said by pizmo pete :

The Company paid $6 Billion on the 700 mghz spectrum last year. 700 mghz can go 25 miles between towers,key is, due to it's low freq., it can penetrate concrete walls without interference. Now, add wireless cell repeaters to Vrads and give the customers a new wireless router. At&t's costs of deployment now,solved. No digging in gated communities to cut bridgetap in the buried, No more 6 hr installation nightmares. Condos and apartments now don't need rewiring. Why waste money on pair anything, or even fiber, when they plan to get it to you over the AIR. They cannot afford to wait and play later game, because it will be too late then.

said by Eric Bangeman (May 10, 2007) | Verizon, Comcast pump up the bandwidth. Where's AT&T? :

AT&T's strategy does resonate with price-conscious consumers. Many broadband subscribers are very happy to have 768Kbps down for $14.95 per month, or 1.5Mbps for a few bucks more. There will always be a large segment of the population that will be content with lower speeds and lower prices. But is that the market niche AT&T wants to find itself in, the deep-discount DSL provider?

Longer-term, AT&T's strategy appears to be more iffy, as applications that yearn for truly phat pipes continue to emerge. AT&T may be able to pump faster speeds over the twisted-pair wire between the node and the home in the years ahead, but not approaching the speeds that the competition can offer. Verizon and the cable companies look to be well-positioned for a bandwidth-intensive future. AT&T? Well, it can be the leader when it comes to low prices. Bandwidth is another story.

said by HKM :

Data also says most area served by AT&T's U-Verse tier is not fully competitive as its not in same market competing with DOCSIS 3.0/FiOS. The data also says that majority of the users were ADSL users who switched to U-Verse for bundling voice, tv, internet.

I would love to see AT&T deploy in a area that is already being served by Comcast's DOCSIS and FiOS and not in random cherry picking small town and see the result as I am sure other than AT&T's fanboy's granny less than 5gb/month usage for email, surfing most likely alot of folks will pick anything other than obselete U-Verse.

Where is AT&T again? maybe by 2012 they will deploy U-Verse to 30% of their users by then FiOS and DOCSIS will rip open sad attempt at broadband provider aka AT&T.

said by vinnie97 :

Oh, you mean the U-Verse box doesn't crash as frequently as it did 3 years ago?

said by HKM :

PS: Fiber is the future, copper is the past. I hope Verizon and Comcast rip AT&T open in HSI by end of this year. Remember what happened to AOL? They failed to adapt and look where they are now? LOL

said by fatmanskinny :

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Their DSL service cannot go above 6MB down / 512K up.

said by Authority :

My AT&T DSL is 6/768. What else are you wrong about?

said by fatmanskinny Hey guy. The info I stated may be incorrect for your area but not where I am.... all we get is 512k up. Have a nice day.

said by Authority :

I understand that's what you meant, but it's not what you said. If you're going to bash a company, at least be accurate.

You have a good day too.

said by fatmanskinny :

So you correctly understood what I meant yet posted "what else are you wrong about?" because of the words typed and not the meaning????

said by fiber_man :

AT&T is getting the fiber to within a mile of most homes first and then they can use that same fiber to distribute out the last mile to the homes.