Do I need to sign a 2 yr contract with U-Verse

[REVM1M]

I have Directv , but thinking of switching to at&t U-verse. Do I need a two year contact or is it like a cable, that I could disconnect when I want to?

[budda]

I Googled your question and as far as my research is. No There is no 2 years commitment. If they have a price lock or some special offer yes , but to sign up and use the service, no. Also there is a 30 day money back , unsatisfied offer. I would get u verse, cancel direct, wait about a week, direct, will call with a get you back offer , do the final decision at that time. It is a little of screwing around but you will get the best deal. Good luck

[REVM1M]

I Googled your question and as far as my research is. No There is no 2 years commitment. If they have a price lock or some special offer yes , but to sign up and use the service, no. Also there is a 30 day money back , unsatisfied offer. I would get u verse, cancel direct, wait about a week, direct, will call with a get you back offer , do the final decision at that time. It is a little of screwing around but you will get the best deal. Good luck

Thanks for the advise, I may try that.

[PONIES]

I think you would be making a big mistake.

Time Warner Cable Extreme (30/5) + their digital HDTV package works out to $10 less per month than AT&T's 24/3 Mbps and U200 package (after 6 months). Also, AT&T has bandwidth caps now which effectively makes their Internet service worthless. It is the biggest rip-off I have ever seen hit the Internet.

AT&T U-verse's picture quality is atrocious. Refer to the following screenshot comparisons:

Rick Steves' Europe on HDNet:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/62993
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/62994
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/62995

iCarly on Nickelodeon:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/62999
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63000
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63001
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63002

News segment on MSNBC:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63003
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63004
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63005

Soccer game on ESPN:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/62997

Additional Information:

These are the exact two airings of each show recorded at the same time on each provider. FiOS screenshots from source transport stream, AT&T screenshots from lossless HDMI capture.

Now some people have said that U-verse has worse picture quality than YouTube. They're not lying about that either. Here's a bonus YouTube round!

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63008
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63009
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/63010

This comparison is AT&T U-verse vs. the FiOS source uploaded to YouTube and then screenshots taken from YouTube's 1080p re-encode.