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BRIEF: ATandT introducing IP-TV in Chattanooga this summerApr 30, 2010 (Chattanooga Times Free Press - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- AT&T Chairman, CEO and President Randall Stephenson announced the introduction of the company's new U-Verse TV, Internet and Voice service in Chattanooga this summer during today's AT&T stockholders meeting at the Chattanoogan hotel. U-Verse, delivered over AT&T's Internet Protocol network, will become the only 100 percent Internet Protocol-based TV service offered in the city, he said. AT&T's said that U-Verse will move to compete with existing Comcast cable and EPB's fiber-optic networks, and will offer new features like using an iPhone as a remote control or viewing screen, watching multiple stations covering a single event and the ability to pause a program in one room and resume watching in another. Mr. Stephenson claimed that AT&T added one million new subscribers last year to the relatively new service, for a total of two million customers. To see more of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.timesfreepress.com. Copyright (c) 2010, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. |