AT&T CEO: Recent price jacks due to AT&T’s attempt to monopolize GSM in US
AT&T has a grudge with the Federal Communications Commission, and during the mobile carrier’s quarterly earnings call today, CEO Randall Stephenson criticized the FCC over spectrum availability and the bombed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, with him further claiming AT&T’s spectrum crux is forcing jacked prices against its highest data users. The American Telephone and Telegraph...
Verizon announces then kills extra $2 fee to pay bill by phone or online
Good news for iPhone owners on the Verizon network. A day after announcing a plan to charge customers a $2.00 fee for telephone and online bill payments the plan has vanished without a trace.
Could it be the announcement today from the U.S. Fede...
FCC "looking into" Verizon’s new $2 payment convenience fee
On Thursday, wireless telecom giant Verizon Wireless said it would begin charging consumers a $2 "convenience fee" for some bill payments starting January 15. That decision, which Verizon says is necessary to cover the costs of p...
Verizon drops $2 payment fee in face of FCC scrutiny, public outcry
On Thursday, wireless telecom giant Verizon Wireless said it would begin charging consumers a $2 "convenience fee" for some bill payments starting January 15. That decision, which Verizon said was necessary to cover the costs of ...
FCC green lights first white space broadband device
In September of 2007 the general public first heard about "white space" broadband devices via a series of scary television advertisements rolled out by TV broadcaster groups. "Digital television means you can watch your fav......
LightSquared to FCC: it’s our spectrum, interference is GPS industry’s problem
Embattled wholesale satellite broadband contender LightSquared has taken off the gloves. The company has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a "declaratory ruling" confirming its right to use spectrum licensed t...
While T-Mobile eludes AT&T, Verizon buys up spectrum
Ding dong, sing the naysayers, AT&T's bid to buy T-Mobile is almost dead. We've been keeping an eye on the troubled $39 billion acquisitions crusade through the recent weeks. Earlier this month, AT&T declared...
LightSquared calls leaked GPS test report a "distortion of truth"
LightSquared is furious over a news report suggesting that, in various trials, the satellite broadband company's proposed transmission system bumps into GPS devices around 75 percent of the time. A leaked preliminary draft ...
DoJ: Take AT&T/T-Mobile trial off the fast track
AT&T's $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile hit a new snag today. The Department of Justice has told a Federal judge that the government plans to ask the court for a motion to stay or...
AT&T says it won’t back down on T-Mobile acquisition
AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens is putting a brave face on his company's beleaguered bid to acquire T-Mobile. Speaking at the UBS Conference on Global Media in New York City on Wednesday morning, Stephens...
A “disruptive force”: why Uncle Sam wants to save T-Mobile from AT&T
By now, everyone knows that the Federal Communications Commission has accepted the withdrawal of AT&T's $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile. That doesn't mean that the fight is over. The companies promise that they'll conti......
