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On March 10th, 2026 with 12 comments
AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company says it will also...
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On December 3rd, 2025 with 23 comments
AT&T and Verizon are blocking T-Mobile's new "Switching Made Easy" tool that scans their customer accounts to recommend comparable plans. AT&T is also...
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On August 26th, 2025 with 21 comments
AT&T said Tuesday it would buy wireless licenses from EchoStar for $23 billion, after a years-long saga over what the latter would do with its vast...
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On April 4th, 2025 with 24 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader CyberSlugGump shares a support article from AT&T, writing: On June 17th, AT&T will stop supporting email-to-text messages....
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On November 7th, 2024 with 2 comments
U.S. Cellular has agreed to sell $1.02 billion worth of spectrum licenses to AT&T as part of its strategy to monetize its spectrum assets that were not...
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On October 21st, 2024 with 104 comments
An anonymous reader writes: T-Mobile and AT&T say US regulators should drop a plan to require unlocking of phones within 60 days of activation, claiming...
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On September 29th, 2024 with 47 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
Look at the top right corner of your phone. You might see an icon with "5G" and another with...
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On February 22nd, 2024 with 55 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN Business: AT&T's network went down for many of its customers across the United States Thursday morning,...
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On February 6th, 2024 with 115 comments
AT&T is applying to end its obligation to service landlines in certain areas of California. "The application is pending under the California Public...
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On June 18th, 2022 with 21 comments
The Associated Press reports:
Federal regulators say Verizon and AT&T will delay part of their 5G rollout near airports to give airlines more time to...
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On January 5th, 2022 with 19 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Aviation Administration tentatively agreed not to seek any more 5G delays from AT&T and...
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On February 12th, 2021 with 64 comments
Jon Brodkin, writing for ArsTechnica: When 90-year-old Aaron Epstein bought a Wall Street Journal print ad to complain about his slow AT&T Internet...
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On February 4th, 2021 with 161 comments
A man who has been an AT&T customer since 1960 has a message for CEO John Stankey about the company's failure to upgrade DSL areas to modern Internet...
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On September 22nd, 2020 with 54 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T and Verizon are worried about T-Mobile's vast spectrum holdings and have asked the Federal...
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On September 8th, 2020 with 47 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T smartphone users who see their network indicators switch from "4G" to "5G" shouldn't...
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On August 6th, 2020 with 35 comments
In T-Mobile's Q2 2020 earnings call today, the company says that it has surpassed AT&T in total branded customer count to become the second biggest carrier...
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On May 21st, 2020 with 39 comments
AT&T says it will stop advertising its wireless network as "5G Evolution" after a division of the Better Business Bureau determined that its language was...
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On April 17th, 2020 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T falsely reported to the Federal Communications Commission that it offers broadband in nearly...
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On October 25th, 2019 with 117 comments
All four major U.S. carriers -- AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint -- have each issued the same press release announcing that they are forming "a joint...
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On October 20th, 2019 with 70 comments
Though people can still leave voicemail messages, "Some AT&T customers say they have not had access to their voicemail since the beginning of October," one...
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On October 11th, 2019 with 40 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T and other mobile carriers are trying to hide detailed 5G maps from the public despite...
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On May 1st, 2019 with 47 comments
On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel demanded answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon on their...
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On March 30th, 2019 with 69 comments
Friday CNN reported on "what you can do right now to stop robocalls."
"Short of throwing your phone in the garbage, there's no way to avoid them altogether....
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On March 23rd, 2019 with 90 comments
"The fight against robocalls can even bring telecom rivals together," reports USA Today:
AT&T and Comcast said Wednesday that they can authenticate calls...
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On February 20th, 2019 with 85 comments
Next-generation 5G networks are very much in their infancy right now, but that's not stopping smartphone manufacturers from teasing new 5G phones. At Samsung's...
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On January 8th, 2019 with 54 comments
Verizon and T-Mobile are calling out AT&T for starting a shady marketing tactic that labeled its 4G network as a 5G network. "In an open letter, in which...
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On December 21st, 2018 with 81 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: AT&T customers will start to see a 5G logo appear in the corner of their smartphone next year -- not...
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On November 20th, 2018 with 107 comments
A new study from Finnish research firm Rewheel has found that U.S. wireless consumers pay some of the highest prices for mobile data in the developed world....
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On October 15th, 2018 with 54 comments
New submitter JustChapman writes: Local Dallas/Fort Worth WFAA is reporting a major outage of AT&T U-Verse fiber internet, due to a lightening strike at a...
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On June 19th, 2018 with 48 comments
According to documents filed Monday, T-Mobile and Sprint have formally asked the FCC to approve their proposed merger. Axios reports: In their filing, the...
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