AT&T's IPTV service picking up

AT&T's nascent IPTV service, U-verse TV, is now picking up. The subscribers are being hooked up at a pace of 2,000 per week, five times its average rate in January. A rollout into the massive Los Angeles market is now imminent. In total, the company now has 18,000 U-verse TV subscribers.
The current state of the U-verse rollout is roughly what had been expected to be the status in the middle to end of last year, with estimates now that the program is running perhaps six months late. Neither AT&T or Microsoft have ever admitted to the reasons for the delays. Indeed Microsoft has denied reported middleware problems, and AT&T has insisted that upgrades in its network hardware were business as usual, and not something prompted by its discovery that U-verse TV wouldn't work on much of its older network links.

Many in the industry are watching with interest to see how the Microsoft TV installation scales as more and more subscribers sign on. U-verse offer more High Definition channels than local cable companies in the markets and has the ability to record up to four programs at once, and the ability to set DVR recordings remotely using the AT&T Yahoo! portal or, soon, a mobile device.
Microsoft has announced that it had signed up a raft of additional suppliers with technologies that support its IPTV software. That list includes AMD, Intel, Pirelli Broadband Solutions, Sun Microsystems and Thomson.

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