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CT: DPUC Decision on AT$T Franchise

Posted on October 18, 2007 - 7:50am.

DPUC Decision, October 15, 2007, Docket No. 07-10-04

Excerpt

ORDERS

AT&T shall apply for a cable franchise pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. §16-331 et. seq. no later than December 31, 2007.

AT&T may continue to serve its existing video subscribers until such time as the Department rules upon an application for cable franchise submitted pursuant to Order No. 1.

AT&T shall cease and desist from marketing to or contracting with any additional customers for its cable programming operations in the State of Connecticut until such time as AT&T has obtained a duly authorized cable franchise pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. §16-331 et. seq.

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CT: AT$T threatens to take its ball and go home over Connecticut TV rules

Posted on October 18, 2007 - 7:43am.

from: Ars Technica

AT&T threatens to take its ball and go home over Connecticut TV rules

By Nate Anderson | Published: October 16, 2007 - 01:11PM CT

Despite the presence of a new Connecticut law setting up statewide video franchises for new entrants, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) yesterday rejected AT&T's bid for such a license. AT&T, which refuses to take out traditional video franchises with local communities (as cable companies have done across the country) is now threatening to pull its U-Verse out of Connecticut, fire 300 Connecticut workers, and redirect over $300 million of investment money to nearby states.

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CT: Regulators order AT$T to apply for cable TV license for 'U-verse'

Posted on October 15, 2007 - 9:56pm.

from: Stamford Advocate

Regulators order AT&T to apply for cable TV license for 'U-verse'

Associated Press
October 15, 2007

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- State utility regulators on Monday ordered AT&T to get a cable television license for the Internet protocol-based TV service it is currently providing in Connecticut.

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CT: AT$T, State In Web TV Tangle

Posted on October 15, 2007 - 7:23am.

from: Hartford Business

AT&T, State In Web TV Tangle Can company ignore a federal court ruling?

By Mary Johnson
Hartford Business Journal Staff Writer
10/15/07

Legal papers were flying faster than electrons last week as AT&T battled both the Connecticut Attorney General and the state Office of Consumer Counsel to keep expanding its U-verse video service.

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IL: AT$T ready to take on Comcast on TV

Posted on October 15, 2007 - 7:20am.

from: Chicago Business

AT&T ready to take on Comcast on TV

By John Pletz
Oct. 13, 2007

AT&T Inc. is laying the groundwork for an assault on Comcast Corp.'s local cable TV monopoly starting this spring, perhaps as soon as April.

Having cleared the legislative hurdles that stood in the way of offering TV here, AT&T is now sprucing up its network of roughly 65 local stores; hiring construction, engineering and call-center staffers, and building out the fiber-optic network needed to deliver its U-verse TV service.

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CT: Town at Odds with AT$T over U-Verse

Posted on October 12, 2007 - 8:15am.

From: New Haven Register

Town at Odds with AT&T over U-Verse
by Luther Turmelle
North Bureau Chief

WALLINGFORD - Democratic Councilman Michael
Brodlinsky told his colleagues on the Town Council
Tuesday night that he is concerned the town's three
local cable access channels [sic] are getting
short-changed by AT&T's new television service
offering.

Brodlinsky said AT&T's U-Verse television service -

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CT: Battle over AT$T's U-verse TV service rages on

Posted on October 12, 2007 - 8:07am.

from: Republican American

Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:24 PM EDT

Battle over AT&T's U-verse TV service rages on

BY DAVID KRECHEVSKY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

The legal battle over AT&T's U-verse television service continued this week on two fronts, with each side now looking to have competing rulings tossed out.

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TN: Cable TV drama ready for new season in state Legislature

Posted on October 11, 2007 - 7:21am.

from: Times Free Press

Cable TV drama ready for new season in state Legislature

By Dave Flessner and Jason Reynolds
Staff Writers

AT&T Corp. is hoping for a fresh start in the Tennessee Legislature next year when it mounts its second attempt to be able to add video services across Tennessee under a single franchise agreement, the company's new Tennessee president said Wednesday.

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TN: Dueling video

Posted on October 11, 2007 - 7:19am.

from: Times Free Press

Dueling video
Thursday, October 11, 2007

By Jason M. Reynolds and Dave Flessner
Staff Writers

Three companies soon may be fighting to plug their wires into Chattanooga homes to provide telephone, video and Internet services through lucrative "triple play" offers that bundle two or more communications packages.

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TN: AT$T to push for franchise rights again

Posted on October 11, 2007 - 7:16am.

from: Times Free Press

AT&T to push for franchise rights again
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

By Dave Flessner and Jason M. Reynolds
Staff Writers

Phone giant AT&T plans to mount a second legislative attempt in January to gain statewide franchising authority to add video services across Tennessee, an executive said today.

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