Tag: AT&T

  • AT&T Will Bring High-Speed Fiber Optic Internet Service to This Midwest City

    AT&T Will Bring High-Speed Fiber Optic Internet Service to This Midwest City

    AT&T will soon begin building its AT&T Fiber network in Sevastopol, Wisconsin, as part of a $7.4 million project to bring high-speed internet to more remote areas. Sevastopol and AT&T partnered for this fiber expansion project, which was approved in January. It aims to expand AT&T’s Fiber network to more than 2,000 local customers. The…

  • AT&T Wants to Shut Down Its Landline Phone Service

    AT&T Wants to Shut Down Its Landline Phone Service

    Do you still use an old-fashioned landline phone service? Its days may be numbered as AT&T and other providers are moving to shut it down and replace it with an Internet-based phone service. AT&T has asked the California Public Utilities Commission to shut down its traditional phone service. The telecom giant argues that maintaining copper…

  • AT&T Has a New Plan to Fight Spam and it Includes More Company Logos

    AT&T Has a New Plan to Fight Spam and it Includes More Company Logos

    AT&T is cracking down on spam calls by letting companies use their logos to ensure the calls are legitimate. The new display is powered by Neustar and prominently shows a company’s brand name and logo on the receiver’s phone. The TruContact Branded Call Display is an optional program companies can use to verify their information.…

  • AT&T 5G Home Internet Service Now Available in 59 Markets

    AT&T 5G Home Internet Service Now Available in 59 Markets

    AT&T’s 5G home internet service is now available in far more places. The company said in an updated post on Tuesday that the service, which it calls Internet Air, is available in 59 markets, including key ones like San Diego, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Indianapolis. The news marks an expansion of more than two dozen…

  • T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T Adds Nearly 840,000 5G Home Internet Customers as Cord Cutting 2.0 Surges

    T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T Adds Nearly 840,000 5G Home Internet Customers as Cord Cutting 2.0 Surges

    The three largest telecom companies in the nation, T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T, combined to add nearly 840,000 5G home internet subscribers in the fourth quarter, establishing the legitimacy of Cord Cutting 2.0 and posing a real threat to cable providers like Comcast and Spectrum. T-Mobile was the clear winner of the trio, which all reported…

  • Google Wants to Take On SpaceX and Starlink in Space

    Google Wants to Take On SpaceX and Starlink in Space

    Google is joining the space race. The tech giant has thrown its financial support behind Starlink competitor, AST SpaceMobile, to help the company with product development, testing, and implementation.  Google is the latest Big Tech player drawn into the area of delivering space-based internet and phone service. SpaceX’s Starlink is working with T-Mobile on tests…

  • AT&T Adds 67,000 5G Home Internet Customers, Offsetting Massive DSL Losses

    AT&T Adds 67,000 5G Home Internet Customers, Offsetting Massive DSL Losses

    AT&T’s 5G home internet service, called Internet Air, racked up 67,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter and helped mask the mass defection of DSL customers. The Dallas telecommunications giant reported fourth-quarter results that also saw the addition of 273,000 fiber customers. But its overall broadband growth was only 19,000, indicating that the company lost…

  • AT&T Invests $20 Million to Make Phone Calls From Space

    AT&T Invests $20 Million to Make Phone Calls From Space

    AT&T will invest $20 million with satellite-to-cellphone provider AST SpaceMobile to help erase connectivity gaps in coverage by offering service from space. The investment will come in the form of revenue commitment is part of a broader $155 million deal through which AT&T will also invest in AST SpaceMobile alongside Google and U.K.-based telecom giant…

  • AT&T Is Reportedly Improving Its 5G Home Internet Service With a New Modem

    AT&T Is Reportedly Improving Its 5G Home Internet Service With a New Modem

    AT&T is continuing its growth in the 5G home internet space and has a new modem in the works, according to The Mobile Report. The modem, model number BGW530-900, is made by Sagemcom, the same brand that built T-Mobile’s gateway lineup. This comes as AT&T has been a bit more reserved in its 5G home…

  • T-Mobile Crowned America’s Fastest Wireless Carrier Again

    T-Mobile Crowned America’s Fastest Wireless Carrier Again

    T-Mobile once again took the checkered flag as the fastest wireless carrier in America, according to Ookla. From a download speed perspective, it wasn’t close. T-Mobile posted a media download speed of 188.96 Mbps, more than double the 91.6 Mbps from Verizon and 90.8 Mbps from AT&T, according to Ookla’s report of performance in the…