Tag: AT&T
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AT&T Announces Internet Air, Its New 5G Home Internet
AT&T is venturing into wireless internet for the first time. The company is looking for a way to maintain its stake in rural and DSL markets without having to replace expensive and outdated copper wirelines in these areas. AT&T Internet Air offers download speeds from 40-140 Mbps, which is a lot faster compared to the…
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AT&T Internet Prices Are Going Up, But There is a New AutoPay Discount
AT&T has started to notify some customers that their DSL internet bill will be going up $10 a month starting July 16th, 2023. The good news is you can now save $5 a month off of your home internet if you autopay, but there is a catch. This comes from Cord Cutters News readers, who…
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AT&T Successfully Tests LTE Internet From Space
AST SpaceMobile completed the first-ever space-based call using an everyday smartphone last April after working hard to create the first space-based cellular broadband network. Today, the company announced further tests have been successful at providing download speeds over 10 Mbps with its BlueWalker 3 technology using 4G cellular communications, another history-making event. “This is an…
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AT&T’s Profits From DIRECTV Dropped By a Billion This Year As Cord Cutting Grows
This week AT&T’s CFO Pascal Desroches spoke at the Bank of America C-Suite Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Conference in London. During that talk, he opened up about how AT&T and how DIRECTV is doing. During the talk, when asked about a possible DIRECTV and Dish merger, he opened up about how well DIRECTV is doing…
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AT&T Comments On a DIRECTV & Dish Network Merger
Back in 2021, AT&T sold 30 percent of its economic stake in DIRECTV along with U-Verse and AT&T TV to TPG Capital to form a new DIRECTV. Since then, there have been talks and much speculation over DIRECTV merging with Dish Network. There have been several attempts to merge DIRECTV and Dish Network in recent…
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DISH Network, AT&T, And Others Strongly Object to SpaceX & T-Mobile Partnership
Since April, SpaceX and T-Mobile have been causing waves over satellite spectrum usage. The two companies originally announced a plan last August to work together to provide direct satellite to mobile coverage, much to the dismay of other internet providers. Notably, DISH Network and AT&T have been vocal about their disdain for this partnership, claiming…
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AT&T Wants to Invest $42.5B to Expand Fiber-Optic Reach
AT&T released a bold plan to invest $42.5 billion to expand its fiber-optic cable network to deliver faster internet speeds to all customers, including those without broadband.
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AT&T is Cutting Costs As It Tries to Save $6 Billion
AT&T recently announced it will be closing hundreds of offices in an attempt to cut $6 billion in operational costs and increase growth.
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AT&T Wants to Block SpaceX’s Starlink & T-Mobile Satellite Phone Service
AT&T filed a request with the FCC to reject the recently approved proposal between SpaceX and T-Mobile claiming this plan could cause interference with its terrestrial wireless services.
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AT&T Prepares to Offer a Smartphone Service From Satellites
AT&T and AST SpaceMobile are forming a new deal to bring satellite-based internet to its customers’ smartphones.