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Note: AT&T is moving closer to the "Quadruple Play" by bundling wireless services with the usual cable/TV/phone triple play. Subscribers will have all their essential communications services locked into one provider's network and quite likely for extended contracts (that's very 'consumer' friendly). And as Big Brother to the government, AT&T will riffle through everyone's data communications at will to ensure subscribers are on the up and up. AT&T also just raised pricing 400% on SMS text messaging and 600% on Multimedia messaging - as one site points out, that's a data transfer charge of $1,000 per MB for SMS. Whose world?

from: The Mountain Press

County's legislators support change to help AT&T

By: DEREK HODGES Staff Writer
March 10, 2008

"I've gotten more correspondence from voters on this one issue than I have about anything else since I got elected," State Sen. Raymond Finney, R-Maryville, said. "I've been amazed at just how strongly people feel about this."

from: New Haven Register

Hartford Public Access May Be on U-verse After 18-Month Delay

March 8, 2008
By Luther Turmelle

Local public access television channels could make their debut on AT&T’s U-verse system by sometime next month, 16 months after the service was launched in the state, company officials said Friday.

from: Record Journal

Regular channels on AT&T sought for community access [extended report]
by George Moore
MyRecordJournal.com (CT)
03/07/08

HARTFORD - Public television officials and others argued before the state legislature Friday that AT&T should be required to offer community access and government television as regular channels in its new U-verse television service.

from: Mountain Times

Sevierville BOMA among opponents of AT&T proposal
By: DEREK HODGES Staff Writer March 10, 2008

That vote was conveyed to state lawmakers representing the area and was done immediately following a request from AT&T representative Dennis Wagner that the Board of Mayor and Aldermen support the move.

from: CTN

U-Verse:cable comparison of PEG

Over the past few months, AT&T has introduced its U-Verse to Connecticut. In the past week, the state legislature (in short session this year) has started to introduce amendments to the Certified Video Service Competition law from last year. On 3/8/08, the proposed bill had a hearing for almost 4 hours.

from: New Haven Register

Posted on Sat, Mar 8, 2008
Public access channels may be on U-verse by next month
By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief

HARTFORD — Local public access television channels could make their debut on AT&T’s U-verse system by sometime next month, 16 months after the service was launched in the state, company officials said Friday.

from: Record Journal

Regular channels on AT&T sought for community access
By: George Moore, Staff
03/07/2008

HARTFORD - Public television officials and others argued before the state legislature Friday that AT&T should be required to offer community access and government television as regular channels in its new U-verse television service.

from: My Record journal

Public access may be hard to access on U-verse
By: George Moore, staff 8:20 pm
03/05/2008

WALLINGFORD - The ability to find public access shows while channel surfing will play a central role in a struggle between public access advocates and AT&T's new television service, U-verse.

from: MultiChannel News

Tenn. Eyes New Franchising Bill
Proposal Would Give Authority 90 Days To Act On Application
By Linda Haugsted -- Multichannel News, 3/5/2008 8:34:00 AM

A state franchising proposal, which would create a new state commission composed of city and county officials, has passed the Tennessee House utilities, banking and small business committee.