Barely a month after AT&T admitted that
a million less households would have access to U-Verse by the end of 2008, the outfit is now aiming to have that very amount of subscribers before 2009 dawns. Reportedly, AT&T group president of telecom operations John Stankey made that proclamation during a recent presentation to Wall Street analysts, and it was noted that while U-Verse only has 126,000 latched on right now, around 10,000 installs are being requested each week. Oh, and if you were wondering how this tied into those
potentially ludicrous AT&T /
EchoStar DISH Network partnership whispers, the provider purportedly reiterated its goal to "dramatically grow" its own service to compete with alternatives.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pitta @ Dec 12th 2007 2:05AM
Damn... I really hope me area is amoung the new areas they plan to expand to so I can be part of that 1 Mill... That, and MS needs to deploy IPTV to the 360 Pronto! I'd be all set!
GhostDoggy @ Dec 12th 2007 5:30AM
I can tell you that my AT&T FTTC home will have no chance of getting U-verse by the end of 2009. The entire neighborhood is on fiber, but during the subdivision's initial construction the company tore out the installed copper and replaced it with fiber.
You want speed? Don't move into my subdivision. The fastest thing you can get by AT&T is 1.5x256 and no U-verse. The technology is Marconi, which got bought by someone (AFC?), which in turn got bought by someone else. Nice to have 250,000 homes on single-mode fiber in the Southeast and only make available c.2000 broadband services and c.1995 cable television.
Compete? Comcast bought Adelphia that fed this home. They offer 4, 6, and I think 8 Mbps service, VOD, VoIP, and a paltry offering of HD in cable, but they at least OFFER something along the lines of 21st century services.
Don @ Dec 12th 2007 10:30AM
I'm pretty sure AT&T's broadband division is managed by two aardvarks and a rhesus monkey.
andy @ Dec 12th 2007 1:00PM
I have a fool-proof way to expand; offer it to me.