Medical, Home Alarm Industries Warn Of Major Outages As AT&T Shuts Down 3G Network

It was only 2009 that AT&T heralded its cutting edge 3G network as it unveiled the launch of the iPhone (which subsequently crashed AT&T's cutting edge 3G network). Fast forward a little more than a decade and AT&T is...

Fresh Off Its Merger Failure(s), AT&T Gets Back To Promising Big Fiber Investments That May Or May Not Happen

We've noted for years how AT&T has this pattern in which they'll promise a massive wave of new fiber investment and jobs if they get "x" (X=merger approvals, deregulation, tax breaks, a bunch of new subsidies, whatever)...

OAN Throws A Hissy Fit After Being Axed By AT&T, DirecTV

Last week, we noted how AT&T-owned DirecTV had decided to axe OAN, the conspiracy and fantasy channel, from its cable lineup. The decision came just three months or so after a blockbuster report showed that AT&T not only helped fund and set up...

AT&T Gets “Favorable” IRS Ruling on Discovery-WarnerMedia Merger

The transactions in the so-called Reverse Morris Trust deal are "expected to be tax-free to stockholders of the company for U.S. federal income tax purposes."

AT&T Exits The Ad Business As Merger Ambitions Continue To Unravel

We've noted for years how U.S. telecom giants aren't particularly competent when it comes to wandering outside of their core competencies (building and running networks, lobbying the government to hamstring competitors). As government...

GOP Claim That Biden FCC Nom Gigi Sohn Wants To 'Censor Conservatives' Is AT&T & Rupert Murdoch Backed Gibberish

We'd already noted how telecom and media giants are hard at work trying to scuttle the nomination of consumer advocate Gigi Sohn to the FCC. Sohn is not only a genuine reformer, she's broadly popular on both sides of the aisle in telecom and...

AT&T CEO Calls Congressional Letter Opposing Discovery-WarnerMedia Merger “Unfounded”

Thirty members of Congress expressed concerns over possible violations of antitrust laws with the proposed transaction.

Jeff Bewkes Blames AT&T Incompetence For Bungled Time Warner, HBO Mergers

We've noted more than a few times how the AT&T Time Warner and DirecTV mergers were a monumental, historical disaster. AT&T spent $200 billion to acquire both companies thinking it would dominate the video and internet ad space...

‘OAN Would Not and Could Not Exist Without AT&T’s Blessing’

"The spark of inspiration for OAN [One America News] and its right-wing bent came from a meeting with AT&T executives."

AT&T Set Up And Paid For OAN Propaganda Network; Yet Everyone Wants To Scream About Facebook

We've noted for a while there's a weird myopia occurring in internet policy. As in, "big tech" (namely Facebook, Google, and Amazon) get a relentless amount of Congressional and policy wonk attention for their various, and...

AT&T Quickly Ditches Pledge Not To Fund Congressional Insurrectionists

Much like the company's dedication to women, AT&T's dedication to not funding people eager to overthrow democracy appears to be somewhere between inconsistent and nonexistent. Shortly after January 6 a number of companies, including...

Man who unlocked nearly 2 million AT&T phones gets 12 years in prison

Muhammad Fahd pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges

AT&T Hopes You'll Ignore It Routinely Finances Terrible Politicians Doing Terrible Things

After the idiotic and dangerous events of January 6, you might recall how corporations like AT&T and Comcast proclaimed they'd paused donations to any politicians behind the clumsy, violent attempt to, you know, dismantle functioning...

AT&T Whines About Spectrum Hoarding Now That T-Mobile Is Doing It

Economists predicted the T-Mobile merger would result in a lot of layoffs, something that's been proven true so far. Those same economists also predicted that the merger will also inevitably result in higher prices for consumers, though...

AT&T's 911, Cellular Networks Face Plant In Wake Of Hurricane Ida

After Hurricane Katrina, in 2008 the FCC passed rules mandating that cellular towers be upgraded to include battery backups or generators capable of delivering at least 8 hours of backup power, basically the bare minimum for usefulness. But the US...

California's 'Open Access' Fiber Broadband Plan Is Making Telecom Giants Like AT&T Nervous

Back in 2009, the FCC funded a Harvard study that concluded (pdf) that open access broadband networks (letting multiple ISPs come in and compete over a central, core network) resulted in lower broadband prices and better service in numerous...

AT&T TV will officially become DirecTV Stream next week

The change will officially happen August 26th.

AT&T CFO Wants A Cookie For Screwing Up The Time Warner, DirecTV Mergers

We've noted more than a few times how the AT&T Time Warner and DirecTV mergers were a monumental, historical disaster. AT&T spent $200 billion to acquire both companies thinking it would dominate the video and internet ad space...

US Press Softsells The Real Scope Of AT&T's Merger Incompetence, Ensuring It Will Happen Again

Under former CEO Randall Stephenson, AT&T spent nearly $200 billion on mergers with DirecTV and Time Warner, hoping this would secure its ability to dominate the pay TV space through brute force. But the exact opposite happened. Saddled with...

AT&T Gets Loyal Lawmakers To Push A Broadband Tax For 'Big Tech'

Hoping to capitalize on legitimate animosity against "big tech," AT&T lobbyists and policy makers have been busy recirculating a fifteen-year-old talking point. Namely, that big tech companies should throw billions of dollars at big...