Saturday, March 08, 2008

Public access on U-Verse

For those of you who are unaware, due to ongoing changes in the regulatory environment of cable TV... Cox Cable now has competition in Cheshire (I think it's already available for some houses, though not mine off of Bradford Drive). The competitor is AT&Ts U-Verse. I don't know that much about the product, but the MRJ (by George Moore) is reporting on one of the more contentious issues... the availability of public access channels.

As for my personal knowledge on when it will be available to you at your own house... a few months ago I was driving down my street and I saw an AT&T lineman working. So I stopped and asked him the deal. He said that the rollout is taking time because it is very labor intensive. But as the service becomes available in a particular neighborhood, AT&T will be mailing out notices to each household.

Tim White

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

No local channels, that is right.
With Charter revision the dems will require everyone to have the AT&T version so public cannot see the workings of government.

Anonymous said...

Uverse is an excellent service. And importantly less expensive....if its available in your area, by all means switch....you wont regret it

Anonymous said...

While public access is rolling out on U-verse, it isn't flawless. For instance, this this video
shows the delay that exists for many PEG channels.