AT&T Promises Broadband, IP For Some Low-Income Households, Rural Communities

AT&T is promising IP video access for 5.5 million low-income homes in its 13-state local service area within the next three years and satellite access for some rural communities starting as early as next month. So what if it’s an effort to massage reputation and show what a good citizen the growing colossus can be as it waits for federal regulations on video franchising and approval to acquire Bell South?
The telecom is teaming up with WildBlue to market satellite-based internet access in packages starting at $49.95 a month. It also will expand its WiMax and fixed-wireless efforts. The low-income households in 41 markets will be equipped for IP video. Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre announced the plans during a keynote Monday at the Detroit Economic Club. (Press release.)
WSJ: An AT&T spokesman said the low-income service was “an attempt to show those critics they’re incorrect in assumptions they’ve made.”

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