Comments on: AT&T May Drop Dish, But Still Has U-verse

By: Justin Haygood

Justin Haygood — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:12:27 +0000

AT&T recently started offering AT&T Dish Network service in Atlanta (via bellsouth.com).

By: Pat Hurley

Pat Hurley — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:46:51 +0000

I feel your pain Stacey — as someone who left (sorta, I never turned it off, but thought about it) Time Warner to go to U-Verse and then went back again. And yeah, Time Warner has been busily increasing our download speeds and adding HD channels (not as many as U-Verse or DIRECTV, but getting there) since AT&T rode into town with the U-Verse offer.

Now if only TWC can keep pushing ATT to offer more SIMULTANEOUS HD channels, and ATT can keep pushing TWC to offer more TOTAL HD channels, we’ll see some competitive benefits from the duopoly :)

By: Carmen

Carmen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:11:30 +0000

AT & T is supremely bootleg. I want Verizon. Too bad I live in Atlanta!!

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:06:52 +0000

Pat, I would take FiOS (I think) over U-verse any day. But I would try U-verse over Time Warner right away. I mostly want the option, but AT&T won’t give it to me (even though they are in other parts of Austin). And until they do I don’t even get the option of faster Time Warner Service because they’re busy offering those infrastructure upgrades in area where AT&T is providing U-Verse. It’s a duopoly downer, believe me.

By: George

George — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:14:12 +0000

ATT U-Verse recently started a heavy rotation ad campaign featuring Billy Dee WIlliams. Don’t know if its LA only or nationwide.

By: Eideard

Eideard — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:57:01 +0000

In my neck of the prairie, AT&T is still partnered with DirecTV, offering DSL as the broadband [sic] part of the package. Which means, on my road, 1.25mbps.

By: Pat Hurley

Pat Hurley — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:29:06 +0000

I think your perspective on this Stacey is 100% out of sync with mine because you’re (as it mentions in this post (http://gigaom.com/2008/02/19/waiting-for-u-verse-in-austin/) still waiting for uVerse , while for me I’ve already been there (and left).

While I am a bit surprised that AT&T chose this moment to move on from the DISH partnership (if in fact that have moved on…), but from where I sit in a uVerse territory (for at least a year here in San Diego), it’s obvious that AT&T has moved on to uVerse.

I’m talking from a consumer, not analyst, perspective here… they saturate the airwaves with commercials for “advanced TV”, they have an army of contractors going door-to-door selling the service, etc.

Now if only they had made the technology choice Verizon made, they wouldn’t have people like me (and several neighbors) dropping them because they can’t support two HD streams to the whole house (though I hear they’ve got that problem licked — but two’s STILL not enough for anyone with a DVR and more than one HDTV)…

By: Clinton Schindewolf

Clinton Schindewolf — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:29:36 +0000

Just hope that the fiber line to your building doesn’t get cut or you’ll wait 4 weeks for them to fix it because they are arguing with the condo builder over the 20k cost to fix said line. They can’t be spliced like cable lines. We finally got Insight.