You gotta love the AT&T side of the story.
I am definitely not a fan of bandwidth for the sake of bandwidth, but 1.5 megabit down and 128k up is not sufficient for basic service. I smell someone covering their collective recti over taking the governments money for real broadband, then not providing it.
640k ought to be enough for anybody… Oops 1.5 megabit should be enough for anybody