at&t is the largest ISP

There is a reason at&t is the largest ISP - they bought everyone! at&t sells lots of kinds of access:

• dial-up
• DSL
• U-verse
• cellular (GSM/EDGE)
• fixed wireless (Navini stuff that BST was doing in Palatka, FL and GA)
• soon wi-fi (as they fight EarthLink over Chi-town), and
• satellite (through re-sale of Wild Blue).

Not much of that is the broadband network they promised us in 1998, when then-SBC asked for rate hikes for broadband. But, hey, BB is now defined by the FCC as 200K one-way. So it's all good. Unfortunately, except for the premium DSL & U-verse stuff, most of it is either inadequate or not-allowed for VoIP or video. And Andy points out that most of the new build is actually over-build in markets to grab the best customers.