(Hartford,CT.-AP, June 22, 2006 3:52 PM) _ AT&T says it's nearly ready to roll out its new technology to provide television programming over phone lines.
The company announced today that it's spending $336 million to launch the service. Officials say it'll be ready for the first Connecticut subscribers by the end of the year.
The service provides television programming, movies on demand, sports scores, stock quotes and other information.
It shows up on a regular TV screen . The difference is that it's sent through phone lines, rather than through cables, as current cable TV providers offer.
AT&T says that gives the company the chance to offer more variety, and an alternative to being locked in to cable company rate increases.
Several cable companies and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have asked the state's Department of Public Utility Control to prevent the service for now.
They say AT&T should have to get a cable franchise. But DPUC commissioners ruled earlier this month that the company is exempt from that requirement, because the technology is so different than regular cable TV.
There's no word yet on how much the service will cost subscribers and what will be included in the packages.
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The company announced today that it's spending $336 million to launch the service. Officials say it'll be ready for the first Connecticut subscribers by the end of the year.
The service provides television programming, movies on demand, sports scores, stock quotes and other information.
It shows up on a regular TV screen . The difference is that it's sent through phone lines, rather than through cables, as current cable TV providers offer.
AT&T says that gives the company the chance to offer more variety, and an alternative to being locked in to cable company rate increases.
Several cable companies and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have asked the state's Department of Public Utility Control to prevent the service for now.
They say AT&T should have to get a cable franchise. But DPUC commissioners ruled earlier this month that the company is exempt from that requirement, because the technology is so different than regular cable TV.
There's no word yet on how much the service will cost subscribers and what will be included in the packages.
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5066758