$50 a month for 1Mbps: How AT&T and Verizon rip off DSL customers [telecom]

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AT&T and Verizon force copper customers to pay fiber-level prices.

By Jon Brodkin

Tens of millions of people in the AT&T and Verizon service territories can only buy slow DSL Internet from the companies, yet they often have to pay the same price as fiber customers who get some of the fastest broadband speeds in the US.

That's the conclusion of a new white paper written by the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), a broadband advocacy group.