AT&T Internet

Broadband internet service

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August 2 2021 The spinoff of DirecTV was completed. AT&T TV (which became DirecTV Stream) and U-verse TV became wholly owned services of DirecTV.
November 2020 AT&T Dial services were terminated.
October 2020 AT&T stopped selling new DSL connections, beginning to phase out outdated services. At mid-2020, the company had about 650,000 total DSL connections.
April 3 2020 AT&T announced that U-verse TV would no longer be available to new customers, with new customers receiving AT&T TV for TV service.
2019 The Synacor deal was ended, and the contract was awarded to Verizon Communications, which had previously purchased Yahoo!. The 'Currently from AT&T' branding was introduced.
2019 AT&T rolled out a 100% Fiber Network Powered by AT&T Fiber Live in 84 Metro areas.
August 2019 In selected markets, AT&T began replacing AT&T U-verse TV with a new service based on its DirecTV Now platform, AT&T TV.
June 30 2017 AT&T email accounts ceased to automatically function as Yahoo accounts.
April 25 2017 AT&T reported a loss of 233,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2017.
September 19 2016 AT&T rebranded its broadband and VoIP phone services, renaming 'U-verse' to 'AT&T Internet' and 'AT&T Phone', while maintaining the AT&T U-verse TV brand. 'AT&T Fiber' was adopted as the brand name for fiber-based internet service.
May 4 2016 AT&T announced a new contract with Synacor to take over the majority of its in-house internet services, while Yahoo would continue to provide email services.
2014 AT&T launched AT&T Fiber in Austin, Texas with initial 300 Mbit/s internet speeds, which later increased to 1 Gbit/s (1000 Mbit/s).
May 2010 Final migrations of customers to the Yahoo! portal were completed.
April 15 2010 Completion of WorldNet account suspension process for accounts not migrated to alternative services.
April 5 2010 AT&T began suspending WorldNet accounts that had not been migrated to other services.

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