AT&T is a telecommunications corporation and is the second largest provider of mobile telephone and the largest provider of fixed telephone in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. As of May 2014, AT&T is the 23rd-largest company in the world as measured by a composite of revenues, profits, assets and market value, and the 16th-largest non-oil company. As of 2014, it is also the 20th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with over 116.6 million mobile customers.
The FTC’s decision to sue AT&T over how it treats customers who are locked into 2010 unlimited data plans is a popular one, but also peculiar. Read more »
A report out Tuesday on the cost of interconnection fights shows that the problem is the business deals, not technology, and that the consumer pays the price. Read more »
As the Verizon “permacookie” debacle shows, some carriers are more interested in inserting themselves into the lucrative mobile advertising world than they are in their customers’ privacy. With new developments around… Read more »
T-Mobile keeps growing, adding new prepaid and postpaid customers and activating new smartphone and even internet-of-things connections. The only area where its lagging far behind the competition is in tablets. Read more »
Companies are encouraging mobile customers to visit their websites by paying the data fees to AT&T and other carriers. Is this a bad thing? Read more »
I upgraded from a Kindle Paperwhite to a Voyage this week. Was it worth it? Google’s new Inbox app takes some getting used to but shows potential, while the Apple SIM… Read more »
As sports viewing increasingly goes over-the-top and mobile, taking the traditional broadcast audience with it, big-ticket, broadcast-only rights deals are going to grow increasingly problematic for the broadcasters. Read more »
This is why we can’t have nice things. The Apple SIM that comes with the new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 was supposed to let customers switch between service… Read more »
AT&T adds 2 million new connections in Q3, but it’s most impressive growth came in the connected car as GM and Audi rolled out their 4G vehicles this year. Read more »