While AT&T's Q4 09 wireline earnings [1] saw the usual declines, U-Verse Digital Home Voice service, which now reaches 1 million customers, was a big contributor to the service provider's IP service growth during the quarter.
A driving factor in AT&T's residential VoIP U-Verse service growth is that customers are buying it as part of a video bundle. Since launching the U-Verse VoIP service two years ago, AT&T said that more than 67 percent of new U-Verse TV subscribers will bundle U-Verse Voice service.
Unlike Verizon [2] who struggled to meet its subscriber goals for FiOS TV during the fourth quarter, AT&T signed up 248,000 new U-Verse customers in Q4 09, bringing it to 2.1 million U-Verse subscribers overall and bringing on 1 million additional customers in 2009.
For more:
- see the release here [3]
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[1]AT&T Q3 09 wireless up, landlines down again [4]
AT&T: U-Verse on track - Fiber to the X [5] [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/t-wireless-ip-based-data-drive-q4-09-performance/2010-01-28
[2] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/verizon-q4-09-wireline-losses-drive-more-job-cuts/2010-01-27
[3] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/att-u-verse-voice-digital-home-phone-service-reaches-1-million-lines-82940387.html
[4] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/../../story/t-q3-09-wireless-landlines-down-again/2009-10-22
[5] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/../../special-reports/t-u-verse-track-fiber-x