AT&T U-Verse in More California MarketsPortions of Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto ( old news - 12:17PM Monday Aug 20 2007) tags: dsl · business · TVIP · AT&T U-VerseAT&T today announced that they've launched their U-Verse VDSL & IPTV service in portions of Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto, California. According to a leaked launch schedule we've obtained, St. Louis should be the next market to launch on November 5th. More geographical specifics on the California market launches: AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced the launch of AT&T U-verseSM in parts of local communities, including the city of Sacramento, Sacramento County, Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Folsom, Gold River, Lincoln, Modesto, Rancho Cordova, Rocklin and Stockton. Additional detail on DVR rentals, their channel lineup and AT&T's qualification tool are available at the U-Verse website. As always, your questions about the service can be answered by the helpful folks in our U-Verse forum. Also, take a look at our U-Verse users availability map. The pricing again, in case you've been napping: Broadband speeds: •Elite: 6Mbps/1Mbps•Pro: 3Mbps/1Mbps•Express: 1.5Mbps/1Mbps Channel lineups:•U-Family: 50 channels, $44•U100: 100 channels, $44•U200: 190 channels, $59•U300: 240 channels, 34 premium channels, $79•U400: 300 channels, 49 premium channels, $99 Bundles (Express/Pro/Elite per month): •U-family: $59/$64/$74•U100: $59/$64/$74•U200: $74/$79/$89•U300: $94/$99/$109•U400: $114/$119/$129
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
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Tulsa, OK
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| I laugh at your 6Mbps... I'll pass on circa 2000 speeds.....pass the PowerBoost.
If 6Mbps is Elite.....what they hell is 15Mbps.....Godly?
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Omega
Displaced Ohioan
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Santa Maria, CA
clubs:  | Re: I laugh at your 6mb... I agree. I currently have 3mbit DSL. If u-verse offered 10mbit , I would think about upgrading....but 6mbit...wow.
btw, 6mbit is not circa 2000 speeds. | |
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | Re: I laugh at your 6mb... You are right, some of us had it in 1998. | |
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AMDUSER
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Earth
clubs: | I also agree. I have 7 Meg cable ($35 month).. however, a call to TWC could upgrade it to 15 Meg for about $50 /month or so. | |
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East Lansing, MI
 ·AT&T Midwest
| I think some of you have been drinking the cable Koolaid. I have nothing against tons of download speed but how often and for how long at a time do you max your 6+Mbps connection? Again, not that I have anything against more speed but I think 6M is plenty fast for most people most of the time. Plus, the upload speed is probably faster than what you have now--unless you have FIOS. And this is for $30/month. | |
| StEaLtHBuNnY
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Bergenfield, NJ | Guide I dislike the guide very much. Needs like a fios 2.0 facelift. | |
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anon2007
@sbcglobal.net
| Re: Guide said by StEaLtHBuNnY  :I dislike the guide very much. Needs like a fios 2.0 facelift. Do you want a FIOS like guide or internet your choice  | |
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evilghost
Premium
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Springville, AL | Explosive Pricing I heard you get a discount if your cabinet explodes... | |
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Raptor
Not a Dumptruck
join:2001-10-21
Ajax, ON | Re: Explosive Pricing Only if the shrapnel exceeds a 5m blast radius.
First month free if bodily harm occurs*
*Bodily harm must occur to that of the account holder. Other restrictions may apply. | |
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join:2002-02-08
Brooklyn, NY
| Re: oH hum said by CPM :when i was in NYC I had ool great speeds and price.. But this shit. give me a f in break. SLOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.. in Miami. Amen brother. When I was living in Brooklyn I had optonline with a 15mbps/2mbps pipe. It was blazing fast with good pings. Now I am living just outside Fort Lauderdale and have Comcrap 6 mbps/384 kbps. Talking about slow. Yeesh. | |
| jammmin
join:2000-12-14
Upper Marlboro, MD | joke 50 channels for $44. Pathetic.
Doesn't FIOS TV offer 200 channels for $42.99 | |
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rcdailey
Dragoonfly
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join:2005-03-29
Rialto, CA
| Re: joke said by jammmin :50 channels for $44. Pathetic. Doesn't FIOS TV offer 200 channels for $42.99 So what? You can't get FIOS if you are in AT&T territory. FIOS is not really competition to U-Verse. The competition to U-Verse is from whatever cable provider is in the territory. Time Warner's All-the-Bsst would beat the combination of AT&T phone service with U-Verse, in terms of channels, internet speed (standard RR is at least equal to U-Verse Elite), and local phone with long distance. | |
| tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | do competition a favor, if your even considering subscribing Do competition a favor and NOT subscribe until the deals get better, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better.. especially on the Internet and TV speed & prices!!!
As these packages go, you'd be better off without if AT&T was your only choice. | |
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mcfrisch
Revelare Pecunia
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Lakewood, OH | I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... ... but I have Cox Preferred tier (7/512). I would not switch unless they offered 10+ MB. Elite: 6 MB... my ars!
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | Re: I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... very few people had broadband in 2000? Man you must live in BFE. I was living in a small city (50k) back in 2000 and hadn't had dialup there since 1998. | |
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Alakar
Facts do not cease to exist when ignored
join:2001-03-23
Milwaukee, WI
·AT&T Midwest
| said by inteller :very few people had broadband in 2000? Man you must live in BFE. I was living in a small city (50k) back in 2000 and hadn't had dialup there since 1998. I call BS. What ISP in what city did you have broadband from in 1998?
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | Re: I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... SBC, Fayetteville, AR. Where do you people come off with the idea that broadband did not exist until just recently? We're you all still in diapers back in 1998? | |
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rcdailey
Dragoonfly
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Rialto, CA
| Re: I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... said by inteller :SBC, Fayetteville, AR. Where do you people come off with the idea that broadband did not exist until just recently? We're you all still in diapers back in 1998? Yes, but what did you pay for it in 1998 and what was the download/upload rate for that price? There were dialup internet providers who offered free services as well as ultra-cheap web services in those days. Plus, the need for high speed internet was less then due to lower content (not so many graphics and large downloads offered). Most home users could not really justify DSL in 1998 based on price, even where it was offered (and the limitations with technology then made it less available, as well). | |
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Alakar
Facts do not cease to exist when ignored
join:2001-03-23
Milwaukee, WI
·AT&T Midwest
| said by inteller :SBC, Fayetteville, AR. Where do you people come off with the idea that broadband did not exist until just recently? We're you all still in diapers back in 1998? I again I call BS. SBC didn't even start rolling out DSL to that area until 1999. SBC didn't start their market trials until November of 1997 and that was in Austin, TX. Initial commercial deployments took place in California and Texas in 1998 with a roll out to the rest of the SBC region in 1999. At the end of 1998 there were less then 60,000 DSL subscribers in the United States.
»public.pacbell.net/press/dsl_relaunch.html
Jan. 12, 1999
SBC also announced plans today to offer ADSL service to millions of its customers in Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas by the end of 1999, and will begin ADSL trials in Connecticut later this month.
The company has also completed joint initiatives with Dell Computer Corporation and Compaq Computer to promote more convenient access to ADSL.
"We are moving aggressively to provide the advanced high-speed data services customers throughout our territory are demanding," said Edward E. Whitacre Jr., SBC chairman and CEO. "We are committed to ADSL technology and to building the multi-media corridor to homes and businesses that will enable people to change the way that they work, learn, shop and play." Whitacre said that SBC is filing tariffs today with the Federal Communications Commission for regulatory clearance to offer ADSL to customers in all five Southwestern states.
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
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| Re: I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... wow, I guess you think Austin was the only test market for SBC? You are funny. I know what I had so I could really care less what you want to believe, but it makes me giggle that you spent the time to look up that shit.
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Covington, LA | Of course it's BS. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | I was living near Toronto, and was able to get the (at the time) bleeding edge 2Mbps/256kbps from Cogeco. It was one of the newer markets getting it, and 6Mbps/1Mbps was NO WHERE.
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
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Tulsa, OK | Re: I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... well you are in Canada, that explains a lot. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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·DSL EXTREME
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| Re: I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... Actually, I'm in Los Angeles... that was back in 1999.
I don't mind having high speed, but if I'm not making decent use of it, why am I paying for it?
I.e. I make decent use of my 3Mbps/512kbps line (actually capped at 2Mbps). The ONLY time I feel a need for a higher rate, it when I need to download Fedora Core ISO images.
Can you tell me WHY I need 10 or 15Mbps ? Why I need to pay $15 to $20 more / month ?
If I could justify the cost, I might do it. Currently, for my use (remote desktop, VPN, X11, SSH, surfing, etc. ) I don't find myself needing more.
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join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
| Re: I have been repeatedly solicited by ATT to switch... said by en102 :I don't mind having high speed, but if I'm not making decent use of it, why am I paying for it? I.e. I make decent use of my 3Mbps/512kbps line (actually capped at 2Mbps). The ONLY time I feel a need for a higher rate, it when I need to download Fedora Core ISO images. For me it is a pleasure to download Linux DVD isos at 15Mbps.
said by en102 :Can you tell me WHY I need 10 or 15Mbps ? Why I need to pay $15 to $20 more / month ? If I could justify the cost, I might do it. Currently, for my use (remote desktop, VPN, X11, SSH, surfing, etc. ) I don't find myself needing more. You sound like Kirk Brannock, AT&T's Midwest network services senior vice president when trying to convince a town not to install a fiber optic network. Kirk Brannock town meeting presentation
If $15-$20 is too much for you perhaps you should consider downgrade to adsl basic 1.5Mbps? You can save money and since you don't 'need' more speed... | |
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tacoma
Bleeding Dodger Blue
Premium
join:2001-05-18
Riverside, CA
| Door to Door A sales person from AT&T went around my neighborhood doing a 'survey'. ROFL, they can't even come out and say they are trying to sell anything.
After about 5 minutes of discussion I learn that I have to have it because it's FIBER OPTIC. Then I go, it's fiber to the node not to the home.
We finally get to the TV part. I tell her, don't waste your time. I get Direct TV with the NFL package, etc. 100's of channels, including HD.
Then I said I'd like to try out the internet portion of the 'fiber optic'. She said sorry no can do. Package only, gota have tv too. AHAHAHAH What a waste of 15 minutes. | |
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allsbcliez
@pacbell.net | Yeah, they "offer" it in California, especially San Diego and then no one can get it. But I'm sure somewhere in San Diego it's available. They say San Diego is online, but where?
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join:2007-08-09
Beverly Hills, CA
| sales person from AT&T went around my neighborhood doing a 'survey'. ROFL, they can't even come out and say they are trying to sell anything. That was most likely a contractor working for a third-party company, although att IS starting to wise up and hire their own sales staff in some areas.
In Texas they definitely use third-party vendors to sell door-to-door and will be in Missouri too. | |
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