I talked with a U-Verse rep in Cleveland that said th eservice was up in some areas. I tried phone numbers of 10 people around Cleveland and all of them came up with "service not available". Right by my apartment AT&T already has all of thier new fiber switchboxes already up, and they've been up for nearly a year, yet still no U-Verse service.
I'm beginning to think the service is just vaporware to look good on paper while they sell th eincreased bandwidth to big companies for corporate internet.
The service looks promising. 200 channels you can pick with 3 free recievers and a DVR plus 2mb down 1 up DSL for $59 a month. Sure beats the base package of digital cable/internet for $115 a month. Digital Cable is a huge waste of money since you have to pay for hundreds of crappy channels you will never watch.
I just wish that the 50 Channel U-verse option was actually cost effective. Once you pay the box rental fees and other hidden charges it only ends up being $5 less than the 200 channel package. I really only watch 10-12 channels and wish I could just pay for those. Since U-Verse is a IP service where it only broadcasts the channel you are watching you should only pay for channels you actually watch.
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Iridium @ Dec 11th 2007 10:52AM
I talked with a U-Verse rep in Cleveland that said th eservice was up in some areas. I tried phone numbers of 10 people around Cleveland and all of them came up with "service not available". Right by my apartment AT&T already has all of thier new fiber switchboxes already up, and they've been up for nearly a year, yet still no U-Verse service.
I'm beginning to think the service is just vaporware to look good on paper while they sell th eincreased bandwidth to big companies for corporate internet.
The service looks promising. 200 channels you can pick with 3 free recievers and a DVR plus 2mb down 1 up DSL for $59 a month. Sure beats the base package of digital cable/internet for $115 a month. Digital Cable is a huge waste of money since you have to pay for hundreds of crappy channels you will never watch.
I just wish that the 50 Channel U-verse option was actually cost effective. Once you pay the box rental fees and other hidden charges it only ends up being $5 less than the 200 channel package. I really only watch 10-12 channels and wish I could just pay for those. Since U-Verse is a IP service where it only broadcasts the channel you are watching you should only pay for channels you actually watch.