As Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski [URL=http://gamepolitics.com/2010/04/13/big-decision-looms-fcc%E2%80%99s-genachowski]grapples with a decision[/URL] on whether or not to reclassify broadband service in order to wield influence over it, AT&T is playing hardball by threatening to cut back on its U-Verse spending in light of additional government authority.

U-Verse is an AT&T IPTV service that offers high-speed Internet, phone and television programming and counts 2.3 million current subscribers. It is currently available to 24 million homes, a number expected to reach 30 million by the end of 2011. AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson [URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704009804575308740137159622.html?mod=googlenews_wsj]told the Wall Street Journal[/URL] however, that FCC reclassifying of broadband from Title 1 to Title 2 would mean, “…we have to re-evaluate whether we put shovels in the ground.”
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