GottaDEAL Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 <a href="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=37922269&siteid=40911438&bfpage=dsl" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.d2sales.com/assets/logos_pictures/sbc_yahoo_dsl_logo.gif" border="0"></a><br /><br />Great new offer from SBC that no longer requires you to sign up for an expensive calling plan to get the low rate. Prepay for one year and get SBC Yahoo DSL Standard package for just $19.99 per month. Also get free self-install kit, free modem and free activation. Good through 3/31 only. This is a stand alone offer - and not linked to All Distance or any other SBC package. The higher speed Pro service is also available for just $29.99 per month.<br /><br /><a href="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=37922269&siteid=40911438&bfpage=dsl" target="_blank">Get SBC Yahoo! DSL For $19.95 Per Month - Brand New Offer - SBC Internet</a><br /><br /><b>Discuss the deal in this thread.</b> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-bystander Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 I've read about this, but I need more info - is this just for new customers, or is it good for existing ones as well? I haven't called them yet to check, but I hope I can get around to it sometime today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMAN Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 This is an awesome deal considering AOL or MSN 56k dial up is around $21.95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 I believe it is for new DSL customers. If you have SBC for your phone service, you can get it. Up until now you had to also take their $50/month unlimited local calling plan, but they just dropped that restriction. Now as long as you order online (I don't think you can get it via phone) and pre-pay for a year, you get the $19.99 rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babylons5 Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 I was able to get on this deal even though I'm a current subscriber (was paying $26.xx/mo). My contract was about to expire in 2 mos anyway so they let me have the deal since I threaten to cancel my contract when the contract expire. The key is to ask for the cancellation department and they'll hook you up. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMAN Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 The key is to ask for the cancellation department and they'll hook you up. Good luck.Congratulations $19.95/mo for 1 year for broadband internet is HOT HOT HOT! You are absolutely correct the key is to speak with the retention (cancellation) department as they have the authority to give major discounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveh Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Just signed up for this package this morning (about an hour before you posted the deal)... DSL pro package, two lines with all the bells and whistles on the first one, unlimited nationwide long distance on both lines... before taxes, ~$85 a month... This is a great deal -- I'm paying ~$55 a month now for a comparable DSL connection for BellSouth now... (I'm moving from Florida to Kansas, so the new service - and the new pricing - is very welcome!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma31913 Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I was able to get on this deal even though I'm a current subscriber (was paying $26.xx/mo).Thanks, babylon5, for the above information. It worked!!!! My contract was about to expire in one month, and was received both a letter and email from the SBC Yahoo DSL that I'd be given an opportunity to renew a new 1-year contract at the same current rate of 26.95/month. Before reading your post, I knew about the $ 19.95 deal for new subscribers, and tried to get on the same deal via their customer service representative, but was told it was only for new subscribers. I suggested that they be kind to their loyal customers like me (I've had their DSL over 3 years) and offer the same $19.95 deal. The respresentative (she) sympathized with me but said there was nothing she could do for me expect offering me the deals that were placed with my account (i.e. $26.95 same rate offer for another year or $19.95 with a long distance services package). So I thought I would renew my contract for another year at the current 26.95, as they offered me. BUT THEN I READ YOUR POST! I called the SBC Yahoo again and spoke with the cancellation department this time. They (she) right away gave me a new contract at $19.95 stand-stand alone, effectively this month (rather than awaiting the expiration of my current contract in April--they'll prorate differences in the service fees.) Thank you again, babylon5, for sharing your success story. Thank you, the administrator rossMAN, for the GottaDeal forum. I gotta deal!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMAN Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 BUT THEN I READ YOUR POST! I called the SBC Yahoo again and spoke with the cancellation department this time. They (she) right away gave me a new contract at $19.95 stand-stand alone, effectively this month (rather than awaiting the expiration of my current contract in April--they'll prorate differences in the service fees.) Thank you again, babylon5, for sharing your success story. Thank you, the administrator rossMAN, for the GottaDeal forum. I gotta deal!!! First of all welcome to the GottaDeal forums, we love it when people come out of lurking and begin posting It sounds like the key was to threaten to cancel, get transferred to their retention department who has the authority to offer $19.95/mo to existing customers. Please make yourself at home and again welcome to the GottaDeal family Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 It sounds like the key was to threaten to cancel, get transferred to their retention department who has the authority to offer $19.95/mo to existing customers.RossThat seems to work for a lot of things. You would be surprised at the stuff a CC company will offer you when you go to close an account too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-bystander Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I haven't been able to get in on this deal. My contract expired last month and they came out with this after I renewed... I can't even play the cancellation card because they can stick me with the termination fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma31913 Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 This is a followup story to the $19.95 deal that I got with Yahoo. My new DSL monthly payment is not $19.95 but $21.42! They are adding a new obsecure charge called "FUSF Pass-Through Fee" for $1.47 every month. How sneaky! Does anyone know what it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMAN Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 This is a followup story to the $19.95 deal that I got with Yahoo. My new DSL monthly payment is not $19.95 but $21.42! They are adding a new obsecure charge called "FUSF Pass-Through Fee" for $1.47 every month. How sneaky! Does anyone know what it is?Sorry I don't know as Yahoo! DSL isn't available for our area Have you called Yahoo! DSL customer service and asked them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia39 Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 This is a followup story to the $19.95 deal that I got with Yahoo. My new DSL monthly payment is not $19.95 but $21.42! They are adding a new obsecure charge called "FUSF Pass-Through Fee" for $1.47 every month. How sneaky! Does anyone know what it is?one of the zillions of taxes they add on each month. our phone bill + DSL bill each month is about 46 dollars. phone service is 10.60, DSL is 26.95. there's 8 something in phone taxes, and the rest are SBC DSL taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma31913 Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Yeah, I found out what the FUSF charge is. This is what they say on their DSL ad site in very tiny letters:"You will also be charged a monthly FUSF (Federal Universal Service Fund) cost recovery fee to help cover charges from our data transport supplier pursuant to state and federal telecom regulations. This fee is not a tax or government required charge." Strange, they never charged it before when I was paying $26.95/month. I read in the newspaper SF Chronicle sometime ago that phone and cable companies can add new charges without government regulations to make up for some "extra" cost that happen to them. So they put it on their customers to pay for whatever they feel they need to make up for. Certainly $19.95/month looks and sounds better than $21.42/month to consumers. My monthly DSL payment has gone down a little; so I'm not really complaining about the FUSF charge. I just don't like the way they advertise the $19.95 deal so openly and then add the extra charge in an undertone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMAN Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 ma31913, The local telco's numerous fees, taxes and surcharges (which totals an astonishing ~$12) is my primary reason for dumping our landline. So I signed up with SunRocket VOIP for $199/yr which averages around $16.58 per month including all those weird fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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