AT&T Phone--Advanced (home phone)

dilettante

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.
 

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