CNET has a write-up describing AT&T's U-Verse IPTV service and the challenges they now face in terms of acquiring customers, proving service quality, and being able to support new features going forward. The article should have been titled, "IPTV Prepares for Prime Time in the U.S." IPTV has actually been slow to take shape in the U.S. compared with Europe, Asia, and even Canada, where some companies have been offering IPTV for several years.

Despite semantics though, it will be interesting to see how the offerings of AT&T and Verizon stack up in the near and long term with both of them taking dramatically different approaches in their network rollouts. Is AT&T clever in their network approach or will they end up with a bottleneck long-term?

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