Perverse U-Verse

How long does it take U-Verse to change to a PEG access channel from a commercial channel? This silent video shows.

This video, prepared by Ross Braver of the City of San Jose, was presented by the Alliance for Community Media at the House Telecommunications Subcommittee Hearing, "PEG Services in the Digital Age," January 29, 2008.

Chairman Ed Markey (D, MA-07) responded:

"I think every guy who is here knows - and every woman who sees a guy with a clicker in his hand - knows that that guy can watch the news, a sporting event, and a movie simultaneously, clicking back and forth - and no guy waiting a minute and thirty seconds for any station to come on, so that has to get fixed."

Written testimony from the ACM, the Mayor of Dearborn, MI, AT&T, and Comcast, is available at: http://www.ourchannels.org/?p=116 . The hearing video can be streamed and downloaded at: http://www.archive.org/details/PEGservicesInDigitalAge

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• AT&T
• U-Verse
• PEG
• Access
• Cable
• ACM
• Markey
• telecommunications
• federal
• government
• nonprofit

[brandongregory79]

looks like you need a tech out there to fix that, make sure they change all fittings and wall plates

[ACMNational]

If only it were that easy.

No, this is how U-Verse delivers local public, education, and government access channels, in ALL installations.

This problem, and a raft of others, is due to AT&T's short-shrift implementation of IPTV for ONLY THESE CHANNELS.

If it were just shoddy installs, the City of Palo Alto and DeAnza College wouldn't have these concerns:

"Changes to public channels worry Media Center, city"

by Becky Trout; Palo Alto Online, 2/13/08

Even AT&T doesn't deny the delay.

[sfvideoguy]

bmavpa,

This video is a demo of the PEG (Public Educational and Government) channels. Channel 99 WAS entered as you suggest. AT&T aggregates them under this channel, and forces you to use a drop-down menu system to select the channel for your community. For what you suggest to work, each city would need channel #'s assigned for its unique channels--and that doesn't happen. PEG is treated differently from commercial channels, which puts it in violation of CA, IL and a few other states' laws.

[ogblanco64]

More of the same of how AT&T has been screwing over customers here in the South Bay; you'd think with all the tech in the heart of Silcone Valley they'd come with something more... "broadband-ish"-? Hell if we got YouToob, why bother with U-Verse?

(can you spell "Net Neutrality"-?)

[manicindhouse]

This is a whole lot of shit i am an IT Engineer with a Masters from Sheffield.

I just changed from Comcast to ATT It fcukin rocks !!!!

It has an independent line unlike comcast i have my comcast runnin for the next week just incase i dint like ATT to play it safe its only been a day i know for sure im sayin goodbye to comcast!

[AndrewSa888]

U-VERSE IS THE BEST!!!!

[JudoKong]

wow fool you are an idiot. im a uverse guy too. but im not contracted out. if that was the problem then this person would prolly be complaining about there internet being slow and not the stupid PEG channels.... WHO WATCHES THOSE?

[yortnoraa]

uh you think you know how the cable co. shit works but you don't. I live in a collage town and comcast has added alot ore fiber nodes and I havent seen any slower internet speed actually i'm down loading at 26Mbps and 3Mbps up

[DaUverseGuy]

until school's back in and kids start downloading because youre on a shared network

[DaUverseGuy]

how fast will your internet be with direct...just wondering.... WHATS THAT YOU SAY?!?!? ZERO?!?!?!?

[DaUverseGuy]

i Am the verse Guy. A tech. the reason you have lag is due to Low upstream rates. This can be caused by issues outside, so you need to have them come out and tell them you need an I&R ticket made for that. Click my name for other repair tips.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work