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AT&T Internet Services is a d/b/a name for 5 companies that provide Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 service.

Companies

The following companies provide AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

 Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 service:
  • Ameritech Interactive Media Services
    Ameritech Interactive Media Services
    Ameritech Interactive Media Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of AT&T that provides AT&T Yahoo!-branded Internet services to AT&T customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin....

  • Pacific Bell Internet Services (Pacific Bell
    Pacific Bell
    The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was the name of the Bell System's telephone operations in California. It gained in size by acquiring smaller telephone companies along the Pacific coast, such as Sunset Telephone & Telegraph in 1917...

     and Nevada Bell
    Nevada Bell
    Nevada Bell Telephone Company, originally Bell Telephone Company of Nevada, was the Bell System's telephone provider in Nevada. It only provides telephone services to 30% of the state, not including Las Vegas, where service is provided by CenturyLink...

    )
  • Prodigy
    Prodigy (ISP)
    Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features.Initially subscribers...

  • SNET Diversified Group
    SNET Diversified Group
    SNET Diversified Group, Inc. is one of the companies owned by AT&T that provides AT&T Yahoo!-branded Internet services to customers located within Connecticut.It does business as AT&T Internet Services....

  • Southwestern Bell Internet Services
    Southwestern Bell Internet Services
    Southwestern Bell Internet Services, Inc. was one of the companies owned by AT&T that provides AT&T Yahoo!-branded Internet services to customers located within Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas....

  • AT&T Worldnet
    AT&T WorldNet
    att.net is a web portal and Internet service provider from AT&T, Inc..- AT&T :ATT.NET is a consumer web portal provided by AT&T, Inc...



The following company provides AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

 FastAccess Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 service in the Southeast United States:
  • BellSouth Telecommunications
    BellSouth Telecommunications
    BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC is the Bell Operating Company of AT&T that serves the southeastern United States. It absorbed the operations of South Central Bell in 1992....

  • AT&T has officially started assigning the att.net domain and AT&T Yahoo!
    AT&T Yahoo!
    AT&T Internet Services is a d/b/a name for 5 companies that provide Internet service.-Companies:The following companies provide AT&T Internet service:*Ameritech Interactive Media Services*Pacific Bell Internet Services...

     Internet
    Internet
    The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

     service in the AT&T Southeast (BellSouth Telecommunications
    BellSouth Telecommunications
    BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC is the Bell Operating Company of AT&T that serves the southeastern United States. It absorbed the operations of South Central Bell in 1992....

    ) Region.


E-mail addresses from these companies typically end in "att.net", with older addresses retaining, respectively:
  • ameritech.net
  • bellsouth.net
  • pacbell.net, nvbell.net
  • prodigy.net
  • sbcglobal.net
  • snet.net
  • swbell.net

AT&T Yahoo!

AT&T Yahoo! is an information service sold by AT&T Internet Services. It is a partnership between AT&T, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. to provide co-branded dial-up
Dial-up access
Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network to establish a dialled connection to an Internet service provider via telephone lines...

 and DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
Digital subscriber line is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop. In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ,...

 Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 service.

The AT&T Yahoo! high-speed service is only offered to customers who receive telephone service from AT&T in the former SBC service areas. Customers of the former BellSouth
BellSouth
BellSouth Corporation is an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S...

 will still be provided broadband under the FastAccess DSL service during AT&T's integration of BellSouth.

From 2003 to January 1, 2006, the ISP was known as SBC Yahoo!; because of the SBC and AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

 merger, its name was changed.

Other ISPs owned by AT&T include Prodigy
Prodigy (ISP)
Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features.Initially subscribers...

, whose customers were urged to migrate to the SBC Yahoo! service, and AT&T WorldNet
AT&T WorldNet
att.net is a web portal and Internet service provider from AT&T, Inc..- AT&T :ATT.NET is a consumer web portal provided by AT&T, Inc...

, which still exists after the SBC/AT&T merger to serve customers not in SBC's existing service areas. AT&T also used to provide broadband Internet through cable under its AT&T Broadband
AT&T Broadband
AT&T Broadband was the name of AT&T's cable operations, which were composed of the assets of TCI and MediaOne, Prime Cable, as well as two Comcast cable systems AT&T acquired later in a system swap. Formed in 1999, AT&T Broadband was the largest provider of cable television services...

 division; that division was sold to Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

 in 2002.

Yahoo! also provides Internet service with other companies besides AT&T, such as Verizon and Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...

 in Canada as Verizon Yahoo! and Rogers Yahoo!, with BT Yahoo! in the UK for BT Group
BT Group
BT Group plc is a global telecommunications services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest telecommunications services companies in the world and has operations in more than 170 countries. Through its BT Global Services division it is a major supplier of...

respectively.

Coming caps

Beginning May 2, 2011, all DSL customers of the company will be subject to a monthly use cap of 150GB. The company began sending users notice of the change in Terms of Service on March 18, 2011. The plan for charging when a user exceeds their limit is to begin doing so if the account exceeds the limit three times over the life of the account, and will be $10 for every 50GB of overuse for DSL users.

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