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In San Antonio test market, customers can get voice, wireless, broadband and television services
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August 5, 2008 (Network World) AT&T Inc. is testing its new U-Verse voice services by making them available to all current U-Verse customers in the San Antonio area.
U-Verse, the IP television service that AT&T first launched two years ago to compete with traditional cable companies, will offer voice, wireless, broadband and television services to customers living in San Antonio, the company said. U-Verse's voice service will go directly over the company's U-Verse network, not over the public Internet.
The company said the U-Verse voice services will have several new features, including the ability to combine customers' voice-over-IP service with AT&T wireless voice mail, a "U-Verse Central" online management portal that lets customers manage call preferences and voice mail from their personal computers, a click-to-call feature that initiates calls to any number within customers' call-history logs, and a "Locate Me" feature that lets customers receive simultaneous rings on four wireless or land-line numbers. In adition, AT&T said that unlike some VoIP services, U-Verse voice customers will have direct access to their local 911 networks.
AT&T will offer two U-Verse voice plans. U-Verse Voice Unlimited costs $40 a month and will include unlimited local and nationwide minutes to any location in the U.S. or Canada. U-Verse Voice 1000 will cost $30 a month and include 1,000 call minutes to anywhere in the U.S. Customers also can add a second line to their U-Verse voice service for $20 a month.
AT&T estimated that U-Verse currently has 549,000 subscribers nationwide. The company began offering U-Verse packages to small businesses earlier this year, although it has yet to offer an enterprise-grade version of the service.
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