AT&T Business Review 2023

If your workplace needs performance and speed, AT&T Business more than delivers—just be prepared to pay more than you might be comfortable with.

If you’re looking for small business internet on a budget, we recommend Business Fiber 100, but telecom giant AT&T has an internet, phone, and TV plan for almost every business, if not necessarily every budget. Even its lower-tier business plans are on the pricey side, and AT&T’s deluxe fiber-optic internet package could set you back as much as $500 a month.

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AT&T Business pros and cons

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AT&T Business offers a two-year price guarantee on select internet service plans.

AT&T Business plans and pricing

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AT&T Business uses several delivery models to get the job done. Its internet services are delivered through newer fiber-optic cables, and its phone services are a mix of DSL and fiber lines. Also, its television service comes from DIRECTV (just one of the 98 media and telecom brands that AT&T owns).

AT&T Business Internet

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If you’re in an area serviced by AT&T Business Fiber, we recommend the Business Fiber 100 plan. Its mid-level speed rate and price tag work well for a small- to medium-sized business on a budget.

We’d suggest larger businesses with fewer budget concerns go for the primo Business Fiber 1000—1 Gbps (1 gigabit per second, which is the same as 1,000 megabits per second, or Mbps) is fast, even for multi-user business use.

AT&T Business TV

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AT&T owns DIRECTV, and AT&T’s Business TV packages are provided by the satellite TV company and split into two categories: 1) business place on-site viewing (for offices and shops) and 2) public viewing (for restaurants and bars). Both package categories are based on DTV’s residential XTRA, ENTERTAINMENT, and SELECT plans. They all require a two-year contract.

If you’re operating a sports bar/restaurant, we’d recommend the Commercial XTRA PACK to get all the games on all of your screens: DIRECTV is a sports must. For any other type of business, though, there are less-expensive options to be found in cable or even streaming TV.

AT&T Business Phone

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AT&T Business Phone service is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), meaning the call travels over the internet rather than traditional phone lines. Yes, landline phone systems are complicated these days.

Fortunately, VoIP phone systems simplify things by making functionality fully digital. Call forwarding and waiting, voicemail, caller ID, speed dialing, and more office-phone necessities are all cloud-based (meaning no physical hardware cluttering the office).

A&T also has mobile Business Wireless plans available, of course, because it’s AT&T.

AT&T Business Bundles

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At $135 a month, the Internet 100 + AT&T Phone plan should cover the needs of most businesses well. It gives you 100 Mbps of internet download speed (a good and scalable baseline speed for businesses) and unlimited calling across the US, Canada, and Mexico.

We didn’t include TV because AT&T doesn’t, really: there’s no discount on DIRECTV services when bundled. The same standalone DIRECTV price applies whether combined with other services or not, kind of defeating the point of a bundle.

AT&T Business fees and charges

AT&T will set up your fiber internet connection for just $99. The catch is there’s no do-it-yourself option—AT&T has to install the fiber hookup.

As for early termination fees, AT&T Fiber requires no contract. We’d guess that AT&T expects you’ll be dazzled by fiber’s superior performance and it won’t need to lock you down.

AT&T Business contracts

In addition to having no contract, AT&T Business’s fiber internet plans come with a 24-month price guarantee. We like how AT&T is incentivizing a service that’s already hard to say no to (if you can get it, that is). Plus, the fiber plans come with 30-day money-back guarantees.

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Final take: Is AT&T Business worth it?

AT&T Business isn’t the cheapest service out there, but, with the exception of TV service, it has a viable answer for any business telecom need. Its fiber internet plans are especially impressive, if you’re in an area to take advantage of them.

For medium-to-large businesses with fatter piggy banks, AT&T Business is an easy choice. But smaller operations might struggle with even AT&T’s least-expensive plans, both in quality and cost.

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