by Pivot
Tag: AT&T
Uverse Disappoints
News from AT&T is that many of the desired features promised for Uverse will be delayed. Features needed to effectively compete may be delayed until next year, including whole home DVR and caller ID on…
AT&T Expands Broadband Sales to Wireless Retail Stores
In a move to expand the scope of its retail footprint, AT&T will begin selling broadband solutions to small business customers at its wireless retail stores. This announcement follows a strategy to leverage their retail…
AT&T, Verizon: Google, Mind Your Own Business
AT&T and Verizon filed a comments with the FCC opposing Google’s wireless auction proposal which would follow a model similar to their Internet ad placement engine. Both AT&T and Verizon argued that if Google’s proposal…
Forget the iPhone, We’ve Got Something Better
Verizon Wireless apparently has something up their sleeve. Something they say that will compete quite well with Apple/AT&T’s pending iPhone. In fact Denny Strigl, COO of Verizon even went on to say that the iPhone…
AT&T Targets Small Business With New Bundle
AT&T just launched its new small business focused bundle, AT&T Complete Office Solution™. The new bundle offers a suite of services including business phone service (2 lines), DSL, and wireless service, with a starting bundle…
AT&T Keen On Differentiation For U-Verse
AT&T is focusing on a series of new applications for its U-Verse service to build competitive advantage over entrenched Cablecos. Some of these applications are already known (and in use), including the U-bar, an interactive…
AT&T and Earthlink in Competitive Battle for Windy City’s Airwaves
AT&T and Earthlink are battling it out for the right to build a citywide Wi-Fi network in Chicago. Following San Francisco, Philadelphia, and other cities lead, Chicago is studying the benefits of a municipal broadband…
AT&T Refocuses Business Portfolio – Integrates Cingular and Wireless VPN
In what is sure to be one of many announcements to come, AT&T announced a realignment of its business product portfolio to include wireless packages and a new wireless VPN service. Previously, business customers had…
I Like My DSL Naked, Thank You
What was once frowned upon and kept quiet, is now rising to the forefront. AT&T is actively marketing naked DSL, which allows a subscriber to get DSL service without an underlying voice line, in the…
I’ll Take U-verse To Go Please
Let the differentiation battles begin. AT&T announced “U-Verse On The Go,” a new service allowing U-verse subscribers to view select U-verse IPTV content on any broadband connected computer. A somewhat similar model to Sling Box,…
AT&T Promises Multiple HD Streams by the End of 2007
Recognizing the competitive reality, AT&T promises that it will be able to deliver multiple HD streams through its U-verse platform by the end of 2007. Of course, talk is cheap, and time will tell whether…
Verizon Wastes No Time in California
Verizon won a statewide franchise in California, saving them the tedious task of going from community to community to offer competitive video services. AT&T is reportedly not too far behind Verizon, and stands to gain…