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CT: Phone TV Conflict Blurry

Posted on October 22, 2007 - 7:47am.

from: The Courant


Phone TV Conflict Blurry
Officials Try To Defend Choice By Denying it

By MARK PETERS

Courant Staff Writer

October 21, 2007

TV viewers might find it difficult to choose a side in the fight over cable competition in Connecticut.

Should they choose the side of government officials who say they are representing consumers by encouraging TV-service competition as long as everyone in the state can benefit?

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CT: AT$T Ruling Could Hinder National U-Verse

Posted on October 22, 2007 - 7:44am.

from: Hartford Business

AT&T Ruling Could Hinder National U-Verse
Company heads to court to thwart disastrous DPUC ruling

By Mary Johnson

Hartford Business Journal Staff Writer

10/22/07

Cabling for AT&T's U-verse Internet video service.

For AT&T, the future isn’t just in phones. The company is making a massive bet that it will be the dominant player in providing consumers video service over the Internet.

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AT$T U-Verse suffers nationwide outage

Posted on October 21, 2007 - 6:52pm.

AT&T suffered a nationwide outage on their U-Verse service Sunday October 21st. The post below is from an AT&T users site. This is what happens when traditionally local cable systems become centralized nationally and are run off Microsoft software - little software glitches can bring the entire service down across the country. In this case the outage appears to have been a poorly timed system upgrade. If the U-Verse service were broadcast, AT&T would be liable for millions in FCC fines, but as it is, they will just get more favorable rulings from FCC Chairman Martin and another 'get out of jail' free from the NSA and the Whitehouse.

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CT: AT$T Aims Its PR Guns at Connecticut

Posted on October 19, 2007 - 6:48pm.

from: Broadband Reports

AT&T Aims Its PR Guns at Connecticut
October 19, 2007

A federal judge says AT&T’s U-Verse IPTV service is a cable service. AT&T says it’s not, and therefore isn’t subject to the same consumer protection and build-out rules as cable operators.

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CT: AT$T says ‘no’ to Conn. cable franchise

Posted on October 19, 2007 - 7:25am.

from: Telephony Online

AT&T says ‘no’ to Conn. cable franchise
By Carol Wilson
Oct 18, 2007 10:05 AM

AT&T is fully prepared to cut off service to more than 7000 U-verse customers in Connecticut and stop all video service in that state rather than file for a statewide cable license. The company, known for tough stands on the franchise issue, is taking its toughest stand to date, staring down consumer groups and a state attorney general determined to make AT&T accept tougher terms for the right to offer video service.

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CT: CWA Joins AT$T To Fight Connecticut Cable Decision

Posted on October 18, 2007 - 9:41pm.

"Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?" A good old labor song, the CWA would do well to learn it.

from: CNN

Union Joins AT&T To Fight Connecticut Cable Decision

October 18, 2007: 12:11 PM EST

HARTFORD (AP)--An AT&T union joined the telecommunications giant this week to fight a state order that AT&T Inc. (T) needs a cable television license for its Internet-based TV service in Connecticut.

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AT$T Plans To Buy Echostar

Posted on October 18, 2007 - 9:26pm.

Note: This merger would make sense since AT&T relies on Echostar to complete its "triple play" for most consumers in outlying suburban and rural areas. With U-Verse, AT&T only pulls fiber to the home in wealthier new residential communities, the rest get fiber to the node in their neighborhoods and more limited bandwidth capacities. Those outside of AT&T fiber backbones get the hybrid HomeZone, old DSL, telephony and a dish for TV services.

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CA: Time Warner customers misled by AT$T ad

Posted on October 18, 2007 - 8:18am.

from: LA Times

Time Warner customers misled by AT&T ad
October 17 2007

David Lazarus:
Consumer Confidential

An ad from AT&T that ran the other day in these pages and elsewhere warned that some Time Warner Cable customers are in danger of losing phone service as the cable giant makes some technical changes.

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CT: Blumenthal: AT$T wasting its time on litigation

Posted on October 18, 2007 - 7:53am.

from: Legal Newsline

Blumenthal: AT&T wasting its time on litigation

by John O'Brien

HARTFORD, Conn. - Despite a recent federal court ruling, AT&T still refuses to apply for a cable license in Connecticut and state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal refuses to let the company get away with it.

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CT: AT$T suit challenges Blumenthal

Posted on October 18, 2007 - 7:52am.

from: Connecticut Post

AT&T suit challenges Blumenthal
10/16/2007 11:59:43 PM EDT

HARTFORD — Attorney General Richard Blumenthal blasted AT&T's Tuesday court filing challenging the latest order by Connecticut regulators that would force the telecom giant to get a cable franchise license for its U-Verse TV service.

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