AT&T just
announced that its U-verse services would be introduced in Birmingham, Alabama this week, and it's evidently making a similar rollout across Middle Tennessee. We've been
hearing that AT&T was
looking to infiltrate the Volunteer State for
months on end, and at long last we're finding out that those whispers were legit. According to a recent article in
The Tennessean, select parts of Nashville and Middle Tennessee will become the first areas in the state to receive U-verse TV and high-speed internet. The best part of all of this is that AT&T has successful acquired a statewide license to lay service, meaning that it could very well hit more areas in short order. In fact, the operator has already vowed to expand U-verse to "about 60 cities and numerous counties" over the next two years, with "Chattanooga, Memphis, Knoxville and some rural areas" named in particular.
[Thanks, anonymous]
posted Dec 21st 2008 3:14PM
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I'd consider switching from Comcast to AT&T if only they didn't seem to even worse in some ways such as testing even lower caps on broadband than Comcast, etc.
It would also be nice if one of them actually had a DVR with a large HD option, or at least would activate the USB ports for external self-supplied storage.
The U-Verse box has been in place at the end of my street for a few weeks now. I'd seriously consider switching to AT&T from Dish if they would offer a low price HD-only package that could compete with TurboHD. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like pricing for AT&T is much better than Comcast.
Is that picture a comparison between copper and fiber?
@Emmanuel
Yes, that's copper but I can't tell how many pair because I can't see all of the bundles. There's 25 pair in each bundle so it looks like it's at least a 300 pair cable, probably more.