Bright House Networks Files Complaint Against AT&T with FCC

Bright House Networks has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission about AT&T's marketing, saying that vendors for the telco made false and misleading statements in an effort to leverage the DTV transition into more customers for its U-Verse multichannel video service. Bright House claims that AT&T has been trying to scare customers in several Michigan communities into switching to U-Verse by claiming that BHN will be unable to offer local TV stations after the transition, that it will need to "rewire" homes at a cost of $300-$400, and that BHN customers will need AT&T equipment to get local broadcast stations.