AT&T Launching New 24 Mbps U-Verse Tier > Certainly would be nice if I could get it.

Certainly would be nice if I could get it.

When they began putting in the VRADs in the Mobile area, where I live, it took several months before they had power service installed in some of them. The VRAD that services my neighborhood was installed last spring (2009), but they didn't power it for a while and start offering service until September. In their initial rollout, it seems that they got the fiber in place first, then placed some empty VRAD cabinets on the concrete pedestals quickly all over town, then came back and installed the power and equipment at a later phase. Maybe it won't be too long for you.

reply to Nightfall
Welcome to the year 2000. Honestly, it's best to just get cable and forget about AT&T and their garbage.

Even if you get served, it won't be long until you get some random line issue that knocks everything out that will take weeks to fix. Their excuse will be that the phone works, so you are low priority.

reply to insomniac84
My neighbors are dropping cable at an alarming rate to get U-verse. That says to me that something about Mediacom isn't keeping them happy. The reliability I have had with AT&T has been great. When I had Comcast at my old house, I had a lot more issues than I have had with AT&T, DSL and U-verse. There is only 1100 ft of copper wire between my house and the neighborhood VRAD, I don't see where too much will go wrong with it, at lease on a regualr basic. So far, there has been no issues with line quality in my neighborhood in 3 years. With U-verse and also DSL, my speeds have been a lot more consistent than I had with cable, and more reliable. Cable plant does fail also.

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that tells me U-Verse offered them intro deals which WILL GO up and the customers will be back to Cable for the new intro deals.
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reply to caseywor
the VARD on my block has power...the meter even spins on it...just no customers are being serviced yet.

Any plans to? NOPE! The street techs in my area even say, ATT hasn't said anything about what neighborhoods, they're busy trying to take out WOW in the city 3 streets over. While keeping in mind WOW used to be Ameritech's baby until Ed wanted out of the TV business.
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reply to hottboiinnc

this deal is an intro price. Many of the deals ATT pushes when going door to door are intro deals.

Cable maybe famous for the intro deal but at least during that you won't see your rate go up, like ATT has done countless times since being in the cable business again, even after they claim prices would go down.

ATT also only got the customers they did before the new year due to telling them that their cable TV service wouldn't work due to the digital change over. They'd get them worried they'd lose their services since cable wasn't doing anything about the change, and then found out in Feb. that CableTV is still around.

Come to Ohio and find out how many customers have left ATT to go back to Cable. Especially in the Toledo and Cleveland markets. Both cities HATE ATT and support the cable companies.
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reply to hottboiinnc
AT&T seems do be doing quite nicely with U-verse. They are pretty much growing as fast as they can install. They passed the 2 millionth customer recently according to the press release.

Like I said, they both suck in different ways, and people should find out what works for them.

I take with a grain of salt anyone who makes generic statements like "U-verse sucks! Anyone with a brain should just get cable!" or vice-versa.

2million isn't much when you compare their entire foot print with who will or will not get service.

Many of their customers only get the service due to being stuck with them or they signed a deal they have to keep them or they repay the $200 back they got on that "gift" card.

Also you believe everything ATT has to say in their press releases?

Sounds like it. But then again, you're a customer.
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One of my neighbors that just got U-verse installed was in the middle of an intro deal from Mediacom when they dropped it. Once again, I wonder why they would do that if it weren't for a significant problem. I haven't had a chance to talk to them directly about why they dropped Mediacom, I just know they did after about 3 months with Mediacom and after getting a one year deal from them. Otherwise, the intro deals that U-verse is offering isn't as drastic as what Mediacom is offering, but U-verse seems to be getting plenty of takers in my neighborhood.

reply to Nightfall
I had better experience before AT&T took over Bellsouth. As of late, my AT&T DSL has been acting up. DNS timeouts, low thruput, dropped connections, etc. Usually a power cycle of the modem resolves the problem. I never had these issues as frequently now as I did when it was just BellSouth.
Comcast is my other option and I'm seriously considering going with them. Unfortunately, they are a small subsidiary of Comcast.
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reply to caseywor
One further note: People leaving cable for U-verse could have to do with U-verse's superior picture quality to cable and their more robust HD channel lineup. I have witnessed the PQ from Mediacom and Comcast HD, and U-verse is better. Also, Mediacom and Comcast lag behind U-verse on channel selection. Also, not all channels being offered on Mediacom and Comcast's cable systems in this area are digital yet. Also with cable, you get the nice, bulky, slow responding receiver box. I have had both cable and U-verse, as well as DirecTV, and I have to say that U-verse is a winner for me at this time. There are things about it that could improve, but that sure as heck goes for cable.

reply to caseywor
I know people with U-Verse who would argue about how fantastic their picture quality is