Thread: AT&T Hits Brakes on UVERSE

Today AT&T Held and Investors relations webcast and make some big announcements which have seriously put on the breaks for much needed fixes and improvements for its AT&T UVERSE Service.

Things like being able to watch 2 HD streams in a house has been pushed back again, this time to the second quarter of 2008.

The whole home DVR which was supposed to be introduced soon has been pushed back to the 3rd quarter of 2008.

On screen caller ID has been pushed back to the 4th quarter of 2008.

For an interesting read on this we invite you to check out our friends at UVERSEUSERS.COM and check the following thread which gives you more details from todays call.


UverseUsers.com - (Disappointing) Notes from AT&T Investor Webcast

Boy, I sure wish I didn't live in an AT&T served area, this is turning into a big joke. Too bady good old boy Ed cashed out this month and will be leaving someone else to clean up this mess.

I have a former co-worker that went to go work for them, I had asked about the ability to watch more then 1 hd stream at one time, he thought I was crazy, aparently not. This was when he first was hired in so I still give him credibility.

Seems like they have to re-invent the wheel just to add caller id, the kicker is it's ma-bell itself. Go figure.

The neat thing I did hear about AT&T uverse as far as installation wise, they can use a phone jack, cat 5, rg-59/6, basically any kind of a wire to hook a tv up to.

Sounds like an increase in the odds of E* becoming part of Death Star.

Originally Posted by rcdallas

The neat thing I did hear about AT&T uverse as far as installation wise, they can use a phone jack, cat 5, rg-59/6, basically any kind of a wire to hook a tv up to.

Take that with a grain of no salt salt,

Originally Posted by rcdallas

The neat thing I did hear about AT&T uverse as far as installation wise, they can use a phone jack, cat 5, rg-59/6, basically any kind of a wire to hook a tv up to.

This is true. Although I guess its cheaper for them to run coax from the NID then wiring the house with Cat 5.

I had better quality (and less breakups with the picture) when I switched from COAX to Cat 5.

Just a minor suggestion, maybe add the word "improvements" to the end of the subject so it doesn't sound at first (to me anyway) like AT&T is halting the service (temporarily or otherwise)...

We really do need to clear up a few things...

1) The present SouthWestern Bell conglomerate is AT&T in name only

2) Things worked under the old order (AT&T)

3) Verizon's FiOS w/Ivan, Mark, et al in the lead will ultimately win out
(my FiOS internet ROCKS)
"Smarter IS better!"

Just my 2 cents.

--Doug

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

Today AT&T Held and Investors relations webcast and make some big announcements which have seriously put on the breaks for much needed fixes and improvements for its AT&T UVERSE Service.

Things like being able to watch 2 HD streams in a house has been pushed back again, this time to the second quarter of 2008.

The whole home DVR which was supposed to be introduced soon has been pushed back to the 3rd quarter of 2008.

On screen caller ID has been pushed back to the 4th quarter of 2008.

For an interesting read on this we invite you to check out our friends at UVERSEUSERS.COM and check the following thread which gives you more details from todays call.

UverseUsers.com - (Disappointing) Notes from AT&T Investor Webcast

So the message ATTs sending is.. we still expect people to sign up & pay "real money" for their "service"...& now the question remains is how many current users will cancel after their free trial period is over.....its getting to sound like a line in that Neil Young song...."you pay for this & they give you that"