AT&T U-verse - History

History

SBC Communications (now AT&T Inc.) announced its plans for a fiber-optic network and IPTV deployment in 2004 and unveiled the name "U-verse" for the suite of network services on January 6, 2005. Beta testing began in San Antonio, in 2005, and AT&T U-verse was commercially launched June 26, 2006 in San Antonio. Later in 2006 the product launched in San Francisco, Hartford, Indianapolis, and other cities in their vicinity. On January 25, 2007, AT&T announced that U-verse was available to over 2.8 million households, and that year U-verse was launched in Milwaukee, Dallas, Kansas City, Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Diego, and Oklahoma City.

U-verse Voice was added January 22, 2008, first available in Detroit. In 2008, U-verse availability approached 8 million households, and over 225,000 customers had been enrolled, with new installations reaching 12,000 per week. By 2009, 1 million U-verse Voice customers and 2.1 million U-verse TV customers had been enrolled.

At the end of 2011, U-verse was available to more than 30 million living units in 22 states, and U-verse TV had 3.8 million customers. By mid-2012, U-verse TV had 4.1 million customers, U-verse Voice 2.6 million, and U-Verse High Speed Internet 6.5 million.

By the 3rd quarter of 2012, U-verse had 4.3 million TV subscribers, 2.7 million Voice subscribers and 7.1 million High Speed Internet. This represents 7% growth quarter on quarter. The actual number of customers is lower, as most customers are subscribed to a bundle (e.g. TV+Voice) and are counted in both categories

In 3rd quarter of 2012 AT&T President John Stankey announced that U-Verse deployment was 'virtually over'.

On November 07, 2012 AT&T announced plans to expand and enhance its wireline IP network to 75 percent of all customer locations in its wireline service area by year-end 2015.

U-verse. Expand U-verse by more than one-third or about 8.5 million additional customer locations. The expansion is expected complete by year-end 2015.

U-verse IPDSLAM. The company plans to offer U-verse IPDSLAM service to 24 million customer locations in its wireline service area by year-end 2013.

Speed Upgrades. The Project VIP plan includes an upgrade for U-verse to speeds of up to 75Mbps and for U-verse IPDSLAM to speeds of up to 45Mbps