AT&T to push U-verse services at Circuit City and Walmart

by Darren Murph, posted Oct 13th 2008 at 1:28PM

AT&T's not messing around with spreading the good word on its U-verse services, as it has just nailed down an agreement to sell the aforementioned products in two of America's largest retail outlets. Beginning this month, U-verse kiosks will emerge in over 600 Circuit City and Walmart locations, which will give unsuspecting consumers the chance to ditch their current cable / satellite / fiber provider and sign up for AT&T's own programming / high-speed internet / digital phone suite. The move comes in the midst of its nationwide Total Home DVR rollout, which enables any connected TV in the crib to watch a recorded SD or HD show. Of course, U-verse still serves a comparatively small amount of the country at present time, but with an initiative like this, we feel pretty good about future expansion.

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Tags: att, business, Circuit City, CircuitCity, fiber, industry, retail, u-verse, uverse, wal-mart, walmart

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GhostDoggy @ Oct 15th 2008 5:56AM

This seems appropriate considering that BB caters to ignorant cowsumers with no concept of being sold what is being marketed. Seems like a win-win for the Bosean climate of stupid.

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CrazyU-verse @ Oct 19th 2008 2:33AM

This is the most insane idea to date. Nothing against Wal-Mart or Circuit City, but when it comes to
issues all their employees will do is send them to the AT&T corporate store which will then take
them hours to correct the issues caused by poor training. AT&T needs to think, then re-think before
they choose a third party to sell for them. Plus, the AT&T employees are under a strict quota.
These quotas are set by corporate and must be met or people will lose their jobs.

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