AT&T has announced that AT&T Homezone(SM) customers can now access one of the nation’s most robust collections of High Definition (HD) content available: With more than 30 national HD channels — and additional local HD channels for each market — Homezone service offers customers access to more HD channels than its local cable competitors while providing thousands of video-on-demand titles, access to the system via wireless phones and more — all through a single receiver.

AT&T Homezone service integrates AT&T | DISH Network and features of AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet. It allows customers to enjoy satellite TV programming, net-based on-demand content, and music and photos via their TV screens and stereos. It also features digital videorecording technology and remote access to the system through Web-enabled PCs or WAP-2.0 compatible wireless phones.

The service is available across AT&T’s traditional 13-state broadband footprint to new and existing AT&T | DISH Network residential customers who either have or plan to order AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and the AT&T Wireless Gateway.*

The current HD channel lineup is provided by AT&T | DISH Network and includes a wide variety of programs, including news, sports, movies and more. The HD content delivered to Homezone customers produces images that are four times as detailed as standard definition (SD) TV and provides rich, realistic video and multichannel, movie-theater-quality sound.

Homezone service’s HD content, combined with the offerings of AT&T | DISH Network standard definition (SD) programming, and the wide variety of on-demand content available via strategic relationships with Movielink and Akimbo, further expands AT&T’s video portfolio — and offers end users more variety and choice than ever before.

“Our goal is to deliver a video solution that provides greater value, flexibility and simplicity than our competitors deliver,” said Rick Welday, chief marketing officer-AT&T Consumer. “Compelling features such as one of the largest lineups of HD programming offer our customers another reason why AT&T can be the only communications and entertainment company they will ever want.”

Customers can add the AT&T | DISH HD package to their entertainment experience. Through June 2007, new AT&T | DISH customers will be able to enjoy free HD channels for a year when they order qualifying SD and HD programming and packages. After the free year, AT&T | DISH Network HD programming will be $20 a month. The monthly $9.99 fee for Homezone service and $5.98 for digital videorecorder (DVR) functionality will remain the same.

The new HD programming complements other unique Homezone features, including:

– Remote access to the DVR, which allow customers to schedule recordings
with their compatible wireless phones and devices or by using their
AT&T Yahoo! Internet accounts.
– Up to 140 hours of TV recording capacity.
– A 30-second DVR skip feature, enabling customers to skip commercials
with the press of a button.
– Access to a library of more than 7,000 total on-demand titles -
including more than 1,000 full-length movies available on demand,
surpassing the on-demand movie libraries offered from cable.

AT&T Homezone service also complements AT&T U-verse(SM) TV, the company’s cutting-edge Internet Protocol (IP)-based television service. AT&T U-verse services are currently available in 21 markets, and the company plans to continue expanding the availability of these services on an ongoing basis. Although AT&T U-verse services will be the company’s primary video offer in available markets, both products underscore the company’s strategy to expand its video services portfolio, which also includes AT&T | DISH Network service.

With Homezone service, which launched in fall 2006, AT&T became the first national telecommunications provider to offer seamlessly integrated video content and TV entertainment to the “digital living room” through both broadband and traditional satellite networks. Awarded the 2007 North American Product of the Year by Frost & Sullivan, AT&T Homezone service integrates AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, AT&T | DISH Network satellite television and AT&T home networking services via a single set-top device.