U-Verse Connection for Cat5/RG6

For many old homeowners with no high-tech wiring like Cat5 or RG6, can the AT&T install U-verse without drilling thousand of holes and re-wire the entire house (I am exaggerating here)? I already order U-verse package recently and inquire about how the installer going to hook up and all the setup. Currently I have DirecTV and the install hook up the discs via cable box since the house was built around 1999 with cable in mind. I asked AT&T reps how the installer going to install the service and they obviously don't have a clue. Such typical from AT&T about customer service without a clue when you ask for details installation.

I really want to know ahead as to how the installer going to hook up the service. This is how understand the telephone fiber optic works - the signal/service is running via fiber optic in the street to your neighborhood telephone junction box and then to your home telephone box locate outside the house. Now if my house is not built with Cat5/RG6, how is the installer run the wire to the modem or receiver.

Your advice would be greatly appreciated. By the way is RG6 a coax cable like regular cable from says Warner or Cox?

At my condo they ended up coming in over my phone line. The building is over 50 years old and the RG6 cable outlets are actually owned by the cable company and inaccessible.

From the phone jack, they plugged a short run of regular phone line, then an adapter that changed the signal to run on RG6 (cable). This runs to the Set top box on the other side of the room. I'm not 100% keen on the bare cable running along the baseboard, but I'm so much happier with U-verse than Cable it's worth it.