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When AT&T announced its plan to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, the resulting backlash was pretty much expected. Other carriers, like Sprint, became incredibly vocal in their opposition to the merger, insisting that the result would create a duopoly in the wireless market in the U.S. Customers were confused and upset, but…
AT&T is set to launch a 4G LTE network this summer, about half a year after Verizon launched their 4G LTE network. While we don’t know what sort of speeds AT&T plans to offer, we do know that they’re going to have to surpass the 15 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speeds that most…
While Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint have its high-end HTC handsets either available, or on their way soon, we’ve been wondering what AT&T will bring to the table from the popular handset-maker. The second largest US carrier may have the Atrix 4G, and the Infuse 4G ready to do battle with others, but it looks like…
With heavy hitters like AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, the Isis mobile payment initiative had the potential to bring mobile payments to the masses while also creating a strong competitor to Visa and MasterCard. The Isis venture shifted strategy to include the payment giants recently and AT&T indicated that federal regulations had a lot to do…
It seems like only yesterday that AT&T Android customers were outraged that they were limited to apps available only in the Android Market, or straight from AT&T. If a new company introduced an app available straight from its site, or even apps available exclusively from stores like Amazon, users were basically out of luck. The…
We caught our first glimpse of the Samsung Infuse 4G with Android back at CES, but we were limited to looking-but-no-touching status. A little over a week ago, we finally got our hands on the device in NYC, and we came away relatively impressed. The device has a large and vivid 4.5-inch touchscreen, and it’s…
After a decent amount of pre-launch buzz, the white HP Veer is now sale at AT&T for $99.99 with a two-year contract. The thing is adorably tiny, with a mere 2.6-inch 320 x 240 display, while still packing a resp[ectable 5 megapixel camera, 8 GB of internal storage, 800 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM,…
The idiot savants more commonly referred to as branding people that work at each of America’s major wireless operators like to invent seemingly cool and highly creative names for products that otherwise get called something boring like “Nokia 6210” in Europe and Asia. Samsung’s original Galaxy S fell victim to these overpaid derelicts when it…
AT&T would give T-Mobile $6 billion in cash, assets and services if its proposed acquisition doesn’t go through. Yesterday we reported on a U.S. Senate hearing and it seemed like legislators were still unconvinced of the upsides of the deal. AT&T was even asked why it couldn’t just spend the $39 billion it planned to…
With all the AT&T and T-Mobile hullabaloo, it’s easy to forget that the former is still planning on launching its LTE network this year. More specifically, the carrier plans on launching its 4G LTE network this summer – you know, the real 4G and none of this we-want-to-pretend-HSPA-plus-is-4G stuff. Hopefully we AT&T customers will start…