I wanted to comment on getting internet without ATT involved. You need a dial tone or a dry line. You need ATT for a dial tone, and ATT quoted me $500 dollars to install a 'Dry Line' , $180 a month bill, and said it has at best, dial up speeds.

Well , you could try cable, if you have a cable provider who offers the service. But they are not cheap either, and from what Ive seen and heard, the quality is not great, and the outages are high. Face it, as the consumer, and the choices being very few, we are forced to choose between expensive and bad, and expensive and worse. Not much we can do about it, and they corporations know it.