AT&T Enters TV-Over-IP Market Posted Wed Jan 18, 2006, 12:44 PM ET

AT&T has snuck into the television-delivery market on silent cat feet. Without fanfare, the company formerly known as SBC has begun providing TV-over-IP service to a lucky handful in its hometown of San Antonio, Texas. Ironically, that's the same state where arch-rival Verizon has premiered its own television service. Unlike Verizon's capital-intensive all-fiber-optic approach, which extends fiber directly into the home, AT&T is building fiber only as far as "nodes" in the neighborhood, then compressing the signal into copper lines for the final leg of the journey. AT&T's initial offerings include 200 channels, including all the major networks, and some on-demand programming. This is a huge story and I'll get back to it as soon as I know more.

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Posted Wed Jan18, 2006, 7:25 PM — By Mark Fleischmann AT&T is keeping mum about the details. Are there any viewers out there in San Antonio who know the answer?

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