AT&T Continues to Fuel IT Growth

AT&T will announce today plans to create 475 jobs in several communities across Indiana, sinking even more resources into expanding its Internet-based TV service.

Gov. Mitch Daniels will join AT&T Indiana President George Fleetwood in Anderson for the afternoon announcement.

AT&T spokeswoman Molly Cornbleet said the jobs will be for service technicians, responsible for installing U-verse and upgrading the company's fiber-optic network to handle video. U-verse is AT&T's brand of Internet Protocol TV, or IPTV, a method for transmitting television signals over a broadband Internet connection rather than a satellite dish or cable line.

Cornbleet declined to give specifics about which cities will get the jobs or what the U-verse technicians would be paid.

So far this year, AT&T has vowed to create about 1,000 jobs at call centers in Indianapolis and Evansville. Today's announcement will bring that total to nearly 1,500.