AT&T has signed deals with retail giants, Circuit City and Wal-Mart, to make its U-verse home television service available to consumers buying new TV sets.

U-verse kiosks will be set up at some 600 Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in 13 states, posing new competition for established cable providers, which currently dominate America’s pay-TV market. Despite the recent bankcruptcy declaration of Circuit City, it will continue to provide its service and host AT&T's U-Verse.

Approximately 550,000 households had subscribed to U-verse TV as of July 1, and AT&T hopes to increase this customer base to 1-million by the end of 2008.

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