AT&T Website Glitch Reveals New U-Verse Tiers, Pricing

Users in our AT&T U-Verse forum have discovered an AT&T website glitch that reveals the names and prices for several U-Verse broadband tiers that have yet to be officially announced. In addition to listing existing U-Verse tiers including their recently-launched 45 Mbps "Power" tier, the website references what appears to be placeholders for 75 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 150 Mbps and 300 Mbps tiers non-promotionally priced at $91, $111, $155, and $199 per month.

The website link in question appears to have already been fixed. Until now, these faster speeds had only been mentioned in passing by AT&T executives.

"With our plant technology advancements, 90 percent of our U-verse customer locations will have the capability to receive what we project to be 75 Mbps -- and 75 percent will have the capability to receive up to 100 Mbps," AT&T CEO John Donovan said back in January. "Almost 80 percent of the IP DSLAM customer locations will have the capability to receive 45 Mbps, with about half of those having the capability to receive up to 75 Mbps."

The 75 and 100 Mbps tiers should appear sometime in the next six months to a year, though Donovan's availability projections are likely overly generous. As we noted last week, many users are finding they can't get AT&T's new 45 Mbps tier for a wide variety of reasons, most commonly the length of the copper loop running from your VRAD.

Anything faster than 100 Mbps will be reserved primarily for a relatively small number of developments that strike special deals with AT&T like in Austin, where AT&T's planning to offer 1 Gbps to a limited number of housing complexes as a PR counterpunch to Google Fiber. That service is initially being capped at 300 Mbps, and AT&T had yet to specify pricing.