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1 edit |  AT&T has big plans for U-Verse
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AT&T Inc. on Tuesday raised its dividend 12.7 percent, announced a share buyback and set a long-term target for its TV service, which is delivered over phone lines, saying it will be available to 30 million customers by 2010.
AT&T expects to spend between $4.5 billion and $5 billion on U-verse through 2008.
Stephenson told analysts the new target includes customers in the Southeastern states formerly served by BellSouth Corp., which AT&T acquired late last year.
AT&T shares rose $2.10, or 5.5 percent, to $40 in morning trading Tuesday. 30 million homes passed by 2010. They have a long way to go to reach that. It will be hard for them to reach that number. They only have 126,000 U-verse customers right now.
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bamabrad
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Port Orange, FL | 'available to 30 million'
but how many will BUY? What incentive will there be for me to change?-Any opinions out there from the ones who now have this service? |
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Rob
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Re: AT&T has big plans for U-Verse
said by TKJunkMail  :» ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i1iU···8TFA50G0AT&T Inc. on Tuesday raised its dividend 12.7 percent, announced a share buyback and set a long-term target for its TV service, which is delivered over phone lines, saying it will be available to 30 million customers by 2010.
AT&T expects to spend between $4.5 billion and $5 billion on U-verse through 2008.
Stephenson told analysts the new target includes customers in the Southeastern states formerly served by BellSouth Corp., which AT&T acquired late last year.
AT&T shares rose $2.10, or 5.5 percent, to $40 in morning trading Tuesday. 30 million homes passed by 2010. They have a long way to go to reach that. It will be hard for them to reach that number. They only have 126,000 U-verse customers right now. 126k LMAO. What a joke. 30 million by 2010? That's funny. |
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Forest, OH | reply to TKJunkMail
Maybe not. I work some in Toledo, and live outside of Findlay, OH. Both are AT&T cities, and both have new vrads being installed. I believe there is a lot of areas that are seeing this kind of work being done. |
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i agree. they are shooting for the moon (stock market overlords) with those unreachable numbers. |
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meskinct
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clubs: | 200 Families?
That's it? A measly 200 families? And that counts as a product launch? |
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Cod
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| said by meskinct :That's it? A measly 200 families? And that counts as a product launch? Did you read the article? It said nothing of a product launch...
...U-Verse will be seen in Atlanta this year, but the initial footprint will be rather small as the company aims to test the system on BellSouth's network. |
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1 edit | What a joke
Forget all of your current customers that got you were you are today. Run over and work on Bell South territory now too. Again, many areas still can't get DSL. Oh well. Oh and by the way, I'm not going to really care for U-Verse. Our new cable company is upgrading our cable system and I will be able to get 10mbps/1mbps for $59.95 a month, that will piss all over U-Verse's 6mbps/1mbps. Plus they have about 300 channels.
As stated before, the way AT&T is handling U-Verse, it's nothing more than a cable system, in fact, it's even less than that in terms of broadband. A cable system that is "upgraded" is fiber to the pole and coax during the drop to the home. U-Verse is fiber to the node then copper the rest of the way.
They need to re-think this if they want to compete in the future, especially with cable systems starting to experiment with DOCSIS 3.0.
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| Coming to Jackson, MS too
Our local paper had a story that the U-Verse agreement was just signed by our mayor.
See this story... »www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.···CAROUSEL
I'm thrilled by this news, mainly because Comcast is the only video provider for me. I live in a heavily pine tree populated area. I could try to shoot through the trees for Dish or DirecTV, but would probably lose LOS with moderate winds.
My comcast bill is 125$ a month for Digital Cable and Internet. It appears that with U-Verse I could have the U400 package with all of the premiums and the elite internet tier for 129$. It's a no brainer.
We have had nothing, but issues with Comcast since they took over Time Warner in our area. I had signal issues in my old home that they attributed the cause was too many apartments in the area. |
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Re: AT&T has big plans for U-Verse
There is a big difference between "homes passed" and actual customers. If 1% of the 30 million homes passed actually subscribed, that would yield 300,000 paying customers.
Who wants this service, anyway? I don't see any advantage over DSL on the broadband side. Is it better than cable or satellite for TV service? Also, they had better be prepared to offer everything in HDTV, as that is the way everyone is going.
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Rob
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| said by timcuth :There is a big difference between "homes passed" and actual customers. If 1% of the 30 million homes passed actually subscribed, that would yield 300,000 paying customers. Who wants this service, anyway? I don't see any advantage over DSL on the broadband side. Is it better than cable or satellite for TV service? Also, they had better be prepared to offer everything in HDTV, as that is the way everyone is going. Tim What gets me is, in 2010, it'll be time to upgrade the network to all fiber. It's a never ending story with them. |
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Re: 200 Families?
"This is a controlled launch of a few hundred homes," AT&T spokesman Wes Warnock said.
Maybe instead of the BS PR spin he should have said, "This is just a test. We have no idea when we will offer it to the general public."
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NightHawke
join:2002-02-28
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| St. Louis, watch out!
They are going to have loads of fun there. That's Old City, with old, unmapped pipes, ancient sidewalks that were overlaid with newer ones, bedrock that'll break the teeth on their horizontal drills. They'll have better luck with the newer 'burbs on out. |
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cornelius785
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Re: AT&T has big plans for U-Verse
i don't see how u-verse is all that bad. i know it is FTTN not FTTH, but it allows for some of the present infrastructure to be used, and i wouldn't be surprised if it is faster to wire a town/city up than FTTH, but that is just speculation. i'm also guessing the time from when the order was placed to when the connection is live is faster, they probably could even do without sending a technician to install, since it is just VDSL from node to house.
isn't MDUs hold up verizon (no conspiracy theories please) to some extent? FTTN can bypass that issue for the most part, they can also wait for verizon to figure out a good method of getting fiber to MDU that also has been tested, in-field, extensively. when ATT is finally ready to convert from FTTN to FTTH all they need to do is run fiber for the last few thousand feet, which could be a long time from now. according to wikipedia, it looks like major cities are getting wired up first, something verizon is avoiding (atleast has been) ignoring for a while. |
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rradina
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Re: St. Louis, watch out!
St. Louis city is very old but only about 325,000 people live there now -- down from its pinnacle of ~900,000 in the 1950s. Most of the population left for the newer infrastructure of St. Louis county. The city seceded from the county in the 1800s and became it's own city/county. Over a million people inhabit the 100+ municipalities of the county. ~300,000 people live in St. Charles county and almost as many in Jefferson County. There's also a million people in three counties on the east side of the Miss. river in Illinois.
Since the city of St. Louis only comprises about 10% of the metropolitan population, AT&T would be smart to work on the 'burbs first unless the city provides some special tax incentives. It's doubtful that they can afford such a program. They already have a 1% income tax on anyone that works in the city. That's right, it doesn't matter if you don't live there or you don't get to vote there. You get to pay for working there. |
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Re: What a joke
said by dslwanter :Forget all of your current customers that got you were you are today. Run over and work on Bell South now too.
Its one company now...They can be working on former BellSouth as well as doing upgrades in other parts of the country, all simultaneously.
said by dslwanter :Our new cable company is upgrading our cable system and I will be able to get 10mbps/1mbps for $59.95 a month, that will piss all over U-Verse's 6mbps/1mbps. To each their own. Many people outside of BBReports.com like spending half of your $60 10/1 for something that suites their needs.
said by dslwanter :A cable system that is "upgraded" is fiber to the pole and coax during the drop to the home. U-Verse is fiber to the node then copper the rest of the way.
LOL. Do you seriously think that in front of every house the coax somehow mysteriously taps into the fiber every couple hundred feet in the air? You need some serious education on optical & electrical transport methods and how they interact. Pick up a manual on cable & telco plant architecture while you are at it.
said by dslwanter :They need to re-think this if they want to compete in the future, especially with cable systems starting to experiment with DOCSIS 3.0. Uverse using the VDSL standard is providing, right now, 70-100mps into peoples homes, albeit not an open pipe. AT&T can hypothetically 'flip the switch' if it wants to offer faster downloads in the future.
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bogey780
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Re: AT&T has big plans for U-Verse
it was 126k in the end of the last quarter. It is quite higher than that right now if the projections hold. |
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bogey780
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yea...they're only a couple hundred thousand behind Verizon at only a fraction of the cost. What are they thinking?! |
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bogey780
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Re: What a joke
'As stated before, the way AT&T is handling U-Verse, it's nothing more than a cable system'
Uhhhh... no. Not in the least. It's no more a "cable system" than ISDN is a microwave relay. |
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Rob
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Re: AT&T has big plans for U-Verse
said by bogey780 :yea...they're only a couple hundred thousand behind Verizon at only a fraction of the cost. What are they thinking?! Come on bogey....
Verizon services 1.3 Million FiOS customers, and 700,000+ FiOSTV customers. |
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