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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Cynthia Brumfield picked up a story this morning on a field study AT&T did showing cable subscribers’ Internet speeds averaging well below the promised six to eight Mbps throughput. According to AT&T executive John Stankey, in a test of 150 residential homes, average cable Internet speeds ranged between 300 and 400 kbps. [...]
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Broadband Reports has a post up about AT&T’s new 10 Mbps service dropping on February 1st, and I have a nice little chart to go along with Karl Bode’s analysis of the throughput numbers. (See above) With VDSL2, AT&T can deliver roughly 50 Mbps with copper loop lengths of 1,000 feet, and roughly [...]
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You’ve got to have a thick skin to be in the broadband service business. If you’re a cable operator, the Wall Street guys are mad at you because subscriber growth has slowed, even if revenue is up. If you’re a telco, folks are either worried you’re spending too much on infrastructure or not [...]
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Wondering how fast IPTV is growing? According Rethink Research Associates, the number of IPTV homes will rise from roughly three million now to more than 50 million in the next five years. Now compare that statistic against the fact that Motorola has just shipped its two millionth IPTV set-top. (For more reference, [...]
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It hardly sounds like a lot when compared to cable TV numbers or even Verizon’s FiOS TV subscribers, but AT&T’s milestone of 100,000 U-verse customers is an important one. AT&T far outstrips any other all-IPTV rollouts in the United States. The general consensus is that one day everything will be IP-based, but most [...]
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The worldwide FTTx market totaled $2,562 million in 2006, according to Gartner. And even though the AsiaPac region accounted for 40% of that pie, North America is still among the top regions in the world spending money on fiber.
Of course when you think of fiber in the U.S. you think of Verizon, [...]
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There aren’t a whole lot of converged services offered yet, but operators can still take advantage of the multiple networks they control. AT&T, for example, announced yesterday that many of its home broadband subscribers can now access AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots for free. How’s that for fixed-mobile convergence?
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Last week I mentioned some of the features AT&T has publicly committed to roll out with U-Verse. Compare those features to the new Verizon FiOS interface (see above) and a few interactive services Time Warner Cable is promising, and it’s clear we’re moving into the world of widget TV.
Here are the new features Time [...]
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I check in occasionally on the U-Verse Users Forum, an unofficial site covering AT&T’s IPTV service. There are two interesting things I found today. First is a map showing where U-Verse service is available across the US. I’d show it here, but you have to register on the site to view it [...]
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