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Sunday was buzzing with the news of AT&T and Deutsche Telekom reaching an agreement for the acquisition of T-Mobile USA, and that left a lot of us curious and very opinionated. Even other carriers decided to comment on the move immediately after its announcement. But it also left many of us with burning questions. Of…
AT&T made headlines today by announcing its acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom – a deal worth $39 billion. It was surprising because, for years, we’d all been hearing talk about Sprint either merging with or acquiring T-Mobile. Instead, AT&T picked up the nation’s fourth largest carrier along with a ton of spectrum and…
We were all thrown for a loop when AT&T said it will buy T-Mobile for $39 billion and we knew it wouldn’t be too long before we heard Sprint gives its two cents about the deal Not surprisingly, the third-largest carrier isn’t happy with the deal and it is calling on regulators to take a…
Yeah, we were all hit with a bombshell earlier when we heard that AT&T will be paying $39 billion to try and acquire T-Mobile (pending regulatory approval) because the rumors had been floating around that Sprint would be hooking up with the Magenta network to form a third, super carrier in the United States. What…
Huge news, folks. With all the news that Sprint would acquire T-Mobile, this one took us by surprise. Instead, it’s AT&T that entered into a “definitive agreement” with Deutsche Telekom to acquire T-Mobile USA. What does this all mean? Well, for one, AT&T is going to surge right past Verizon, but AT&T will also be…
AT&T is reportedly cracking down on unoffcial tethering apps used by iPhone owners who have jailbroken their handsets. According to the report, customers using MyWi and similar applications (and even who are not) are being notified they need to subscribe to a tethering plan if they want use the tethering feature. If customers do not…
AT&T brought a bunch of COWs to Austin, TX. to keep their network up and running at the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) 2011 festival – and no, they’re not milk-making cows, they’re Cell On Wheels mobile cell towers that help boost network capacity and performance when existing cell sites are overwhelmed. So, naturally, we…
AT&T’s lack of adequate coverage has been the focus of a myriad of jokes since the iPhone 4 debuted and the carrier’s network struggled from the load. The wireless carrier has spent the ensuing years trying to beef up its network, especially in population dense urban areas. Just last year, AT&T spent millions to upgrade…
Apple’s iPhone has been heralded by many as being the best smartphone to ever hit the market. It was also ridiculed by nearly everyone because it ran on AT&T, who has been having trouble keeping up with the traffic demands that millions of Americans are causing due to all the cute cat videos they’re watching…
With all four of America’s largest operators cranking the 4G marketing machine to 11, you’ve got to wonder who can actually deliver the goods and who is just throwing money away on ads that could be better spent on actually, you know, delivering 4G? The folks at PC World, in conjunction with Novarum, have performed…