to make a
connection to a cell tower (though the cell based internet air could), so I called the "help" number in the
instructions. Every call you spend 30 minutes to an hour on hold. between 11/20/25 and 12/3/2025 I made 14
different calls where they gave me various answers, finally the person said that there was a provisioning problem
and tried to contact tier 4, but they were out the entire week of thanksgiving, and to call back the next week.
called that next week, and the tier 4 people told me that AT&T Phone Advanced was not available in my area, and
they would switch the phone number back to the Ucerse service which doesn't currently work because the buried
cable is now bad.They told me this would let my folks keep their phone number assigned until AT&T Advanced phone
was available in their area in mid to late January 2026.

I have had a Consumer Cellular base phone for 2 years now, it provides the same exact service as AT&T Phone
Advanced, it worked right of the box, and has never given a moments trouble. It costs $50 per month and EVERYONE
you call to ask questions is a native english speaker located in the US. I also have cell phone service with
Consumer Celular. The cost of the phone was about the same as AT&T, but the monthly charge was only $35 at the time
I got it, and remains the same today, while my old ATA& cell phone was $70 a month.
Do what you wish, but I'm getting away from AT&T as quickly as possible, and so are my folks.
 

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