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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 thei...
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by martino on June 1, 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 prese...
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by martino on June 1, 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 pic...
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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 signif...
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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 qua...
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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 9, 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 offer...
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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 3, 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, chairma...
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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 N...
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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 can...
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by martino on January 1, 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, I...
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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 Net...
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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 Silic...
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by martino on December 26, 2006
When I write about the Telco's emerging business in IPTV, it is difficult not to bump into the topic of cable-franchising. Click here to see a list.
In that same vein we have the city of Milwauke...
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by martino on December 19, 2006
Question: how large will AT&T's potential universe be for its IPTV service called U-Verse.
Answer: Rollouts will begin in ernest in 2007. It plans to make U-Verse available to 19 million hous...
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by martino on December 19, 2006
I am still looking forward to testing out AT&T's U-Verse when it rolls out here in the San Francisco bay area. Disappointed, but still interested. It is better to get the product right before ...
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by martino on December 14, 2006
Presently, Verizon spends an average of $1,816 to connect a home with fiber. They are promising Wall street that they will cut that cost to $1,350 by 2010.
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by martino on December 13, 2006
We just celebrated day of the ninja, so it's a big week for ninjas everywhere- especially our favorite ninja from the hit internet series "Ask A Ninja". Find out how this show has insp...
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by martino on December 10, 2006
a lover's triangle rarely works out well
Ah, congratulate the newlyweds. Alcatel and Lucent are now blissfully married. Their union is symbolized by the eternity ring of their new combined logo -...
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by martino on December 8, 2006
I have had the opportunity to see the latest versions of Microsoft's IPTV software. Overall, I was very favorably impressed. When I sign up for AT&T's U-Verse service, I hope that some of ...
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by martino on December 7, 2006
Watch out Hoosiers, Verizon filed an application for a video franchise covering the Fort Wayne and New Haven market. And we're talking FiOS TV folks.
By the end of 2007, Verizon also plans to mak...
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by martino on December 7, 2006
I recall last week when a high-level Microsoft executive said to me that they were pleased with Microsoft IPTV adaption in North America and Europe, but their company needed to find more partners in A...
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by martino on December 7, 2006
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin could revise the video Franchising process. This is the process whereby each local authority extorts determines the terms of whether someone can offer television in the commu...
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by martino on December 7, 2006
Verizon FIOS TV viewers in southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware will now be able to see live Philadelphia 76ers National Basketball Association and Philadelphia Flyers National Hockey League...
