AT&T will buy mobile spectrum in the 700MHz band from Verizon Communications for $1.9 billion, AT&T said Friday. AT&T will pay cash and trade AWS (advanced wireless services) spectrum for the B block of the 700MHz spectrum, the company ...
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AT&T reported a slight increase in revenue and a smaller net loss for the fourth quarter, helped along largely by smartphone and broadband sales The telecom giant on Thursday reported $32.6 billion in revenue for the three months ended ...
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A problem caused by a software upgrade has caused a widespread outage on AT&T's U-verse broadband service this week, leading to a torrent of attacks against the carrier on social media. AT&T said on Wednesday that the outage had affected ...
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AT&T said Thursday it had restored its U-verse broadband service to all customers who suffered from a widespread outage this week. The fiber-based TV, Internet and phone service had been out for three days or more, according to some ...
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The parent company of Alltel, a mobile telephone network serving rural customers in six states, has agreed to sell the business to AT&T for about $780 million, Atlantic Tele-Network announced Tuesday. The all-cash transaction will give ...
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AT&T sold a record number of smartphones in the last three months of 2012 as consumers snapped up new products from the likes of Apple and Samsung. The company sold 10.2 million smartphones in the quarter, it said in a regulatory filing ...
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AT&T will expand its Business Exchange collaboration service by adding Polycom back-end infrastructure to complement the Cisco Systems technology it's been using for several years. Customers of the service will start to get new options in ...
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PowerA today announced that the MOGA Mobile Gaming System for Android 2.3+ is now available in 1,150 AT&T corporate owned retail stores and online at ATT.com/wireless. Gamers, picking up a new Android smartphone, can now purchase a MOGA at ...
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AT&T announced today that it will be the exclusive carrier of the AT&T Unite, a 4G LTE mobile hotspot from Sierra Wireless that lets customers take the mobile internet with them on-the-go. AT&T Unite has an easy to use 2.4" touchscreen ...
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Samsung announced last week, beginning December 14, AT&T customers looking for a tough phone that stands up to the elements will have one more choice with the Samsung Rugby® III for $99.99 with a two-year agreement. This rugged flip ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- AT&T on Monday announced an all-digital, wireless home monitoring service that will allow customers to control home security and automate tasks such as locking doors and turning off lights from a smartphone, ...
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AT&T announced it sold over 10 million smartphones in Q4 2012. The figure tops its previous record quarter of 9.4 million sold in Q4 2011 Android and Apple smartphones made up a large part of AT&T sales. "We had another incredible ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS - With app development, serendipity matters. Ruggero Scorcioni knows that better than almost anybody. Scorcioni showed up in Las Vegas last weekend to enter an AT&T 26-hour app development hackathon, primarily ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- AT&T and Qualcomm jointly announced a new development platform Monday based on a Qualcomm Gobi chipset to be used to build industrial and health care apps and embedded devices on Java to connect to AT&T 's 3G ...
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Siemens AG is commissioning an independent academic study of the company's development from 1981 to 2011. The project is to be undertaken by the economic and company historian Hartmut Berghoff and the contemporary historian Cornelia Rauh. ...
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