Bell South Broadband

Bell South broadband service is called FastAccess, and uses DSL technology. The service is offered both to homes and for business customers.

Bell South is the nation's third largest DSL provider with over 1.7 million customers.

It serves mainly southeastern U.S. regions with telephone service, both with fixed lines and with wireless service (via their joint venture with SBC, Cingular).

With their DSL service, you don't need an additional telephone line to surf the Net. Also, the prices offered by the company to take up the DSL service are very low, oftentimes at dial-up levels.

The FastAccess broadband service delivers download speeds of up to 3Mbps downstream and up to 384Kbps upstream.

Available South Bell Broadband Packages

The available packages from South Bell are differentiated mainly by how fast the service speed is.

The South Bell broadband packages for residential customers are (pricing may vary in different regions):

• FastAccess DSL Xtreme
• base price: $54.95
• FastAccess DSL Ultra
• base price: $42.95
• FastAccess DSL Lite
• base price: $34.95

You can save on these services if you bundle the high speed Internet service with other services available from South Bell.

For businesses, the available packages are:

• FastAccess Business DSL Lite
• Up to 256Kbps (downstream)/ 128Kbps (upstream)(best effort)
• $49.95/mo.
• FastAccess Business
• Up to 1.5Mbps (downstream)/256Kbps (upstream)(best effort)
• $79.95/mo.
• FastAccess Business Static IP
• Up to 1.5Mbps (downstream)/256Kbps(upstream) (best effort)
• $89.95/mo.
• FastAccess Business DSL Plus
• Up to 3.0Mbps (downstream)/384Kbps(upstream) (best effort)
• $89.95/mo.
• FastAccess Business 384
• 384Kbps (downstream)/ 384Kbps(upstream)
• $199.95/mo.
• FastAccess Business 768
• 768Kbps (downstream)/ 512Kbps(upstream)
• $219.95/mo.
• Wireless FastAccess