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By now, it should be common knowledge that it’s not a good idea to text and drive, yet that unfortunately hasn’t completely stopped the practice that results in nearly 100,000 accidents a year. In 2009, AT&T began raising awareness about the dangers of texting and driving with the It Can Wait campaign, and has since…
AT&T is trying to end the year strong by expanding its 4G LTE network to as many locations as possible. The Death Star lit up four new areas with some high-speed goodness. These places are Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Nashua, N.H., Grand Rapids, Mich and Auburn-Opelika, Ala. All four can be added to the long and impressive list of locales the…
Christmas is fast approaching and the deals are beginning to get more eye-catching. When I was out shopping looking for that elusive Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtle (Donatello) for my son, I stumbled across a crazy deal at Target. The huge retailer is selling the wildly popular Samsung Galaxy S III for just $99 on both…
AT&T is selling smartphones at a record pace this holiday shopping season. According to CEO Ralph de la Vega, the carrier has already sold 6.4 million handsets in the first two months of the quarter. This would give AT&T its second best quarter of all time and would increase its yearly sales to a whopping…
AT&T is adopting a new strategy when it comes to customer billing. Rather than let customers figure out on their own the differences between voice charges, data charges and one-time charges, the carrier is sending out video bills that explain charges line-by-line. The video is personalized to each account and provides and audio and video…
Good news for folks with AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S III as you should be able to get your Jelly Bean fix as we speak. It’s not an over-the-air affair and you’ll rather have to connect your beloved smartphone to a computer and fire-up the ever-annoying Samsung Kies software. However, it’s well worth…
If you live in Albuquerque, N.M., Reading, Penn., and Salt Lake City we have great news for you. AT&T this morning announced that it has flipped the LTE switch in those areas I’ve named. The second largest wireless provider in the United States is moving at a rapid pace with deploying its 4G LTE across the nation.…
Consumer Reports released its annual assessment of US wireless carriers and placed AT&T in last place for the third year in a row. In its latest report, the consumer product review company ranked AT&T at the bottom of the heap among the top seven wireless carriers in the US. The only bright spot for AT&T…
While I’ve personally never owned a rugged phone in the my life, one feature that I always seemed to go hand in hand with these devices is push-to-talk? Why? Not not a clue, but that’s exactly what AT&T and Samsung have done with the new Rugby III. The Rugby III is Samsung’s 5th generation rugged handset and…
If you want the hot-new iPhone 5, have nothing against AT&T but don’t want to pay 200 bucks for the benefit – we have a piece of good news for you. The “original iPhone carrier” is now offering refurb iPhone 5 units for less, $100 less to be more precise. So instead of paying $199.99…