| u-verse pentration is still very low This story is anecdotal, but I'll share anyway.
I've been looking to buy a new home here in the in-town Houston market (Boulevard Oaks/Southampton, West U, Montrose, Heights, Upper Kirby, etc) and I'm amazed at how many people *don't* have U-verse--and Houston is supposed to be a big U-verse market.
I've only looked at homes where U-verse is listed as available. Out of 24 homes that were occupied (visited about 30 total), 2 had U-verse, 1 had DISH Network and DSL, 2 had DirecTV and DSL, and 14 of them had Comcast TV/cable modem. |
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 NuckfutsPremium
join:2003-10-18
Joliet, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·DIRECTV
| Some people are just comfortable with their service or think they are getting a fair price. Like in other posts U-Verse is not for everyone. My only options before U-Verse were Comcast, which is horrible in my market, or Dish/DirecTV. I had Dish with AT&T DSL for years before the switch. I wanted to get rid of the Dish in my yard and wanted faster internet speeds which was only obtainable thru U-Verse. I cannot complain so far almost after 3 years. My neighbor next to me inquired about U-Verse over 2 years ago but is still using Dish because he has 2 DVR's even though I tried to explain to him he only needs one and can watch his recordings on any other STB. Some people just get comfortable with what they have and fear change. I cannot complain with my service, just wish they could up the compression on the HD. |
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 AMDUSERPremium
join:2003-05-28
Earth
kudos:1
 ·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to FattyAcid
Locally, lack of availability [in Milwaukee,WI] does not help much..
The other part is, that you have to rent a box for each tv, which brings the cost of the service up. [$7 / box per month]. With cable, [locally anyways] you only need a box for digital or HD / either with DVR. IMO, what AT&T should have done, is FTTP [like Verizon FiOS], and price the service competitively, and it would sell, [and get rid of the junk taxes / fees].
The interesting thing about it, is that AT&T only has about 675,000 landline customers left in Wisconsin as most people are either switching to cable VoIP / Vonage / or other VoIP /SIP providers or cell phone only. Locally, Time Warner Cable is getting people to switch to them. |
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
kudos:1
 ·Verizon Wireless..
·RoadRunner Cable
·AT&T U-Verse
 ·VOIPo
·PHONE POWER
| reply to FattyAcid
How long has U-verse been live in the surveyed neighborhood?
It takes a while for new TV services to gain footing. The sat customers are the hardest sales, because they're likely in contracts. Here, a lot of the new customers are people who recently moved. It also could mean Comcast in your area is doing a good job. Sometimes it takes outages or loss of channels to trigger people to make the switch.
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Your funeral. Delivered.
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 | If you want it, you might want to buy a house with it already.... Trust me on this 
Story of my freaking life |
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·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to FattyAcid
Yes U-verse is small but growing about as fast as AT&T wants it to.
The big dogs are cable (over 1/2 of the US TV market), and satellite (over 1/4 of the US TV market). About 1/8 have no paid TV service at all, and the rest (about 1 in 20) have either U-verse or FIOS TV. Both U-verse and FIOS are growing fast as the buildouts continue (but apparently FIOS is slowing down their deployments), but they are still a fraction of what cable and satellite serve.
In big cities, U-verse has a bigger fraction of the market (as does FIOS in those cities it serves).
see here: »mediabiz.com/thebridge/?release_id=175 -- the data's a few months old but you get the idea. |
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