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story category AT&T Embraces Cable
Strikes marketing deals with cable giants
(old news - 12:02PM Thursday Aug 19 2004)
tags: cable · VoIP
AT&T, reeling from a telco/FCC regulatory defeat and their own broadband shizophrenia, has decided to make friends with the cable industry. The company has started recommending users sign up for cable broadband to fuel their CallVantage VoIP service (USAToday), to better market their service and strike back at the bells in the same breath. The marketing agreement was struck with Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Charter Communications, and Mediacom. It will be interesting to see if this agreement lasts as those Cable providers expand their own VoIP services.

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dg2
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join:2004-01-22
Lowell, AR

Time for a service change

AT&T in bed with Cox?

Time for me to find a new Long Distance carrier.
cableguy619

join:2003-06-24
Chula Vista, CA

Re: Time for a service change

all they are doing is pushing for people who want voip to use one of their cable providers, since voip runs over broadband...

really has no true relation as in sharing profits..its basically just liek vonage, without the marketing ploy

also if you read it says AT&T is dropping their log distance.......

shs100

@optonline.net

I cannot agree with you more. Years ago (1995-96), I told some of their executives that they should look toward cable since that provided the largest bandwidth and growth. It turned out to be their largest revenue producer - even larger than long lines. Armstrong (their CEO) sold it to COMCAST, left AT&T and then went to work for COMCAST.

What do they have now? Their wireless service was rated the worst by Consumers Union. They are being considered for a takeover. I think it's time me to bail out and get a new personal and business provider.
JimF

join:2003-06-15
Allentown, PA

Re: Time for a service change

said by shs100:
Years ago (1995-96), I told some of their executives that they should look toward cable since that provided the largest bandwidth and growth.

Exactly. But as I pointed out to one of my colleagues back then, they didn't know what the term "bandwidth" meant.

schweb
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join:2003-06-27
Lakewood, OH
AT&T doesn't own AT&T Wireless...it is a seperate comapny.

Count Hogula3
John Forged Kerry
Premium
join:2004-07-10
Corona, CA

Embraces cable

While they lobby for new cable taxes.

Voyager2K2

join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA

Well There Goes VoIP!

Doesn't just about anything "T" touches turn to poop lately?

deadmeat
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join:2003-03-21
Sonoma, CA

Re: Well There Goes VoIP!

said by Voyager2K2 See Profile:
Doesn't just about anything "T" touches turn to poop lately?

It happens when you start selling off your broadband and cell phone units. Is the board trying to get bought out or something? Or are they really that incompetent.
bigpapae35

join:2002-10-25
Great Neck, NY

Re: Well There Goes VoIP!

Who wants to start a pool to see when their Voice Over Ip service goes under??
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