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AT&T activates 7.6 million iPhones, 80.8% of all smartphone activations
Apple’s not the only company with record breaking iPhone news this week. AT&T earlier today reported their earnings for the December quarter and noted that they actiavted 7.6 million iPhone 4S devices during that period, a figure significantly higher than the 4.2 million iPhone activations Verizon reported recently. The 7.6 million iPhone activations represents an [...]
Continue reading...AT&T has top iPhone data speeds in the US
Monday, November 21, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: People seem to have a love-hate relationship with AT&T. On one hand, people love to bitch and moan about the crappy reception they have with Ma Bell, yet there was curiously no exodus of subscribers when the iPhone came to Verizon and subsequently Sprint. I suppose part of the reason folks are, [...]
Continue reading...Price of iPhone 3GS on AT&T curiously raised from free to $0.99
Monday, November 21, 2011
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By John Hiesler: Despite being over two years old, the iPhone 3GS was the second most popular smartphone during the third quarter of 2011. And now with the release of the iPhone 4S, the already-popular iPhone 3GS has been positioned to become even more popular with Apple making the device free with a 2-year contract [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4 and 3GS are still more popular than new Android smartphones
Monday, November 14, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Even in a market flooded with Android devices, the popularity and success of the iPhone continues to flourish. During the third quarter of 2011, even as many were awaiting the release of the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS remained the top selling smartphones on the market according to data [...]
Continue reading...AT&T also has stellar iPhone 4S launch
Friday, October 14, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Sprint wasn’t the only US-based carrier to experience stellar iPhone 4S sales today. AT&T issued the following statement earlier today. As of 4:30 pm ET today, AT&T had already activated a record number of iPhones on our network – and is on-track to double our previous record for activations on a single [...]
Continue reading...AT&T and Apple working to put ’4G’ icon in iPhone 4S status bar
Sunday, October 9, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: This is my Next has some interesting news for us. It turns out that AT&T confirmed to them that they’re working with Apple to put an 4G indicator icon on the iPhone 4S status bar. Even though AT&T’s current HSPA+ network isn’t technically 4G, the company has been branding it as such [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4S already the most successful iPhone launch ever, says AT&T
Saturday, October 8, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: After being on pre-order for less than 24 hours, the iPhone 4S is already on its way to being the most successful iPhone launch ever. AT&T announced yesterday that demand for Apple’s newest smartphone has been overwhelming, with the company having already processed over 200,000 preorders in the first 12 hours alone. [...]
Continue reading...AT&T begins sending out throttling warnings to data-heavy iPhone users
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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By David Goldman: Back in late July, AT&T announced its intention to throttle the bandwidth speeds of users who reside in the top 5% of data consumed amongst smartphone subscribers. These top 5% of data users, AT&T articulated, often use upwards of 12x as much data as the average smartphone user. Starting October 1, smartphone customers [...]
Continue reading...AT&T to increase mobile insurance rate for the iPhone starting on October 4
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: A few months back, 9to5Mac got their hands on an internal AT&T memo indicating that the insurance rate for the iPhone would increase from $4.99 to 6.99 beginning on October 4th. The original report dates back to mid-July, and given that October 4th has emerged as the date of Apple’s next-gen iPhone [...]
Continue reading...AT&T’s Randall Stephenson not concerned about the iPhone on Sprint or Verizon
Friday, September 23, 2011
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From day one, AT&T’s network has been in the crosshairs of iPhone users who have complained about everything from extremely slow data speeds to absolutely unacceptable reception. But through it all, the allure of the iPhone proved greater than the shortcomings of AT&T’s network. As a result, many people reasonably assumed that when Verizon started [...]
Continue reading...Latest AT&T ad for the iPhone touts ability to “talk and surf at the same time”
Sunday, September 11, 2011
With Sprint all set to start carrying the iPhone this October, consumers in the US will soon have more options than ever before as to which carrier to choose. Consequently, Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T will inevitably tout their strengths in an effort to attract new subscribers and keep current customers from defecting. Take AT&T, for [...]
Continue reading...US seeks to block AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition; claims it will stifle competition and innovation
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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AT&T this past May decided to use some of their iPhone profits and acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. Should the deal approve regulative scrutiny, AT&T would leapfrog Verizon and become the nation’s largest wireless carrier. But that regulatory approval hit a roadblock today as the U.S government filed suit today to block [...]
Continue reading...AT&T announces 3.6 million iPhone activations during Q2 of 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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It’s earnings season, and following Apple’s stellar quarterly report from earlier this week comes new financial data from AT&T for our consumption. During Ma Bell’s second fiscal quarter of 2011, the company reported revenue of $31.5 billion, an uptick of 2.2% year over year. iPhone wise, the company activated 3.6 million devices with more than [...]
Continue reading...AT&T to launch LTE in 5 US cities this Summer
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
AT&T today issued a press release announcing the impending launch of its LTE network in five markets this Summer – Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, and San Antonio. Following that, AT&T has plans to add on another 10 cities during the second half of 2011 with the ultimate goal to provide LTE coverage to 70 million [...]
Continue reading...AT&T releases Q1 2011 earnings; iPhone customers not fleeing to Verizon
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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AT&T earlier today released its earnings from the first quarter of 2011, announcing EPS of $0.57 compared to $0.58 during the same quarter a year-ago. Q1 of 2011 also marks the first time AT&T has had to compete with another carrier carrying the iPhone, so some of AT&T’s data is particularly of interest. AT&T notes [...]
Continue reading...Verizon iPhone owners experience fewer dropped calls; slightly more satisfied as well
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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A new ChangeWave survey released today shows that iPhone 4 customers on AT&T are more than twice as likely to experience a dropped call than iPhone 4 customers on Verizon. Over the course of 90 days, 4.8% of AT&T iPhone 4 owners reported experiencing a dropped call compared to 1.8% of Verizon owners. “Verizon is [...]
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
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