| reply to I love Comcast
Re: Good bye AT&T 1. It was a merger condition, not a choice on at&t part to try and win subs, check your facts!
2. That cable modem has gotta suck at 5-9pm, when all the neighborhood kiddies get online with their xbox's and ps2 & ps3 's.
3. Copper dosent rust, it tarnishes/corodes AGAIN check your facts!
4.U-verse is not a pathetic answer. It might look week now, but its new, it needs to be tweeked to STOMP on cable. |
| It looks like Fiber-to-the-home next year the new evoloution is born. Someone mention after Comcast upgraded to DOCSIS 3.0 AT&T would look in another direction I give that person credit big time. They're looking in a different directions to reclaim market domination.
June 15, 2007 5:34 PM ETAT&T ready to deploy new broadband technologyadvertisement
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All bizjournals.com NewsAT&T Inc. awarded contracts to Alcatel-Lucent Inc. and LM Ericsson Telephone Co. for a planned deployment of broadband technology in "new build" areas of AT&T affiliates' local service territories. Financial terms of the awards were not disclosed.
The technology, known as Gigabit Passive Optical Network (G-PON), is the newest standard for fiber-to-the-home technology with capacity to deliver speeds greater than the current generation technology, according to AT&T.
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The deployment is part of AT&T's U-verse network strategy of bringing digital television and broadband Internet service along with local and long distance voice services to the residential market in one package.
Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), based in France, and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), based in Stockholm, Sweden, will provide the equipment for the deployment of the G-PON technology. Pending successful resolution of testing and certification, the general deployment of G-PON is expected to begin in 2008.
San Antonio-based AT&T (NYSE: T) is a global communications holding company. |
