On May 17th, 2021 with 57 comments
AT&T has agreed to spin off its media operations in a deal with Discovery that will create a new entertainment company, merging assets ranging from CNN and...
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On March 29th, 2021 with 260 comments
AT&T is lobbying against proposals to subsidize fiber-to-the-home deployment across the U.S., arguing that rural people don't need fiber and should be...
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On January 27th, 2021 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader writes: AT&T lost 617,000 customers from DirecTV and its other TV businesses in the final quarter of 2020, capping a year in which it...
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On December 23rd, 2020 with 32 comments
The Federal Communications Commission's ongoing sale of wireless licenses has fetched more than $66.4 billion after three weeks of bidding, a record sum that...
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On October 7th, 2020 with 59 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T is reportedly moving ahead with its plan to sell DirecTV despite receiving bids that value the...
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On September 18th, 2020 with 45 comments
AT&T is considering offering wireless phone plans partially subsidized by advertising as soon as a year from now, Chief Executive John Stankey said in an...
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On August 31st, 2020 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: AT&T is once again looking to sell its DirecTV unit, a business that has lost billions of dollars in...
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On August 10th, 2020 with 61 comments
AT&T's WarnerMedia division is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in AT&T's latest cost-cutting move. Ars Technica reports: "Warner Bros. is...
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On July 23rd, 2020 with 19 comments
Having launched preliminary 5G services using millimeter wave hardware in late 2018, AT&T has technically been operating a 5G network for a year and a half...
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On April 24th, 2020 with 25 comments
AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said he will retire at the end of June (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), handing leadership of one...
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On March 13th, 2020 with 51 comments
AT&T is the first major ISP to confirm that it will be suspending all broadband usage caps as millions of Americans bunker down in a bid to slow the rate...
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On March 4th, 2020 with 100 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T is planning tens of billions of dollars worth of cost cuts, AT&T President and COO John...
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On February 29th, 2020 with 29 comments
The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it has proposed fining the nation's four largest wireless carriers $200 million for selling access...
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On December 5th, 2019 with 54 comments
A new FCC study confirms what most people already knew: when it comes to wireless coverage maps, your mobile carrier is often lying to you. From a report: If...
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On November 22nd, 2019 with 35 comments
Normally, major 5G network expansion news has been exciting enough for carriers to announce first thing in the morning, but AT&T just continued its already...
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On November 7th, 2019 with 105 comments
AT&T is adding $10 to the monthly bills of customers with certain grandfathered mobile-data plans and not letting them switch back to their older packages....
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On November 7th, 2019 with 82 comments
Something strange is happening with text messages in the US right now. Overnight, a multitude of people received text messages that appear to have originally...
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On October 25th, 2019 with 12 comments
According to Reuters, AT&T is exploring an ad-supported tier for HBO Max that would launch in 2021. "That's one year after HBO Max is expected to launch as...
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On October 11th, 2019 with 69 comments
"AT&T has been charging business Internet customers a 'property tax' fee, claiming it needs to charge this to recover AT&T's own property taxes,"...
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On October 9th, 2019 with 15 comments
According to The Wall Street Journal, AT&T has agreed to sell its Puerto Rican and U.S. Virgin Islands businesses to Liberty Latin America for $1.95...
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On September 19th, 2019 with 59 comments
According to The Wall Street Journal, AT&T is exploring parting with its DirecTV unit as customers are leaving the service in droves. From the report: The...
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On August 19th, 2019 with 49 comments
U.S. wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling...
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On July 29th, 2019 with 98 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The Department of Justice has approved T-Mobile's controversial $26 billion merger with Sprint. And while...
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On July 25th, 2019 with 75 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T lost 946,000 TV subscribers in Q2 2019, a loss that the company attributed to price increases,...
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On July 9th, 2019 with 61 comments
AT&T will start automatically blocking fraud calls and issuing suspected spam call alerts for new phone customers at no extra cost. "You'll have to opt out...
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On June 6th, 2019 with 150 comments
The FCC voted unanimously today to allow carriers to block robocalls by default, setting the stage for the major carriers to take action against the surge of...
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On March 20th, 2019 with 139 comments
At an Economic Club event in Washington, DC today, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was interrupted on stage by a robocall, pausing an interview in front of...
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On January 23rd, 2019 with 96 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Comcast's cable division spent 3 percent less on capital expenditures last year, despite promises that...
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On January 8th, 2019 with 180 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: AT&T is preparing for yet another significant round of layoffs according to internal documents...
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On January 7th, 2019 with 283 comments
AT&T's DirecTV, Dish, and Comcast are all planning to raise their rates again in the new year, "a move that could boost revenue but risks alienating...
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