I just got a flyer from AT&T in the mail. It seems that they now support gigabit speeds to my house. I'm
currently using 12Mbit U-Verse DSL, so this would be a significant speedup.
The pricing plans they're offering me are:
$110/mo: gigabit network, free equipment / installation, 1 year commitment / price lockin
add $30/mo for unlimited voice calling, U.S. and Canada
subtract $30/mo to drop to 300Mbit/sec...
Those prices above are for AT&T's "Premier Offer" which includes the AT&T privacy violation engine. It appears the alternative is to
spend an extra $29/mo to get the "Standard Offer". You don't get the one-year lock-in, but you pay a $99 "installation fee" and a $7/mo "equipment fee". (More details at
Ars Technica, among others.)
Clearly, they're pushing you to the privacy violation engine. The question is whether I really care with
most of the world going to HTTPS and, I suppose, with the ability for me to just build a tunnel to my office and hide all of my traffic.