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You knew it was going to happen. From the first day people started complaining about the iPhone 4 and the poor reception, you just knew a lawsuit was imminent — and now it’s here.
New York City, one of the toughest areas in the U.S. to get decent 3G and voice service on AT&T, has been upgraded.
AT&T screwing its wireless customers again
Okay, we all know that AT&T’s wireless service is not very good in many areas of the U.S., so they have come up with a way for customers to improve that. They will sell you a Micro-Cell for $150, which basically fills in coverage gaps of its service. However, the Micro-Cell uses your broadband connection, [...]
Apple on Wednesday said it had more than 600,000 iPhone 4 pre-orders yesterday as customers shutdown AT&T’s ordering systems.
Users swarmed AT&T servers on Tuesday as the company began accepting preorders for Apple’s new iPhone 4.
Should AT&T offer rollover data?
AT&T changed its data plans this week offering 200MB and 2GB plans instead of the unlimited plans many in the U.S. have become accustomed to using. For me, the change doesn’t really mean much because I don’t go over the smaller limit most months anyway. Joe Wilcox gives us five reasons why AT&T made the [...]
AT&T on Wednesday introduced new data plans to replace current iPhone unlimited data plans. The company also introduced the long-awaited tethering option for iPhone users.
AT&T not worried about a possible Verizon iPhone
The talk of a Verizon iPhone started as soon as the device was first released. That was three versions ago and AT&T is still the exclusive carrier in the U.S. However, if that did change, some people think that hordes of customers would leave AT&T and join Verizon. AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega isn’t [...]
Report: AT&T drops three times as many calls as competition
ChangeWave research issued a report on Wednesday that said AT&T has the highest percentage of drop calls of any U.S. carrier at 4.5 percent. T-Mobile had 2.8 percent, Sprint had 2.5 percent and the company many people want to see Apple partner with, Verizon, had 1.5 percent. “AT&T was clearly the worst in the March [...]
AT&T on Tuesday released AT&T Connect Mobile, an app that allows users to attend audio, web meetings on their iPhone.
AT&T investing $1 billion in its infrastructure
I can’t even imagine the scope of what it takes to upgrade a network like AT&T’s, but for some customers, it’ll be too little, too late. Especially if rumors of a Verizon iPhone hold true for later this year. I talked to some people in New York that refused to even try an iPhone because [...]
AT&T’s network holds up at SXSW
AT&T said it was prepared for SXSW this year and by all accounts, the network is holding up. The problem is that they didn’t really fixed the underlying problem. AT&T put in mobile cell towers to handle the extra bandwidth consumed at the show, but the network is still broken. That’s what needs to be [...]
AT&T’s CEO gets 35% pay hike, makes $20.3 million
It’s a good news, bad news story for AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson when looking at his 2009 pay package. The bulk of Stephenson’s pay was in the form of stock awards, which were valued at 12.1 million, down 8 percent over the 2008. (In case you didn’t know, that folks, was the bad news). The [...]
AT&T says attendees of this year’s SXSW will have a much better experience using its wireless network than they did last year.
Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) got AT&T’s attention this week and they’re not impressed, according to a story on MacRumors.
Despite being berated by its users for poor network coverage, AT&T on Friday was named “Best Mobile Phone Coverage in the World” by Business Traveler Magazine.
Apple is well known for its iconic advertisements, but its wireless partner AT&T is taking some brutal hits from competitor, Verizon. AT&T said it is setting the record straight.
AT&T announced Tuesday that it has “taken the steps necessary so that Apple can enable VoIP applications on iPhone to run on AT&T’s wireless network.” This means that iPhone users in the U.S. will now be able to use VoIP apps when they’re connected to AT&T’s 3G network, rather than just Wi-Fi.
As promised, AT&T on Friday activated Multimedia Messaging (MMS) for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.
Don’t get your hopes up for an iPhone tethering announcement from AT&T anytime soon.
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