AT&T in San Francisco
San Francisco is one of the great cities of North America. The city and the surrounding metropolitan area are home to some seven million people. The city itself is nestled into the steep hills along the California coast and is one of the most visited cities in the world, renowned both for its quirky architecture and the beauty of the natural environment it inhabits, as well as for its iconic street cars. The city emerged as a local financial hub with the famous gold rush of 1849, and has since grown into a major world financial center.
Many San Francisco residents look to AT&T for their telecommunications and media services. AT&T provides a full suite of media and communications services, including internet, television, fixed telephone and wireless services in most of the San Francisco Bay area, but television service is not available in all locations. All services are available in various grades, and are sold separately or in economical bundles. Many services are available with reduced introductory prices.
AT&T service offerings can be divided into three categories. DSL services include home phone and internet service, while wireless services offer mobile phone. The company also offers a branded fiber-optic service named U-Verse, which includes internet, television, and voice services.
U-Verse TV is packaged in several versions, ranging from 100 to 450 channels, with premium channels like HBO and Cinemax available for all packages, and a wide variety of pay-per-view options. The company also offers a special Latino service with U-Verse.
Standard features of U-verse include 80 channels of HD television and the company’s home digital video recording feature. Standard U-verse channels include all major networks, CNN, four ESPN channels, and many other favorites. The home digital video recording feature allows customers to record from up to four channels simultaneously. It also gives customers the ability to program recording from their mobile phone and replay them on any TV in the home. Premium packages include multiple HBO channels, Showtime, NBA TV, Cinemax and Starz, and packages come in four different grades.
AT&T home voice offers similar packages over DSL and U-Verse. Basic voice service includes free local calls. Premium services include a variety of options for economical long-distance calling, either in the US or internationally. Both U-Verse and DSL voice come with an array of standard features. These include call waiting, three-way calling, call forwarding and call blocking. Customers using AT&T U-Verse internet have access to additional features, including online call management. Wireless phone services are also available. The services come in a wide variety of plans with many different device options.
The company also offers internet through both DSL and U-Verse service. Both DSL and U-Verse services have a variety of available packages to suit individual customers’ budgets and internet needs. Download speeds for DSL service range from 0.768 Mbps to 6.0 Mbps, while download speeds for U-verse service range from 3 Mbps to 18 Mbps. All services include a variety of standard features. Up to 11 email accounts are included, as well as AT&T Wi-Fi Basic.
They offer a variety of service bundles for both DSL and U-Verse in the San Francisco Bay area. DSL bundles do not include television, and the differences between the packages are in the speed of internet service. All services come with unlimited local calling and flat-rate nationwide long distance.
U-Verse bundles come in several versions. Double bundles include both TV and internet, while triple bundles include TV, Internet and a choice of home or wireless telephone. Basic bundles have limited television channels, lower internet service speeds, and unlimited local phone. Premium bundles offer higher internet speeds, more TV channels, and unlimited voice service. HBO and other premium television channels are variously included with premium bundle services.
San Francisco is one of the iconic cities of America. With AT&T’s services, its residents have all the necessary tools for modern telecommunications and media.
