U-Verse, new technology from ATandT

So for my blog this week, I decided to write about a new thing AT&T is doing called U-Verse. My brother was telling me about it because he works for the company and so I decided to look it up. It is a pretty cool service, but one that my small town won’t be receiving for a while.

Similar to Comcast, but less expensive, they offer an all-in-one package for TV, telephone, and Internet, however this deal is a little more high tech. It allows one to check your calls from your television and then return the call with a click of the remote, which is called Click to Call. Another cool feature my brother told me about was that, not only does it have DVR recording, but if you forgot to record something you can do it remotely from your cell phone which is somehow linked to your television DVR. They also have voice over Internet Protocol (voIP), which is nice as well.

These seem like great new features and something I would totally go for since right now we have AT&T with a super slow connection speed because of where we live. In California they just finished setting up Santa Rosa and are due to hook up Lake County soon. They only service the areas that have switched over to fiber optic phone lines, so this means they will concentrate on the bigger cities first before coming to the smaller areas.

This is a stretch from what I usually talk about, but it still involves social networking because of its opportunities through communication with others via the television, computer, and/or cell phone service. Anyway, I thought it was interesting, especially since my brother works for the company.

Here is a link so you can check it out if you are interested:

U-Verse