AT&T’s All New U-worse

by The Editors on June 24, 2008

Logo AttuverseWe finally pulled the plug on Time Warner Cable. We could not continue to justify paying $140 a month for a system that never worked properly (OnDemand especially).

No sooner did we quit cable than we started hearing that AT&T was sending people door-to-door in Carlsbadistan selling their new “100% digitally delivered television,” Internet, and phone service called U-verse. We’ve written about U-verse before and the reviews have not been good.

Today we got the following from a reader who switched to AT&T’s U-verse for about a week, but is now going back to cable:

“AT&T sucks! Hard selling (contracted sales force) Girls roaming the neighborhoods selling the savings of AT&T. . . My whole bundle of services was down for 3 days+ (including the phone). All the techs are nice but it gets down to a unreliable service. So now we are on the Disconnect AT&T program and going back to Time Warner.”

If you’ve signed up for AT&T’s U-verse service, please let us know how it’s going. We’re personally going to just stick with Internet and Apple TV, but there may be others who would like to know what they’re getting into before then go through all the hassles.

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

Sam June 25, 2008 at 10:55 pm

I have had UVerse since the beginning of the year and have been very happy with it, I think its a much better deal than Time Warner.

Joe June 27, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Had Time Warner but left for U-Verse. Turns out U-Verse does not carry the Padres games. 162 HD Padres games are carried on channel 4HD on Time Warner. None on U-Verse. We switched back to Time Warner and haven’t missed a game.

Brady July 1, 2008 at 3:28 pm

I’ve been using U-Verse for quite some time and overall have been quite happy. We had one outage for a day or so, though I have had similar problems with cable. I got really tired of crappy cable service in a market apparently no one cares about. The DVR is pretty good, and having all those HD channels is nice (with HD recording). Though, Joe is right – if you really must watch the Padres lose in glorious HD then U-Verse is not for you (my sales rep told us we wouldn’t be able to get the games when he signed us up, and the manager type who checked up on us via the phone made sure we knew as well).

Farbet August 14, 2008 at 7:35 am

Is U-verse available in 92078 ,San Marcos

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