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October 2020 | AT&T stopped selling new DSL connections, beginning to phase out outdated services.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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