New report explains how AT&T and Verizon profit from DSL internet customers twice
Living with slow home internet is a punishment that courts would likely rule cruel and unusual, assuming the victims ever get a consistent enough signal …
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AT&T is winning back cord-cutters with DirecTV Now, but that doesn’t mean cable is saved
As we’ve documented at great lengths in the past, the cord-cutting phenomenon is accelerating rapidly, and showing no sign of slowing down any time soon. …
The AT&T Time Warner merger will be back in court sooner than we expected
When Judge Richard Leon ruled in favor of AT&T’s merger with Time Warner last month, he explicitly warned the Department of Justice against seeking a …
Shockingly, AT&T’s CEO thinks the government’s merger appeal will fail
Brace yourself for this stunning turn of events, but AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson doesn’t think much of the Justice Department’s decision to appeal a ruling …
The Justice Department is appealing the AT&T Time Warner merger approval
The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s ruling approving the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, according to court documents filed Thursday. The Justice Department sued …
Apple’s 2018 iPhone X could be a big headache for mobile carriers
As excited as consumers might be for the next iPhone, mobile carriers might be in for a nasty surprise. As Barron’s notes, Apple might debut …
HBO chasing Netflix in its first year under AT&T will ‘feel like childbirth’
As a subscriber to both Netflix and HBO, and as a binge-watcher of many of their shows, I’d have a hard time choosing between the …
Top government lawyer blames judge, CNN, and AT&T’s army of lawyers for court loss
The Department of Justice was handed a rare defeat in court when it tried to contest the AT&T Time Warner merger. The judge approved the …
Report: Increased hidden fees are making AT&T $800 million in new profit
The gratuitous imposition of “administration fees” that have no resemblance to reality is one of the many things that make Americans hate their internet companies, …
AT&T wireless employees used shady tactics to drive streaming TV subscription sales
Thanks to AT&T’s successful merger with Time Warner, your favorite wireless company certainly isn’t just a wireless company any more. AT&T has fingers in more …
AT&T Watch is here: $15 for 30 channels, but no HBO
After teasing it heavily for the last few weeks, AT&T has finally taken the wraps off its new $15-a-month streaming service, AT&T Watch. For a …
Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint have stopped selling their customers’ location data
In today’s edition of “you probably didn’t know this was still a thing but be glad it stopped,” Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint have all confirmed …
There’s only one day left to get AT&T’s killer iPhone X deal
The iPhone 8 and iPhone X have been on the market for nearly nine months now, so we’ve seen dozens of deals from all the …
Here’s everything AT&T now owns, apart from your soul
Earlier this week, a judge decided the fate of the AT&T Time Warner deal, and the result was a big thumbs-up in the general direction …
T-Mobile is trolling AT&T with a $900 deal for switchers
For T-Mobile CEO John Legere, poking fun at Verizon and AT&T is seemingly part of his job description. Whether he’s picking up their disgruntled customers …
The Department of Justice may have screwed us all by losing the AT&T merger case
Yesterday, the Department of Justice suffered its first antitrust loss in court since 2004, paving the way for AT&T to merge with Time Warner and …
AT&T and Time Warner win legal battle, confirming the merger
It’s been years in the making, but the mammoth merger of AT&T and Time Warner Inc. is officially going to happen. Judge Richard Leon, a …
AT&T is hiking the price of its oldest and best unlimited data plan yet again
If you only joined the smartphone-wielding majority within the last five years, you could be forgiven for thinking that T-Mobile was the first company to …
AT&T in talks to settle old allegations about ‘deceptive’ unlimited plans
AT&T is in talks with the Federal Trade Commission to settle a 2014 complaint that the company offered “deceptive” unlimited data plans to consumers, according …
AT&T teases $15-a-month streaming service, but only if the Time Warner merger happens
While giving testimony as part of the court case where AT&T is attempting to prove it should be allowed to merge with Time Warner, AT&T …
T-Mobile’s claim that it has the ‘best unlimited network’ just got destroyed
T-Mobile has spent a whole boatload of its Un-Carrier money on claiming that it has the best network for unlimited. The tag line appears on …
AT&T is making streaming as complicated as cable
The writing is most decidedly on the wall for traditional cable packages. Existing subscribers are hemorrhaging by the month, young people aren’t signing up in …
DirecTV Now just added a free cloud DVR that’s better than any cable box
There are many, many things to dislike about traditional cable, but one of the most outdated is probably the DVR technology. At a time when …
Wow, I wonder why AT&T and Verizon aren’t worried about that mammoth Sprint-T-Mobile merger
T-Mobile and Sprint know that they face an uphill battle in persuading regulators that they should be allowed to merge. Most competition theory suggests that …
AT&T accidentally blocked Cloudflare’s privacy DNS service
Last month, internet performance company Cloudflare announced a “privacy-first” alternative to the domain-name servers that are normally controlled by your internet service provider. By changing …
Comcast is only increasing internet speeds for customers who also pay for cable
As we’ve documented ad nauseam before, cable companies are struggling with falling profits due largely to cord cutting. With over a million customers jumping ship …
Report: AT&T and Verizon have been working together to screw you
According to a New York Times article that landed Friday afternoon, the Department of Justice has opened an antitrust investigation into collusion between Verizon and AT&T’s wireless …
AT&T is launching a $15-a-month TV streaming service, but there’s a big catch
While giving testimony as part of AT&T’s ongoing lawsuit against the Department of Justice yesterday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson let slip that the network will …
AT&T is doubling down on fake 5G
Real 5G networks and devices won’t be available until early 2019, according to most analysts, but that isn’t going to stop wireless companies from jostling …
New report reveals which wireless carriers get the most robocalls
Is there anything more annoying about phones than the influx of robocalls that the United States has experienced over the past few years? What was …
