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Over the last two years, I have been meeting periodically with San Antonio’s Ed Cross, whose vision of making the city’s urban core a great and fun place to live.  Now with his Vistana ready for move in, Ed decided to go with U-verse that is pre-wired in the building.  Here’s my interview and tour….
The Vistana – Urban Residential High Rise Apartments in San Antonio with AT&T U-verse from Alan Weinkrantz on Vimeo.

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Yesterday’s announcement by AT&T offering a great site where you could watch online shows was just a tip of the iceberg.  Here’s 25 Places to Watch the Fall TV Season Online …

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About 18 months ago, I asked Ralph de la Vega when I could control my AT&T U-verseSM TV with my iPhone.  Well now, I can.  Sort of.  As long as you are away from home. 

AT&T has …

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My $99 per month U-verse  plan that gives me the whole enchilada of the U-verse 400 package, 6 MB of Internet and U-verse Voice is expiring in mid-June.  TimeWarner in my market is offering …

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Over the last two years, I have been meeting periodically with San Antonio’s Ed Cross, whose vision of making the city’s urban core a great and fun place to live.  Now with his Vistana …

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AT&T is once again disrupting the cable and satellite companies as they illustrate what IP communications can do. As my pal, Jeff Pulver, used to tell me, "on IP networks, video is just …

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Even with financial markets imploding, there is some good news out there. 
I just learned that AT&T now has more than HD Channels in every market they are in when compared to the old school …

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As the phone company as we no longer know it reaches 1,000,000 home subscribers to U-verse, you would think that they would provide a Channel Guide within the Yahoo TV listing to include U-verse. 
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Here’s an example of a piece I just submitted to an Telecommunications industry trade publication, XChange Magazine on my take about U-verse and the Experience retail stores.
Do you
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For several months, I have had AT&T’s  Internet Max service which gives me 10MB speed in the house.
Frankly, I don’t see a huge difference. 
I am going back to the Elite service …

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Attention WalMart (and Circuit City) customers….
AT&T today announced agreements with Circuit City and Wal-Mart to sell AT&T U-verseSM TV and AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet
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At first glance, the just announced i.TV free programming guide for the
iPhone would be a really handy tool for checking out the latest programming on AT&T’s U-verse.

On small problem. …

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AT&T has  announced that its AT&T U-verse TV ranks highest in customer satisfaction among residential television customers in all three regions where it was ranked, according to the …

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If you are looking to compare U-verse Voice to what the cable guys are doing, click here.
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In May of this year, I started my 3rd year here at 3Screens.net.
If you are a member of the media, and industry analyst or fellow blogger needing a real world, independent consumer’s view …

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Now into being a 3rd year U-verse customer, I have been hearing all about the potential of true home networking.

That vision is now being put to the test with the launch of AT&T U-verse …

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I am still doing some testing of U-verse Voice in my home. 
Overall, it’s going well and I really do like it, but I need more time to play around with it.
If you are a journalist or industry …

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Wanna rent a special Pay-Per-View Event on U-verse?
Real easy.

Press GUIDE on your AT&T remote control.  Go to Pay Per View Channel 102 by using the up / down browse arrows.
Select the …

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Renting a video from U-verse saves you a trip to the video store – and back.
Here’s all you do:

Press VIDEO ON DEMAND on your AT&T U-verse Remote
Use the down arrow to select …

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If you want to record any of your favorite programs on your U-verse system, it’s really easy and you can record up to four shows at once – even if they are on at the same time.
Here’s …

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Today, I had a demo of U-verse Voice, AT&T’s consumer VoIP phone service.

Where AT&T’s U-verse Voice stands out is in its integration under the U-verse brand name and its …