[IP] Customers slow to tune into AT&T's and Verizon's TV over fiber

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: May 10, 2007 1:34:35 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Customers slow to tune into AT&T's and  
Verizon's TV over fiber

Customers slow to tune into AT&T's and Verizon's TV over fiber
Information Week
By. W. David Gardner

Both AT&T and Verizon have been utilizing fiber optic cabling to  
bring TV to customers' home and to compete with cable companies.

AT&T is getting some bad news on its U-verse TV system: Not only is  
it costing $1.4 billion more than anticipated to install, but the  
company's decision to use copper for the final leg into customers'  
homes is being called into question.

AT&T said it will spend as much as $6.5 billion to deploy the TV  
service by 2008, and the company also cut the number of homes the  
service will initially serve by 1 million, according to a report in  
Tuesday's Wall Street Journal.

<http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml? 
articleID=199400174>


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