Tag: AT&T
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AT&T Wants to Delay SpaceX’s Plans to Offer Texts, Calls, and LTE Data From Space As It Asks For Changes
A year ago, T-Mobile and SpaceX unveiled a partnership to combine the former’s spectrum with the latter’s network of low-orbit satellites for more comprehensive wireless coverage, an initiative they coined “Coverage Above and Beyond.” But with SpaceX’s Starlink service getting ready to test sending and receiving calls and texts from space, AT&T and the Rural…
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AT&T May Sell DIRECTV – Here is Everything We Know & What This Means For Cord Cutting
This week, a report revealed that AT&T was actively looking at selling all or part of its remaining 70% ownership stake in DIRECTV. The deal would mark a complete break between DIRECTV and AT&T. The satellite TV provider struggled for years under AT&T management, only to be spun out back in August 2021 in a…
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Mint Mobile Told To Cease Claiming its Unlimited Plan is “Now Just $15 a Month”
You may want to check the exact terms of that Mint Mobile unlimited plan. The National Advertising Division recommended that Mint stop or modify its claim that its service is “now just $15 a month” because it could be misleading to customers. The $15 rate for the unlimited only lasts three months as a promotion,…
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AT&T Quietly Changed its Smartphone Unlock Policy
AT&T has updated its unlock policy for paid-in-full devices without many people noticing. Instead of being able to purchase a smartphone in full from the carrier and moving to another service without waiting, customers now must wait 60 days from the purchase date. While the change happened in late July, they were spotted a few…
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T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Satellite-Cellular Partnership May Be Grounded For Now
A little more than a year ago, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came together to unveil a partnership to offer a hybrid service that utilized satellites to boost the coverage and range of cellphones, with a promises of expanding coverage and eliminating dead zones for customers. Fast forward to today, and…
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AT&T Successfully Made a 5G Phone Call From Space
AT&T phone home? Well, sort of. AST SpaceMobile, the cellular satellite company backed by the mobile carrier, placed a satellite call over 5G. It’s the “first ever” 5G connection between an unmodified smartphone and a space satellite. On September 8, AST SpaceMobile used a Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone in a wireless dead zone in Maui,…
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Telecom and Cable Companies Are Starting to Mirror Each Other as Cord Cutting Takes Center Stage
The telecom companies and the cable providers, with legacies of providing phone and video services, respectively, have traditionally been like water and oil or fire and ice – industries that are diametrically opposed to each other. But a funny thing happened: They increasingly started to look and act more like each other. Two decades ago,…
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DIRECTV is Dropping Free Max Perk From Legacy Plans
An old DIRECTV perk tied to legacy AT&T wireless and internet plans that included free access to HBO Max, now rebranded Max, is going away. Customers are reporting that they’ve received a notice that their plan would no longer include Max. DIRECTV said that the customers who are getting the alert are ones that are…
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T-Mobile, a Wireless Provider, May Be Placing a Bigger Bet on Fiber
T-Mobile may be taking a page out of its telecom rivals Verizon and AT&T and moving in fiber optics in a bigger way. The wireless carrier, which distinguishes itself from its competitors by focusing almost entirely on wireless — home and mobile — is in discussions with the fiber business of Tillman Global Holdings to…
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AT&T Says It Isn’t Interested in Buying USCellular
Regional wireless carrier USCellular is looking at potential suitors. Don’t count AT&T as one of them. AT&T Chief Financial Officer Pascal Desroches was asked about the company’s appetite for acquiring USCellular, and he was clear with his response. “We really like our wireless business and I don’t think that particular asset would change anything demonstrable…