AT&T says it is happy with an additional 15,000 video subscribers to its IPTV service so far this year and announced plans to roll out the U-verse service in the Los Angeles area in the coming weeks.

The carrier launched the service in Texas late last year and ended 2006 with 3,000 U-verse customers. AT&T said the U-verse service is now available to 200,000 homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and in parts of Milwaukee, Kansas City, Houston and San Antonio.

AT&T lost 1.4m residential phone lines last year, mostly to cable TV and wireless operators.