Broadband in America from an insider.

we don't have cable here, shut it off years ago, so can't comment on that. Since the dawn of the internet age we consistently had the cheapest - slowest internet option that ATT offered, I believe it was DSL.
Last year ATT made us an offer, a 50% reduction in the internet price for a year, after that it goes to the lowest fiber optic price available locally if we allow them to run fiber optic from the box in our neighbors yard to our house and we then switch us over to high speed fiber optic internet. I had them put it in writing that ATT would cover all expenses for the change over outside and inside the house. Along with the new fiber optic that was buried in the yard they had to run a new wire in the house that ran all the way to the modem. That all happened last spring, no issues. Fiber optic was installed - buried in this neighborhood three years ago and guessing that we were the last ones on DSL in this area and they wanted to do away with that system.