UVERSE Stops Rolling Out

[Scott Greczkowski]

AT&T: The U-Verse Build is Over

Like FiOS, If You Didn't Get it Already, You Probably Won't


In May of last year AT&T confirmed that at the end of 2011 they'd effectively be stopping their deployment of U-Verse upgrades, with 30 million homes passed (not necessarily served), leaving about 40-45% of their footprint on older, slower technologies. On their recent earnings call AT&T again confirmed that the U-Verse build is "largely complete," and the focus now is on ramping up adoption in deployed areas. As we recently noted, Verizon has also frozen any additional FiOS expansion outside of large city franchise agreements, leaving roughly 40% of their customers without upgrades.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, who last year insisted that DSL was "obsolete" (a problem since that's all AT&T offers) also touched on the plight of the rural user during the recent call. In short, AT&T claims that despite consistent, healthly profits and recently having started charging data overages, they just can't find a financially appealing way to upgrade millions of users, and won't anytime soon:

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[juan]

monkey see monkey doo..stay tuned for wi-fios and wi-uverse (LTE versions of both services) ........................

[isaacmorseMI]

monkey see monkey doo..stay tuned for wi-fios and wi-uverse (LTE versions of both services) ........................

LTE can't match a fiber service yet, especially if they want to keep the great PQ, speed, and ping. But I could see AT&T doing an LTE based U-Verse since that uses much less bandwidth than FiOS does.

[dan188]

id love to have fiber internet speeds of 50mbs but at leas I get 15 mbs. at least cable is still upgrading areas to faster speeds

[Teehar]

I really don't like AT&T!

[navychop]

There's got to be more coming on these stories. They must see some technology and other changes coming. I still think Fios will start up again after the economy improves. Glad I got it. Maybe it will boost my homes value.

[cypherstream]

LTE can't match a fiber service yet, especially if they want to keep the great PQ, speed, and ping. But I could see AT&T doing an LTE based U-Verse since that uses much less bandwidth than FiOS does.

What if they use like a switched digital video multicast. If 10 people on your tower are all watching ESPN, join the same stream rather than sending out 10 copies of ESPN at 10 times the bandwidth...

[juan]

LTE can't match a fiber service yet, especially if they want to keep the great PQ, speed, and ping. But I could see AT&T doing an LTE based U-Verse since that uses much less bandwidth than FiOS does.

thats not what Lowell McAdams believes..LTE will be for rural ares

[juan]

There's got to be more coming on these stories. They must see some technology and other changes coming. I still think Fios will start up again after the economy improves. Glad I got it. Maybe it will boost my homes value.

nope..They laid off the installers

[StevenD]

LTE can't match a fiber service yet, especially if they want to keep the great PQ, speed, and ping. But I could see AT&T doing an LTE based U-Verse since that uses much less bandwidth than FiOS does.

I disagree. I didn't take a screenshot at the time, but I once got 47Mb down and 28Mb down.