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AT&T pulls back on U-verse, pushing DirecTV
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K.M. Richards
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How did it take AdvertisingAge this long to find this out?
AT&T has made no secret of the fact that the television component to U-verse has always been the difficult one. It fades within a couple of miles of the CO, when it does work it takes forever to change channels, and no one has come up with an answer about the carriage agreements syncing up with U-verse and DirecTV.
Must be a slow news week at AdAge.
AT&T has made no secret of the fact that the television component to U-verse has always been the difficult one. It fades within a couple of miles of the CO, when it does work it takes forever to change channels, and no one has come up with an answer about the carriage agreements syncing up with U-verse and DirecTV.
Must be a slow news week at AdAge.
Here in Connecticut, AT&T sold off its Internet and TV services to Frontier Communications in 2014.I'm a cord-cutter, so never had U-verse, but I did have stand-alone AT&T Internet. The service is still branded AT&T (and "powered by" Yahoo), but I can access WatchESPN's ESPN3 content online -- the player says "powered by Frontier" when I use it. So does anything happen to us in Connecticut or is anything AT&T does from now on no factor here?
My daughter has U-verse. She lives in an apartment building in Toledo.
No way in heck her landlord is gonna let her put up a dish.
No way in heck her landlord is gonna let her put up a dish.
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K.M. Richards
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You'd be surprised how federal law has limited landlords' ability to block same in the past decade or so.
https://www.fcc.gov/media/over-air-reception-devices-rule
Yep. As long as the renter has an area under their exclusive use like a patio or balcony and doesn't mount the dish directly to the building/roof there isn't much a landlord can do about it. When I rented I planted my Directv dish in a 5 gallon bucket with some quikrete in it. Then ran some flat coax past the sliding glass door to get the signal inside.
And I was far from the only one doing it. I would say half of building was doing the same thing. Though a few were using zip ties to tie the dish to the balcony railing. I used a bucket so the management company couldn't fault me for any damage when I left.
Yep. As long as the renter has an area under their exclusive use like a patio or balcony and doesn't mount the dish directly to the building/roof there isn't much a landlord can do about it. When I rented I planted my Directv dish in a 5 gallon bucket with some quikrete in it. Then ran some flat coax past the sliding glass door to get the signal inside.
And I was far from the only one doing it. I would say half of building was doing the same thing. Though a few were using zip ties to tie the dish to the balcony railing. I used a bucket so the management company couldn't fault me for any damage when I left.
even then, you need a clear view of the South
She does not have any balconies. My brother lived in an apartment building where the units did.
People would get a 5 gallon bucket, fill it with concrete, mount the dish in there and stick it out on the patio.
People would get a 5 gallon bucket, fill it with concrete, mount the dish in there and stick it out on the patio.
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K.M. Richards
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That, of course, is a given regardless of house or apartment, rent or own. Federal law can't fix that deficiency if it exists (but wouldn't it be nice if it could?).
I still have my DirecTV dish on the roof of my building, even though I no longer have the service. My landlord told me he didn't care as long as no one drilled into the roof beams themselves, so DirecTV lashed the antenna mount to one of the attic air vent pipes with metal straps instead. Worked perfectly for well over five years before I cancelled.
I am surprised that the vent pipes were solid enough so the antenna didn't twist. Most of those are plastic (hard or soft).
Those buckets sometimes leave rust stains if they've been there for a while. Either use plastic buckets or buy a "ground mount" and toss a couple of 20 lb sandbags on the bottom rung.
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K.M. Richards
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This building was constructed in the mid-1950s. Metal vent pipes.
It was an orange 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot. I've never seen a plastic bucket leave rust stains.
That's why I said this: "Those buckets sometimes leave rust stains if they've been there for a while. Either use plastic buckets or buy a "ground mount" and toss a couple of 20 lb sandbags on the bottom rung."
On the other hand, FiOS Internet is fast!! I started with 150/150 when I moved last year, and now upgraded to 300/300 and I consistently get even a little bit more on both upload and download times.
We'll see how it competes against Google Fiber.
FiOS is fiber, with a home (residential) maximum of 500/500. And it is fully here, now with millions of passes. Google Fibre is in almost an Alpha stage.
They're doing installs now in several growing markets. It should be up and running in those markets by the end of the year.
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