AT&T access plan challenged

Across the country, AT&T’s new U-verse video service has relegated hundreds of public, educational, and governmental (PEG) stations to submenus on a single Channel 99, where accessing a particular channel is cumbersome and time-consuming, and picture and sound quality are on a par with YouTube, access advocates say. But Illinois’s video franchise law, passed last year, provides much stronger protections for consumers and for public access — and some cities are demanding AT&T follow the law.
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