AT&T Launches Homezone Converged Television Service in San Diego

7:50 am on August 18, 2006 | Category: Internet, Telecom Services, Television

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Integrated home media is finally becoming a reality in the city of San Diego, where AT&T has launched its much-hyped Homezone IPTV service.

Homezone is intended to converge TV with broadband, allowing customers to download movies directly from the internet onto their television sets, as well as view digital photos and listen to MP3 music files.

The launch of this new service will allow AT&T to better compete with cable rivals such as Time Warner and Cox Communications, which attract customers with discounted rates on triple play television, internet, and digital phone bundles.

AT&T already has a partnership with EchoStar Communications, which allows it to offer the Dish Network satellite TV service, but this offering has been slow to catch on. In the second quarter, only 533,000 of the telecom giant’s 33.1 million telephone customers also subscribed to the satellite television service.

Allowing customers to download movies onto their television sets brings AT&T up to the same technological standard as the VOD offerings of cable companies, but America’s telecom leader still has a lot of work to do in promoting the service and convincing cable customers to switch.

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