The New York Times' David Pogue brings about a compelling discussion about how AT&T's new capped rate plan cold actually wind up saving most customers money.

I don't know about my own personal situation, because I tend to get way too much email (much of it Spam that is increasingly harder and harder to manage), but I do suspect for most Americans, the DataPlus plan at $15 per month may be just fine.

AT&T offers a pretty nifty Data Calculator you may download here. Read Pogue's post here and start sharpening your pencil. Contrary to the shit storm from places, like Gizmodo or Engadget, he may just be on to something - and so could you.

AT&T owns an important franchise in the YellowPages brand.  They are reinventing what was thought of as a big yellow book into something they call YP.com.  In this video, Jeff Weber, demonstrates calling a local establishment in his neighborhood and then with the click of his remote, U-verse voice connects him with a voice call to his iPhone.

AT&T shows the present and gives a glimpse into the future at the U-verse Showcase

by Rick Limpert - Atlanta Gadgets Examiner

AT&T Touts U-verse Reality

by Phil Harvey - Light Reading

AT&T Hints at 3DTV Plans
Bernie Arnason - Telecompetitor

Earlier in the week on Tuesday, I joined a group of industry analysts and journalists at the AT&T Labs in Atlanta for a briefing on what AT&T saw as being the future of television.

I have been absent from 3Screens for a while. 

No excuses here - but some reasoning:

1.  Most of my focus has been on U-verse.  It was very compelling when it was first launched because AT&T was the first operator in the U.S. to do real IPTV.  

Without being a fan boy, I think they have done a great job in executing.  Sure, along the way there have been hick-ups, but anytime there was a problem, their customer support on the phone and when they showed up in person was first rate.  So way to go, AT&T.

I also thought it was interesting that AT&T was in the process of reinventing itself.

Other than making slight improvements there was not much more to write about, so I purposely scaled back coverage. 

2.  The other reason for not posting is that aside from my day job, I have also been populating another blog,Everywire, where I am writing about the vision of the wired home network - specifically, the new ITU standard, G.hn.

Moving forward, I am trying to look at what's ahead, particularly for U-verse.  Here's a preview from my Everywire blog.  Microsoft provides AT&T with the "middleware" the stuff that makes the interface pretty, let's you go through the menu, etc.  Think of it as being the Operating System for your IPTV.  The "Contoso" name you see is a made up brand.  AT&T and other operators around the world can take all or just selected feature sets from Microsoft's Media Room offering.  

I am shifting site from being on TypePad and going to Posterous.