Image courtesy of user txskeets on the U-talk forum
Tracy Swedlow (of itvt fame) has details this week on new features for the AT&T U-verse service. The upgrades are happening now, and limited feedback on various U-verse forums is already rolling in. Subscriber comments are mostly positive, with the exception of one complaint about an audio [...]
New AT&T U-Verse Features
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Mari Silbey
Recession? People are Still Paying for TV
Posted on January 28, 2009 by Mari Silbey
While the two largest cable companies in the US won’t report numbers until February, the two largest telcos have stated their quarterly earnings, and the news for pay TV is decidedly positive. Verizon added 303,000 FiOS TV customers last quarter, and AT&T came in only a bit behind with 264,000 new U-verse subscribers. That’s more [...]
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Motorola U-verse Remote – Now Shipping?
Posted on January 15, 2009 by Mari Silbey
When Motorola announced the new remote control with “find” feature before CES, there was no official word that it was for AT&T’s U-verse service. However, in demos at CES, the AT&T branding was everywhere. Now I hear that the remotes may in fact already be shipping to U-verse subscribers. I’m keeping an eye out on [...]
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One Million U-verse Subscribers and Counting
Posted on December 9, 2008 by Mari Silbey
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 same milestone with FiOS TV earlier this year.
Other 2008 U-verse notable moments:
Doubled the number of HD streams to the home
Topped 1,000 titles in [...]
Motorola Set-Tops for the New U-verse Whole-Home DVR Service
Posted on August 29, 2008 by Mari Silbey
It’s official. U-verse subscribers are reporting that AT&T has started to roll out its whole-home DVR service. Since Motorola is involved, I thought this would be a good time to walk through the hardware and AT&T’s approach to in-home DVR networking.
Motorola supplies two set-top models to AT&T for U-verse, the VIP1200, an HD IP box, [...]
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Speed Wars
Posted on July 29, 2008 by Mari Silbey
In a post yesterday, Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM equated broadband to electricity and public education. Everyone should have access. That’s true, and we certainly have a lot of work to do in some rural areas, but there is good news. Access speeds are increasing in the US, and by a significant margin.
I remember [...]
Filed under: AT&T, Bandwidth, Cable, Comcast, DOCSIS 3.0, Internet, Verizon | 3 Comments »
VOD Plans for the Olympics
Posted on July 16, 2008 by Mari Silbey
AT&T made a big splash back in March when it announced an exclusive deal for VOD content of USA gymnasts and other American athletes preparing for the Olympic Games. Now it appears that Verizon will have its own Olympic VOD content, if not quite the headlining programs available on U-verse. A friend and FiOS TV [...]
IPTV Subscribers Pass 15 Million, But How is IPTV Defined?
Posted on July 15, 2008 by Mari Silbey
According to the Broadband Forum, there are now 15.5 million IPTV subscribers worldwide, with 2.2 million out of that total coming from North America. Where in North America, I wonder? Or more to the point, what is the Broadband Forum defining as IPTV?
AT&T stated it had 378,000 U-verse subscribers as of the first quarter of [...]
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AT&T Broadband Updates
Posted on June 14, 2008 by Mari Silbey
According to AT&T reports at a recent investor conference, 90% of current U-verse subscribers bundle Internet with their IPTV service. Will that continue if and when AT&T starts metered Internet service? It all depends on the competition. In fact, it will be interesting to see how the vaunted triple play is affected overall if metered [...]
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AT&T Doubles its U-verse HD Streams to the Home
Posted on May 6, 2008 by Mari Silbey
Apparently sightings started last week, but I just picked up on the news that AT&T is now rolling out a second HD stream to U-verse homes. Sounds like a good precursor to AT&T’s whole-home DVR service (on Motorola set-tops) promised for this year, yes?
From the U-verse Users forum:
It appears that St. Louis will be [...]
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