This morning I saw some AT&T technicians installing fiber in a large sidewalk cabinet in my neighborhood, a centrally located historic district in Little Rock, Ark.
When I asked, they confirmed they were making U-Verse upgrades and added that the service is scheduled to launch locally on September 2, in competition with Comcast’s existing bundle.
AT&T wouldn’t confirm or deny that date. The company has had permission from the city to roll out U-Verse here for almost two years.
“I can’t wait,” the technician told me.
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Archive for May, 2008
U-Verse hits Little Rock in September?
by Ed GubbinsMay 5th, 2008
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Sprint’s new CFO gets a handful
by Kevin FitchardMay 2nd, 2008
Robert Burst took over as Sprint’s chief financial officer today, and I’m sure he’s had better first days on the job. If Standard & Poor’s cutting Sprint’s credit rating to junk status wasn’t enough, a federal appeals court sided with the FCC, requiring Sprint switch off its iDEN network in 800 MHz in all markets by June 26, regardless of whether the public safety agencies occupying its replacement spectrum are ready to leave. (more…)
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Broadband over powerline bruised again
by Ed GubbinsMay 2nd, 2008
In Dallas this week for the Broadband Properties Summit, I ran into someone who had signed up the broadband-over-powerline service that DirecTV had been trialing there in partnership with Current Communications. (That is, until that trial “collapsed” yesterday, according to the Dallas Morning News.)
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