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.
As FTC’s crackdown on T-Mobile illustrates, SMS payment services are more trouble than their worth. With the exception of charitable giving, premium SMS should be outlawed. Read more »
Type an SMS message in English and receive a text back with its Spanish or Chinese translation. Muuzii came out of AT&T’s developer program, but it plans to expand to more… Read more »
Eden Rock’s self-optimizing network (SON) technology recognizes where the demand is highest and the coverage is most sketchy in the mobile network. It can then start growing and shrinking cells to… Read more »
John Legere and his executive team talk to Gigaom about mobile competition in the U.S. and why mobile data is no longer the rare commodity it used to be. Read more »
T-Mobile won’t charge you the data you consume when streaming Pandora, iTunes Radio, Spotify or any other internet music app. The carrier also plans to launch its own internet radio service… Read more »
AT&T has the exclusive for the Fire, and depending on deep Amazon goes with Ma Bell, it could be a while before we see it on other carrier networks. Read more »
It’s too early to condemn or praise Amazon’s Fire Phone but my first impression is one of missed opportunities for disruption combined with the handset being just another play to get… Read more »
Tail-f Systems specializes is one of the new breed of telecom companies virtualizing telephone and mobile networks in the cloud. It’s specialization is an obscure part of the network called the… Read more »