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by martino on June 13, 2007
Flush from success, the AT&T U-Verse sales juggernaut is riding high and ready to take on Ohio. Officials at station group Sinclair said this week they have a deal allowing AT&T to offer their...
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by martino on June 01, 2007
The last time we stopped to smell the AT&T subscribers, we saw that the company had passed up the Tibet's cable company with a blistering 20,000 subscribers in 18 markets. In an investor...
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by martino on June 01, 2007
Verizon is previewing a new interactive media guide for its FiOS television service. The company took over the viewer interface from Microsoft along with other IPTV modules. Based upon some of the...
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by martino on May 29, 2007
Verizon Communications is raising the price of HD digital-video-recorder service on FiOS TV to $15.99 per month from $12.99 for new orders made on or after July 13, a company spokesman said. A...
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by martino on May 17, 2007
and rapidly gaining on Mongolia Last weeks article in the WSJ said it all: "... U-verse comes as AT&T is finally gaining a little traction in its efforts to launch the long-delayed service....
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by martino on May 13, 2007
Verizon Communications said its video business accelerated in the first quarter with a net 141,000 new customers for FiOS TV, bringing the telco to a total of 348,000 subscribers at the end of the...
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by martino on April 25, 2007
Home & Garden Television HD, food network HD and Lifetime Movie Network HD joined Verizon Communications' FiOS TV lineup. The telco said its total number of HD channels is now at least 27 in...
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by martino on April 18, 2007
The nation's largest telephone company will offer new video customers one year of free HD programming. In a promotion scheduled to run for a few months, AT&T said it will provide more than 25...
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by martino on April 17, 2007
Verizon Communications said it will offer HD broadcasts of Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball and Bruins National Hockey League games, and other programming carried by New England Sports Network, to...
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by martino on March 09, 2007
California granted its first state-wide video franchise to Verizon. I first wrote about this last October. The company said it will announce later this month the communities where it will begin...
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by martino on February 13, 2007
from MultiChannel News: AT&T and Music Choice announced a distribution agreement last week to deliver dozens of Music Choice audio channels as part of the telco's U-verse TV channel lineup....
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by martino on February 03, 2007
Here is a data point from the triple play wars. Comcast released its latest financial report to Wall Street. "I think simply it may have been our best year ever," said Brian Roberts,...
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by martino on January 31, 2007
AT&T's U-verse now has an agreement with A&E. This is a multiyear distribution agreement to deliver AETN linear, HD and on- demand programming. AT&T customers will now get: A&E...
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by martino on January 26, 2007
AT&T Inc.'s rollout of its new U-verse IPTV television service is being delayed by glitches in the Microsoft Corp. technology. At least that is what was written in the Wall Street Journal. My...
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by martino on January 12, 2007
AT&T's IPTV service called U-verse will now carry the New England Sports Network. Too bad that is predominantly Verizon territory. But what the heck, I say that you should air anything you...
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by martino on January 01, 2007
Federal regulators approved AT&T's $85.8 billion acquisition of BellSouth. This is the largest telecommunications merger in history. Since you can read about the merger in every publication,...
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by martino on December 29, 2006
Competition is a good thing for consumers. Right after AT&T announced plans to roll out its television service called U-Verse in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, Comcast announces that it will...
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by martino on December 27, 2006
Motorola's got its credit card out and it is not afraid to use it! Back in January, Motorola bought Kreatel Communications, an IP set-top box and middleware vendor. Last month Motorola bought...
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by martino on December 26, 2006
AT&T said it would roll out its IPTV service by the end of the year in 15 markets and technically it squeaked in to my area with 6 days to spare. U-Verse is now available in limited areas of......
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