U-Verse Hits 3 Former BellSouth Markets Birmingham, Columbia, Nashville... Tipped by Mr_A1 
It looks like Birmingham, Alabama won't be the only former BellSouth market getting an early Christmas present from AT&T. The baby bell this morning has announced they'll be expanding their U-Verse VDSL and IPTV service into Birmingham, Alabama, Columbia, South Carolina, and select portions of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. In Tennessee, AT&T is promising to deploy service within two years to 60 cities and a number of counties including Chattanooga, Memphis, Knoxville and some rural areas. Last week U-Verse was deployed into two other former BellSouth markets: Orlando, Florida and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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 | | Still Rockin My 3mb DSL service in this part of SC... | |
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| ATT , listen to your customers for once as a bellsouth ATT customer for years living in a rural area I am so sick and tired of seeing all these new services, dsl, uverse going to the densly populated ares and the rural communities getting nothing , how about instead of sending me all that junk snail mail offering me dsl and u verse when you know it will never happen and spend that money and upgrade the infrastructure in the rural areas so we can also enjoy " high speed bandwith "
signed 50 miles from Nashville and cant get anything except ISDN , no 3g , no dsl and certainly not u verse | |
|  | | | Re: ATT , listen to your customers for once This is a joke. AT&T announced this same service in Atlanta several months ago. I still do not know of a single person that has it, nor a single person that can get it in their neighborhood.
I have BellSouth fiber running down my street, and I cannot get better than 1.5x256 broadband from AT&T. BTW, I live in one of the largest population counties in the state.
So, it ain't y'all backwoods rednecks  that are not getting it. I'm still waiting on 3M service (no dreams or hopes or waiting for 6M, or U-verse), but I'll stop soon.
Hands down, the crappy cable operator is doing so much better job at delivering HD video, higher speed broadband, and digital voice--and I'm not even advocating them!
So, who is in a better position, you are me? | |
| | | | | Re: ATT , listen to your customers for once I beat you both, I'm 1.5down/256up IN CHICAGO in 2008!
I think the day I see higher speeds is the day the Cubs win, which may be NEVER! | |
| | | | | | Re: ATT , listen to your customers for once you can get higher speeds. Switch to Comcast or another cable company in Chicago. | |
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| said by GhostDoggy:This is a joke. AT&T announced this same service in Atlanta several months ago. I still do not know of a single person that has it, nor a single person that can get it in their neighborhood. I have BellSouth fiber running down my street, and I cannot get better than 1.5x256 broadband from AT&T. BTW, I live in one of the largest population counties in the state. So, it ain't y'all backwoods rednecks that are not getting it. I'm still waiting on 3M service (no dreams or hopes or waiting for 6M, or U-verse), but I'll stop soon. Hands down, the crappy cable operator is doing so much better job at delivering HD video, higher speed broadband, and digital voice--and I'm not even advocating them! So, who is in a better position, you are me? | |
| | | | | well its all a matter of perspective , depends on how you look at it , I would kill for 1.5 mbps down , 128 kbps up and down is pretty horrible even for the simplest web browsing nowadays | |
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kudos:1 | Re: ATT , listen to your customers for once said by bbwithdrawls:well its all a matter of perspective , depends on how you look at it , I would kill for 1.5 mbps down , 128 kbps up and down is pretty horrible even for the simplest web browsing nowadays Say thanks to the Tennesse PUC for madating universal, price capped, ISDN in the state. | |
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| |  AlpinePremium
join:2000-01-11
Atlanta, GA | I've got it, and I'm just west of you in Alpharetta. Several people in my neighborhood have it and there are VRADs all around, including my parents' place in Dunwoody.
Hang in there. It's still a crapshoot, but it's coming. I've been very happy with it for the most part. | |
| | |  Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
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kudos:18 | said by GhostDoggy:This is a joke. AT&T announced this same service in Atlanta several months ago. I still do not know of a single person that has it, nor a single person that can get it in their neighborhood. You are in Duluth, Right? You must be too far out. They have been bugging me for 2 months and I had to run them off my property. U-verse sucks and their Sales Team Lie. They told me it was fiber to my home (I told them it was VDSL and they said it's not DSL its Fiber!, LOL) and that they already made a special connection to my house. LOL
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|  MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by bbwithdrawls:signed 50 miles from Nashville and cant get anything except ISDN , no 3g , no dsl and certainly not u verse While that completely sucks, if you have NO options, including wireless 3G services, you are in the middle of absolutely nowhere and the population per square mile is so low you're just not profitable. 50 miles outside of almost any big city is a long way ... even 5 miles outside of a big city would be iffy for a lot of services.
Hopefully the government will have a plan to subsidize deployment to people like you before too long that isn't riddled with the USF deficiencies. | |
| |  BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by bbwithdrawls:as a bellsouth ATT customer for years living in a rural area I am so sick and tired of seeing all these new services, dsl, uverse going to the densly populated ares and the rural communities getting nothing , how about instead of sending me all that junk snail mail offering me dsl and u verse when you know it will never happen and spend that money and upgrade the infrastructure in the rural areas so we can also enjoy " high speed bandwith " signed 50 miles from Nashville and cant get anything except ISDN , no 3g , no dsl and certainly not u verse I live further from nashville than you but I get 10 Mbps from Charter and 6 Mbps form at&t. See you are not to far from Charlotte and Dickson you'll probably have to move there to get broadband. By the way verizon does offer 3G where you live. $60 for only a 5 GB monthly cap is not worth it to me though. | |
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Marietta, GA | Complete existing markets first Sure would be nice if AT&T/U-Verse would first complete deployment in the markets they've already started (specifically, metro Atlanta) before starting new markets. I believe U-Verse has been in "imminent deployment" mode for about three years in our area (Cobb County) and coverage is spotty at best. To add insult, the terms appear to be getting worse all the time (no more free additional boxes, for example) and from what I am reading, installation service is poor and getting worse. I had hoped U-Verse would be good competition for Comcast, not so sure anymore. | |
| Valien
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Greer, SC | Bah! Columbia, SC? Columbia SC over Upstate SC? Man, what a let down.  This is the tech corrider for SC. Not Columbia...
maybe one day...  | |
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| | | I am closer in.... Heck, I live only 15 minutes from Nashville, and can only get dialup. | |
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| | Only in SC. »www.thestate.com/breaking/story/628980.html
And someone thinks it's Fiber To The Home now. Seriously though, I'm wondering which parts of Columbia get this first, maybe some spots around downtown then out in the northeast around Clemson Rd. That'd be fun to see people complaining about the VRAD box in the yard. | |
|  joakoPremium
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| Lies Sure, maybe 3 AT&T employees can get the U-Verse service in the named areas, but 90% of the people in those areas won't be able to order for at least a year.
Here in Miami, FL they did the same "announcement" about their "roll-out" and I can see the VRad 2 blocks away powered on and all -- but still can not order U-Verse.
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|  heat84Bit Torrent Apologist
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Fort Lauderdale, FL
2 edits | New crews or moving existing ones? Are they hiring new crews to deploy in these new areas or are they moving existing crews from other areas after they finish doing 2 neighborhoods?  | |
| | | No big whoop More $50 a month TV full of commercials and garbage programming. I'll pass | |
| | | Uverse Well I live in Bham,AL(actually in the Hoover area) and no Uverse available yet...probably wont be for a while IMO | |
| | | upload still 1.5mb? Nice news but can they upgrade the upload speed sometime in the future? I doubt it. | |
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AT&T deploys U-Verse in Orlando, Eustis gets nothing.
If we don't here from you, whom do we contact? 
