AT&T (NYSE: T) believes that business telecom service spending will continue to improve. Speaking at this week’s Barclays Capital 2010 Global Communications, Media & Technology Conference in New York City, Ron Spears, CEO of Business Solutions, believes that business spending is beginning to stabilize. “If current trends hold, we would like to think headwinds we’ve seen [...]
While Verizon’s LTE plans have gotten a lot of press, specific details (especially pricing) on the service have been limited — outside of the fact the service will launch in 25-30 markets sometime this year, at speeds somewhere between 5-12 Mbps downstream. But like AT&T — Verizon does continue to hint at new pricing that [...]
As we noted yesterday, T-Mobile is expanding faster HSPA+ 3G wireless broadband service into additional markets. However, in their announcement they took a few creative liberties — referring to the fact their service delivers “4G speeds” — despite really only being a 3G service. AT&T, who is also deploying HSPA+ before migrating to LTE, apparently [...]
As we noted yesterday, T-Mobile is expanding faster HSPA+ 3G wireless broadband service into additional markets. However, in their announcement they took a few creative liberties — referring to the fact their service delivers “4G speeds” — despite really only being a 3G service. AT&T, who is also deploying HSPA+ before migrating to LTE, apparently [...]
Users in our AT&T U-Verse forum note — and AT&T confirms — that the company has suffered from a national U-Verse voice outage for much of the day so far. AT&T isn’t being specific about what’s wrong outside of saying they’re having an “equipment problem” and they’re working hard to fix it. AT&T recently had [...]
Tipsters confirm to Engadget that the next iPhone, widely expected to be unveiled on June 7, will feature two-way video chat. Actors are apparently being cast for the upcoming marketing campaign, and insiders confirm the ads will feature a mother and daughter chatting using the new front-facing camera seen on leaked iPhone prototypes. Two questions [...]
Tipsters confirm to Engadget that the next iPhone, widely expected to be unveiled on June 7, will feature two-way video chat. Actors are apparently being cast for the upcoming marketing campaign, and insiders confirm the ads will feature a mother and daughter chatting using the new front-facing camera seen on leaked iPhone prototypes. Two questions [...]
As part of their quest to ease congestion on the NYC 3G network, AT&T has announced that they’ve launched free Wi-Fi service in New York City’s Times Square — if you’re an AT&T customer. According to AT&T, the test is “a pilot deployment to explore the use of Wi-Fi to provide an additional mobile broadband [...]
AT&T’s (NYSE: T) decision to sell off its Sterling Commerce unit to IBM (NYSE: IBM) for $1.4 billion is perhaps another realization that the old dot-com hype no longer has the same allure, at least for telcos that existed in the late 1990s. While the sale will bring in about $750 million gain when the [...]