AT&T

Carriers must reinvent to keep competitive edge We all focus on the details about growing our business, stomping on our competition and winning going forward. However, we don’t often stop, pull …

Carrier wants feds to limit spectrum auction bidding credit for designated entities WASHINGTON – Carrier AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to impose strict guidelines on the 2016 spectrum …

Hulu has exclusive rights to “Seinfeld”: What’s the deal with carriers aggressively moving into media and content delivery? In the continued convergence of telecom and media, carrier AT&T announced a deal …

Chip news from Altair, Broadcom and MediaTek AT&T gives LTE-only a boost Israel’s Altair Semiconductor said today that its FourGee-3800/6300 chipset has completed AT&T’s ADAPT chipset validation. Altair makes LTE-only …

Carriers need access to more fiber to comply with FCC’s net neutrality decision Following in chief competitor Verizon Communications’ footsteps, AT&T on May 10 announced an interconnection agreement that will …

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to kill petitions against its open Internet order was met with praise from supporters and silence from groups that challenged the reclassification of …

AT&T strikes out in Washington, signs interconnect agreement with Level 3 The Federal Communications Commission said it won’t reconsider the part of its net neutrality policy that classifies the Internet …

Wireless carriers have created heterogeneous networks to solve coverage and capacity problems in specific high-profile locations, but these solutions will be needed more broadly as demand for mobile data skyrockets. …

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

Grievance strike started Wednesday; some union members have returned to work. Nearly a month after contracts for some 17,000 AT&T employees expired on April 14, a threatened strike began to …

Verizon Wireless to offer monthly discounts for Lyft drivers, embed app in Android devices Verizon Wireless said it is partnering with ride-sharing service provider Lyft on a multiyear deal to …

Comcast, AT&T and Google all deploying fiber-to-the-home networks North Carolina’s Research Triangle is among the latest battlegrounds as network operators compete to offer ultra-high-speed, fiber-based Internet service to consumers. The …

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

AT&T plans to combine Nextel Mexico with Iusacell to form large Mexico operator AT&T completed its $1.875 billion acquisition of Nextel Mexico, bolstering its presence in the Mexican market. The …

AT&T, Verizon get litigious over towers The biggest wireless companies in the world are taking small towns and businesses to court on a seemingly increasing basis. It has all the makings …

AT&T will pay $6.9 million to the Federal Communications Commission for over-billing a program designed to help low-income households pay their phone bills. An audit of AT&T revealed the carrier inaccurately …

Latest MVNO entrant backed by former Cricket, Simple Mobile execs The domestic wireless market’s ultra-competitive environment is not preventing new entrants from trying to find their place. One of the …

Employee suing AT&T and brass for racial discrimination AT&T fired Aaron Slator, former president of content and ad sales, for allegedly sending a racist text message that casts African-Americans in …

Sprint offers service discount, free LG G Pad Sprint is looking to encourage the uptake of tablet devices, announcing a deep discount on tablet data plans connected with a smartphone …

T-Mobile US plans for 2015 show it’s not content to just be No. 3, looks at cable as partners T-Mobile US this week reported robust first-quarter results with customer growth …

Verizon SDN plans tap Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, Nokia Verizon Communications publicly announced its software-defined networking plans, stating partnerships with the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper Networks and Nokia …

T-Mobile US growth results down from last year, but still trumps rivals Unless Sprint pulls something out of its hat when it reports quarterly results next week, T-Mobile US can …

Last week was already overflowing with earnings news (we will cover AT&T and Verizon Communications earnings in great detail next week), when Bloomberg broke the story last Thursday of the …

Reps attend annual meeting for execs and shareholders As some 17,500 unionized employees continue into the second week of work under an expired contract, union reps pressed AT&T higher-ups to …