AT&T has begun offering users signed up for their DataPro plan an extra 2GB of tethering data on the house. As it stands now, AT&T’s DataPro plan remains priced at $25/month while 4GB of tethering (as opposed to 2) is now available for $20 more. via 9to5Mac
Continue reading...Monday, February 14, 2011
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With the Verizon now available on iPhone, iPhone owners in the US will, for the first time, be able to savor the sweet and delicious taste of competition. Up until recently, AT&T was able to do as it pleased with its millions of iPhone customers, but with Verizon now entering the race, both carriers will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 14, 2011
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Well this is pretty cool. The advertising firm Chitika has come up with a live tracker that gives the average joe (yes, that’s you!) the ability to track what percentage of iPhones in use are running on AT&T’s network compared to Verizon’s. How does it manage to do that? Why, through its advertising network of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 1, 2011
In just a few days, the iPhone will arrive, for the first time, on Verizon and will mark an end to a three and a half year exclusivity agreement between Apple and AT&T. During that time, AT&T experienced a number of well-publicized growing pains as the company struggled to keep up with the voracious appetite [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 27, 2011
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The iPhone landing on Verizon is great news not only for Verizon customers, but also for AT&T customers who will for the first time reap the benefits that inevitably accompany increased competition. Back in June, AT&T did away with their unlimited data plan and its place implemented a tiered plan. Under the new plan, users [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 25, 2010
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AT&T last week reported a record third quarter with earnings of $2.08 a share on revenue of $31.58 billion. During the same quarter a year-ago, AT&T posted earnings of $0.54 a share. The upshot in earnings was no doubt bolstered in part by a record number of iPhone activations – 5.2 million in total. AT&T’s previous [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 23, 2010
For as much as the iPhone has done to help Apple, it’s done an equally stellar job helping AT&T attract millions of new subscribers – which is no small feat in the hyper-competitive world of cell carriers. But the iPhone won’t be an AT&T exclusive forever, and indeed, a number of rumors from increasingly reliable [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 14, 2010
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Apple today announced that the iPad, starting on October 28, will be available at both AT&T and Verizon retail stores, further expanding the availability and visibility of Apple’s successful tablet. AT&T and Apple today announced that all three iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available at more than 2,200 AT&T Stores starting Thursday, October [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 16, 2010
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FierceWireless reports: AT&T Mobility will launch commercial LTE service by mid-2011, and will cover between 70 million and 75 million POPs by the end of next year, a top executive said. Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2010 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, AT&T Operations CEO John Stankey said the company is actively [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 26, 2010
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Macworld reports: Users are piling on to AT&T’s public Wi-Fi hotspots, racking up more than 68 million connections in the second quarter, AT&T says. The tally of 68.1 million connections, through phones and other devices, was more than four times the number just a year earlier, when AT&T logged 15 million connections in the second [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 23, 2010
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That’s the key finding in a survey released this week by Yankee Group, which reports that 73% of iPhone users are very satisfied with AT&T’s service. That rating compares favorably to how non-iPhone smartphone users feel about AT&T, and even to how non-iPhone users feel about other wireless providers. via CNN
Continue reading...Thursday, July 22, 2010
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AT&T announced this morning that they activated 3.2 million iPhones during the last quarter, a new company record. Approximately 27% of these activations were for customers brand new to AT&T. By way of comparison, it wasn’t uncommon in previous quarters to see up to 40% of iPhone activations attributable to new AT&T customers. Either way, [...]
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