
AT&T has a made significant strides with U-verse this year, and now the operator says it expects to reach the one-million subscriber mark as early as next week. Remarkably, Verizon hit the sameĀ milestone with FiOS TV earlier this year.
Other 2008 U-verse notable moments:

[...] for both U-verse and FiOS is astounding when you consider that both operators only hit the one-million subscriber mark last year. At the same time, US telco TV numbers are still fairly small in comparison to cable subscriber [...]
[...] officially hit the two million mark for U-verse customers, almost exactly one year after it hit the one million mark in December of 2008. At the end of Q3, the company said it was also on track to bring in two [...]