olivant, I have AT&T U-Verse here in the Pearland/Houston area. I love it. I had Time Warner Cable in New York like TIS has in California and it SUCKED! The equipment was cheap and broke down every 6 months. The workers didn't know how to fix things and didn't show any type of caring to assist. I'm glad I don't have Time Warner anymore!

In my area we have 2 options: AT&T U-Verse or Comcast. Comcast is more expensive and I've heard bad things about them (I've never had them myself). I've only had AT&T for about 5 months now but no problems. Customer friendly, quality products/service. I was in Austin last weekend and AT&T just put fiberoptics in because Google came into that market. Next will be Dallas followed by Houston but that won't be for another 2-3 years the technician said unless Google Fiber decides to come sooner (which I hope they do because then AT&T would be there the next day).