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Seven sates joined a DOJ lawsuit aiming to block T-Mobile and AT&T

Published on: 29th September, 2011

There is increased resistance to AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile after seven states recently joined the DOJ lawsuit intending to lock the proposed deal. Washington, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and California all agreed that such a merger would reduce competition. Officials from the Department of Justice were very pleased to receive this kind of [...]

FCC official says AT&T and T-Mobile merger has to significantly change

Published on: 28th March, 2011

As an anonymous official from FCC recently declared, the proposed AT&T buyout of T-Mobile should be drastically changed in order to be eventually approved. He mentioned that the deal had not yet been formally investigated but he was sure that FCC’s president Julius Genachowski would require some conditions or would simply ban the deal. The [...]

Verizon not interested to counter AT&T by acquiring Sprint

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Wireless chief of Verizon Dan Mead minimized speculation that his carrier would intend to buy Sprint as a direct response to the acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T. he claimed that his company would rather try to be profitable first and only after that would adopt strategies to get more market share. He also mentioned to [...]

T-Mobile would not offer the iPhone after the deal with AT&T

Published on: 24th March, 2011

T-Mobile quickly denied any immediate plans to offer the iPhone after the takeover by AT&T. the company stressed that it was not expecting the deal to take effect for a year at least and consequently no Apple deal was imminent. The announcement left room for a deal related to the iPhone, but for the moment [...]

AT&T buying T-Mobile USA would put Android at risk

Published on: 22nd March, 2011

As AT&T said, it would buy T-Mobile USA and would pay $39 billion for the transaction. A mutual combination of stock and cash will create, by far, the largest carrier on the US territory, with more than 130 million customers. The deal will allow T-Mobile to expand into LTE-based 4G, while it is now using [...]

Amazon Kindle 3G to be sold in AT&T stores

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

Amazon has recently launched a third-generation Kindle to be sold in AT&T’s retail shops, stepping up its competitors in e-readers. Its Kindle is the first e-reader dedicated to the carrier and uses AT&T’s network and roaming to allow Kindle book downloads. The carrier is offering the e-reader at a subsidized price of $189 and will [...]

AT&T scales back cellphone distribution to third-party vendors

Published on: 27th February, 2011

AT&T is said to scale back distribution of cellphones through third-party retailers because some of them had announced their plans of dropping the product lineup of the carrier from their inventories. For instance, Andy Zeinfeld, Wirefly CEO, estimates that AT&T offerings would disappear form the website of his company by March. LetsTalk is supposed to [...]

iPhone tests run faster on AT&T than Verizon and even faster on Israel’s Pelephone

Published on: 23rd February, 2011

Doug Suttles, founder of Ookla and creator of Speedtest.net, has run tests showing that the AT&T iPhone holds the 3G performance lead in the United States and is trailing well behind much of the world. He compared AT&T’s use of 7.2Mbps HSPA versus the 3.1Mbps EVDO Revision A of Verizon and observed that the original [...]

AT&T giving bonuses of 1,000 minutes to iPhone subscribers

Published on: 20th February, 2011

AT&T’s spokesman confirmed that the company is giving 1,000 rollover voice minutes to iPhone subscribers. The offer is valid only through a notification, to which customers are required to say “yes” until the 31st of March. Those subscribers who have no received the notification still can send their “yes” message to 11113020 and get a [...]

Apple and AT&T want to drop the price of the iPhone 3GS to $49

Published on: 11th January, 2011

The price of the iPhone 3GS has dropped to $49 starting a few days ago, as AT&T announced. This option applies to the retail and online stores of the carrier for upgrade customers and for new ones as well. According to AT&T, Apple will offer the cheaper price tag. The normal price of the iPhone [...]

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