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Uverse Availability-Is Uverse a dead product offering ?
Will somone tell the truth. Is Uverse a dead product ? I hear that ATT has built out Uverse and its not available for future customers. ATT is now pushing Direct TV and thats all that will be offered in the way of digital television. And for us with wireline telephone and DSL service, we are at the mercy of spare parts, and should any legacy equipment that services my phone-dsl account fail, I am screwed because spare parts are not available.
I also read that ATT is dumping its wireline customers as fast as they can to Frontier and others.
I have had DirectTV for over 10 years, and when I learned that ATT was buying DirectTV, it was a shock, because another good company was gobbled up by another bad company.
So tell us the truth....Is Uverse no longer offered because there is no more new equipment, and is legacy wireline phone and DSL at risk because there are no more spare parts ?
JefferMC
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9 years ago
Legacy wIreline phone and conventional DSL are at risk because they cost a lot to maintain and operate. Part of that is spare parts for some 20 to 30 year old equipment. Another part is lots of long individual pairs of copper wire. So, yes, the traditional POTS companies want to modernize and go VOIP and drop long loop DSL.
AT&T is currently still signing up people to new 2-year TV packages, so apparently it will last at least that long. AT&T has indicated that they wish to merge U-verse TV and DIRECTV into a single Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) TV Receiver platform.
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