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Blackberry Bold's US Debut Delayed Yet Again
Say it ain't so,
7:12 PM on Fri Oct 3 2008
By Adrian Covert
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19 comments
Latest by tsunamisurf: bold/storm/javelin, whichever comes out first on whichever provider, I am switching. more »
copyright protection
Hollywood Teams with AT&T and Others In Possible Packet-Filtering Coalition
Some of you P2P fans may want to know about a new coalition called Arts + Labs. It may sound like some kind of open-source hippie think tank, but it's actually a powerful alignment of film and music copyright owners (NBC Universal, Viacom and the Songwriters Guild of America) and tech firms and ISPs (Microsoft, Cisco Systems and AT&T). It's a group that could put together a pretty serious anti-piracy system without much trouble. Saul Hansell at the NY Times says the group claims that "network operators must have the flexibility to manage and expand their networks to defend against net pollution and illegal file trafficking which threatens to congest and delay the network for all consumers.” Hansell interprets this as a call to filter packets, and put the kibosh on any dubious transfers. More »
at&t
iPhone Users with Non-iPhone Plans Get Friendly Warning Notes from AT&T
I'm not sure how far to read into this, but a Boy Genius reader who uses an iPhone with a non-iPhone data plan sent in a note he or she received from AT&T. It was friendly and definitely not a threat, but it does border on stalkery, with a hint of forboding: More »
5:54 PM on Sun Sep 21 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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53 comments
Latest by KLanD: You know what I find most amusing about all this? You can't even leave a visual voice mail message with an more »
treo pro
Palm Treo Pro Finds A US Carrier, Is It AT&T?
Palm announced in their quarterly call that it had found an unnamed carrier to sell their new Treo Pro, but declined to mention who, specifically, would peddle the $550 phone (at a potentially subsidized cost). WM Experts seem to think the carrier will be AT&T, which makes enough sense, since AT&T tends to get the big Palm GSM phones first in the US. More »
6:36 PM on Fri Sep 19 2008
By Adrian Covert
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12 comments
Latest by Faslane66: I think it is AT&T because the only Treo you can get at my local store is the Centro, they more »
Sleazy Moves
AT&T just sent out an 8,000-word update to its service agreement, and it's full of all sorts of lovely, anti-customer things. For example, now people will only be given a 30-day notice of price increases when it's "commercially reasonable." Also, you can't sue AT&T. In fact, according to the LA Times, the whole thing might go so far as to be illegal. Oh, AT&T.
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AT&T Buries Potentially-Illegal New Terms of Service in 2,500-Page 'Guidebook'
AT&T just sent out an 8,000-word update to its service agreement, and it's full of all sorts of lovely, anti-customer things. For example, now people will only be given a 30-day notice of price increases when it's "commercially reasonable." Also, you can't sue AT&T. In fact, according to the LA Times, the whole thing might go so far as to be illegal. Oh, AT&T.
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12:15 PM on Mon Sep 15 2008
By Adam Frucci
22,533 views,
38 comments
Latest by pliSkiNAKE: @sinerasis: Yeah. I agree to that, and also don't know the answer to that either. I am glad more »
verizon
Verizon Offering "Switcher Credits" To Lure Over Sprint and AT&T Subscribers
According to internal documents obtained by BGR, Verizon is offering
1:01 PM on Tue Sep 9 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,096 views,
7 comments
Latest by archd3: i just switched away from verizon for the iphone. i love the phone -- i miss verizon's voice coverage though. more »
cellphones
JD Power Rates the Country's Best Wireless Companies, VZW Still Champ
Survey-masters JD Power and Associates have completed their most recent review of US mobile providers, dividing the US into six regions and crowning a king of call quality for each. And for most areas, Verizon is still tops. But not everywhere. More »
8:53 AM on Mon Sep 8 2008
By John Mahoney
13,321 views,
46 comments
Latest by Truth Bringer :D: I've been with T-Mobile since they bought voice stream.. or was it the other way around... ANYHOO I've pondered switching more »
qik
Qik Video Streaming Comes to HTC Phones
Good news for HTC phone owners, Qik is bringing its popular video streaming service to the Touch Dual, Touch Diamond and the TyTn-II. They are also adding two other Windows Mobile phones to the list: The AT&T Tilt, and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. All you need to do is set up a free account on the Qik website and you will be streaming video from your handset in no time. [Qik]
Making this Deathstar Fully Operational: More Bars, More Places, Less Irony
AT&T's Internal Plans To Fix Their Network
AT&T was calling me to set up an interview with their CTO, but all I could hear was garbled noise on my AT&T iPhone. "I can't really hear you!" I shouted, as if volume would clear the channel. It's always been like this, in my home in San Francisco.
While the howls of iPhone 3G reception issues get louder and louder, I've always wondered if it was the network's fault, as some Swedish scientists and journalists have recently suggested. Maybe it's just new AT&T customers making the bulk of the noise. From my experience, the phone isn't blameless, but the network is a major part of the issue.
Continuing the call on an land line, I said I'd be glad to meet with John Donovan. To be perfectly honest, on a certain level, I didn't really want to ask questions. All I wanted to do was get the guy in front of me and berate him for his network's voice quality and reception, relatively slow 3G rollout and coverage. AT&T's been last in all those metrics for years (according to JD Powers) and they were still raking in the bucks as the nation's largest carrier. But after meeting him, I'm certain John Donovan has the intent the Old AT&T didn't. And a detailed plan on how to make "More Bars in More Places" less like a joke and more like a promise. In fact, Donovan surprised me when he said, "We want to be number one in all those metrics" — That's a lot of big talk when I can't even make a call from my own house right now. Here's the outline of the plan, which Donovan provided later — as well as some straight talk from an AT&T engineer on whether or not the plans will work.
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1:00 PM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Brian Lam
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109 comments
Latest by gtweaver: Some things will probably never change at AT&T... I started working for AT&T in 1978, as a Service Rep for Mountain more »
