Michael Sorkin, who writes the Savvy Consumer column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, points out in his story Naked DSL arrives -- but you'll get a better price next month that AT&T continues to do a sloppy, self-serving job offering the low-cost naked-DSL (no phone package required) broadband product that was required by the FCC as a condition of its competition-eliminating purchase/merger with BellSouth:

AT&T finally is offering "naked" Internet service to people without the company's landline phone service. Meanwhile, scores of angry customers say AT&T is still making it hard, if not impossible, to sign up for two nonadvertised money-saving services: $10 a month DSL and "uSelect3," one of the company's cheaper phone plans.