AT&T expands TV service to 11 markets
Steve Safran December 26th, 2006
Several reports say AT&T will announce it is rolling out its TV offering, U-verse, in seven more markets. U-verse, AT&T’s answer to Verizon’s FiOS, had originally planned to be in 15 cities by January 1, 2007. But it is scaling back the next step a bit, according to MediaPost, to “ensure that all the kinks are worked out.” U-verse is currently available in parts of San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose and Houston. AT&T hasn’t yet announced what the next seven cities will be, but it is establishing some serious goals: the company is projecting having its service available in 19 million homes by the end of 2008. Verizon is shooting for FiOS availability in 18 million homes by 2010. While the big cable operators are downplaying the importance of the telcos moving into the TV biz, the long term threat to their businesses is real.
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1. Chip Mahaney | December 27th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
We were one of the first Verizon FIOS customers — in fact, our hometown was the second US wired for FIOS. It’s been a terrific experience - far more reliable and faster than Verizon’s DSL, faster and cheaper than the competing cable service (formerly AT&T, then Comcast, now Time Warner).
It will be interesting to see if AT&T takes on Verizon head to head here in our DFW market, and if a price war takes shape. The primary reason I left Comcast, even though I was a satisfied customer, is because they wouldn’t match Verizon’s lower prices when FIOS entered the market late in 2005.
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