So, is AT&T Uverse EVER getting rolled out nationally??

[TechHead87]

I was recently in Tuscaloosa. They have Uverse (and love it), but we dont have it here in Huntsville.

Is Uverse or Fios EVER coming to the rest of the U.S??

 

[squirrel dog]

The guy who runs att now was a comptroller.Att won't go anywhere with out a market study.To dslam an area costs about 300,000 without labor.So they roll out uverse based on the areas ability to actually buy the product,at 60~100+ per month with higher rates downstream.Depressed intercity areas may never see it .

 

[sourceninja]

I like my uverse internet a lot. TV however is a different story. It's blocky, some channels are so compressed it's almost unbearable (syfi) and for some reason while regular TV does not lag on my upstairs TV, playing anything recorded lags something awful.

 

[mugs]

It's not like they can just flip a switch and turn on U-Verse in an area. They have to run fiber to the crossboxes and test all of the copper to ensure that it can handle the high data speeds that are required for U-Verse.

FiOS is even worse, they have to run fiber to every single house.

Both are huge efforts costing billions of dollars. They're doing it as fast as they reasonably can.

 

[Modelworks]

They want another $200 billion to do it, the first 200 billion wasn't enough.
Read up on the corrupt telecoms , the entire USA was supposed to have fiber this year.
http://www.teletruth.org/docs/broadbandscandalfree.pdf

 

[mugs]

They want another $200 billion to do it, the first 200 billion wasn't enough.
Read up on the corrupt telecoms , the entire USA was supposed to have fiber this year.
http://www.teletruth.org/docs/broadbandscandalfree.pdf

Thank you for posting that. People have been claiming that the phone companies were paid $200 billion in the 90s in exchange for building a fiber optic network that they never built. I had been meaning to look into that; apparently people have been spreading lies. According to that book what actually happened is that phone companies made more money through deregulation.

 

[robphelan]

nationally, HA! san antonio was on of the first markets and I still can't get it. i am a few miles outside the city limits, but still!