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My Time With Google’s Cellular Service Was Mostly a Disaster

I glimpsed the future before it collapsed into bullshit. I wanted Project Fi, Google’s new and experimental cellular phone service, to be amazing. The idea sounded so superior to the status quo that it just had to be destined for greatness. But like the Star Wars prequels and most food with black olives, it let…

Reviews Darren Orf Aug 21

AT&T’s New Plans Come With a Crap-Ton of Data

AT&T and T-Mobile are in a data pricing war, and the result is good news for you, the customer. Today, AT&T sweetened its data deal to help entice new users over to its Mobile Share Value plans, but even with these plans—which are better priced overall—it seems AT&T is making you choose between a teensy…

Tech News Darren Orf Aug 14

If You Live in the Southeast, Has Your Cell Phone Stopped Working?

We’re getting a lot of tips about a widespread cellular coverage outage in the southeast for AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon customers. Local news stationsare reportinglarge outages in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville in Tennessee, as well as parts of Alabama and Kentucky. Sprint has confirmed that it’s experiencing problems in Kentucky: We are aware of impacts…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Aug 4

AT&T Is Already Rolling Out a $200 Wireless-and-TV Plan with DirecTV

Late last month, AT&T bought DirecTV for $48.5 billion, merging America’s second biggest cell carrier with its biggest satellite TV provider. Now, DirecTV and Ma Bell are already announcing a $200 promo deal that’ll roll out nationwide next week. With the promo, new customers to AT&T’s U-verse TV or DirecTV will get basic HD TV…

Gadgets Bryan Lufkin Aug 3

It’s On: AT&T and DirecTV Just Got the OK to Merge

The FCC has approved AT&T’s $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV. That means the second-biggest cell carrier is officially merging with the biggest satellite TV provider. Two giant companies merging is rarely a good deal for people who use their services, especially in an industry like broadband—that’s one of the reasons the dreaded Time Warner-Comcast merger…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Jul 24

Judges Revive Claim that AT&T Overcharged Schools for Internet Service

For seven years, a Wisconsin telecom consultant has waged an unsuccessful legal fight against AT&T, alleging that the company long defrauded a federal program by overcharging the nation’s schools and libraries for Internet and telephone services. Now an appeals court in the District of Columbia has given new life to his case. The little-noticed June…

Tech News Jeff Gerth - ProPublica Jul 24

A Stunning Map of AT&T’s Phone Network from 1891

Today, AT&T is regularly listed as one of the most hated companies in the United States. But back in 1891, two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, the company was just taking its first steps. This map of its network from that year is just beautiful. Think of it as AT&T’s baby picture.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 15

AT&T Thinks Shitty Internet For Poor Families Will Help Its Merger

AT&T is trying to acquire DirecTV, a deal worth some $67 billion that would create a soul-sucking leviathan telecoms company. The deed is all but done, and just awaiting FCC approval — something AT&T is hoping to help along by (temporarily) offering (shitty) internet to low-income families. In a regulatory filing submitted to the FCC…

Tech News Chris Mills Jul 7

The Excellent Android Projector You’ll Probably Never Use

I’ve always liked the idea of having a projector, but never actually owned one. It always seemed like too much work: Sure, projecting movies like in theaters would be sweet, but then I’d have to set it up all the time. Isn’t there a better way? Actually, yes: AT&T now carries a projector that’s also…

Reviews Sean Buckley Jun 19

Here’s Another Way That AT&T Is Screwing Over Its Customers

I recently renewed my AT&T contract, and it was a big mistake. Sure, the company gave me a little discount on a new iPhone that I very much enjoy. However, we also know AT&T gives millions of customers a bullshit deal when it sells them “unlimited” data service but later throttles that data to an…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jun 17

AT&T Must Pay $100 Million for Supposedly Slowing “Unlimited” Data

The Federal Communications Commission hit AT&T with one of its biggest fines in history today: Ma Bell has to fork over a hefty $100 million for allegedly slowing internet speeds for folks with unlimited data plans. Apparently, the FCC found out that AT&T throttled net speeds for people who used up a particular amount of…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Jun 17

This 1993 AT&T Concept Video Predicted Skype’s New Translator App

You can keep your flying cars and jetpacks. The real sign that we’re living in the future? Easy: real-time language translation. Skype just put its version into wide release. But effortless translation is something we’ve been waiting on for quite some time, as you can see from this 1993 clip of an AT&T concept video…

Tech News Matt Novak May 12

Pro/Con: Why Google’s Fi Could Be Awesome and Terrible

Today, Google announced its very own wireless network. Just $20 a month for unlimited call and texts, plus $10 per gigabyte of data. No contracts or termination fees. Google will even refund your unused megabytes. Sounds awesome. So what’s the catch already? The catch is that if Google becomes a cell carrier, it’ll wield more…

Tech News Sean Hollister Apr 22

What It Was Like to Work at the Birthplace of Cellphones and Lasers

A semi-rural New Jersey community about 45 miles outside of New York City seems like an unlikely home for the most important breakthroughs in telecommunications of the 20th century. But that’s exactly what happened at Bell Labs’ Holmdel facility in the 1960s. https://gizmodo.com/inside-bell-labs-where-the-future-is-being-built-1561723432 Holmdel was built by the legendary Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1962—inside,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 21

AT&T Let Scammers Steal Personal Data from at Least 280,000 Customers

Nearly 280,000 AT&T customers had their personal data stolen by scammers, including the last four digits of social security numbers and other identifying information. The huge breach happened when at least three AT&T employees at a Mexico-based call center sold customer data to scammers. The breach went down from November 2013 to April 2014, lasting…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Apr 8

RadioShack Selling Customer Data In Bankruptcy Auction

RadioShack’s recent bankruptcy filing means that it has to close nearly 2,000 stores and sell off many of its assets. Some of those assets are to be expected, like trademarks and store leases. But other assets might come as a shock to consumers — assets like personal customer information and email addresses. As Bloomberg reports,…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 24

Carriers Now Have to Agree to Unlock Your Phone Once the Contract’s Paid

In the past, one of the most obnoxious things about buying a phone on contract was how carriers could allow or deny requests to unlock it, even after you paid it off. But starting today, once you’ve paid off your contract or owned a pre-paid phone for a year, all major US carriers have to…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Feb 11

Did the Internet Win Yet? No. But Here’s What We Got.

It’s a good day for the internet: Wiredjust published an op-ed by FCC chairman Tom Wheeler detailing his new proposal for strict net neutrality rules, rules that largely resemble the terrific plan President Obama outlined a few months ago. Great! But let’s be real: An opinion piece is not a new policy. Wheeler’s proposal is…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 4

In 1976 Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Dark Side of Smartphones

Arthur C. Clarke made it his business to look into the future. And just like the dozens of prognosticators who would come before and after him, he got a few things right and a few things wrong. AT&T has just uploaded a video from a conference at MIT wherein Clarke describes the future from the…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 3

AT&T Made the First Transcontinental Phone Call 100 Years Ago Today

On Jan. 25, 1915, inventor Alexander Graham Bell (center) called up his former lab partner, Thomas Watson, in San Francisco, making the first transcontinental phone call in history. “Mr. Watson, are you there?” Watson answered in the affirmative as hundreds of attendees erupted in applause, according to a 1915 edition of The New York Times:…

Tech News Darren Orf Jan 25

My Time With Google’s Cellular Service Was Mostly a Disaster

AT&T’s New Plans Come With a Crap-Ton of Data

If You Live in the Southeast, Has Your Cell Phone Stopped Working?

AT&T Is Already Rolling Out a $200 Wireless-and-TV Plan with DirecTV

It’s On: AT&T and DirecTV Just Got the OK to Merge

Judges Revive Claim that AT&T Overcharged Schools for Internet Service

A Stunning Map of AT&T’s Phone Network from 1891

AT&T Thinks Shitty Internet For Poor Families Will Help Its Merger

The Excellent Android Projector You’ll Probably Never Use

Here’s Another Way That AT&T Is Screwing Over Its Customers

AT&T Must Pay $100 Million for Supposedly Slowing “Unlimited” Data

This 1993 AT&T Concept Video Predicted Skype’s New Translator App

Pro/Con: Why Google’s Fi Could Be Awesome and Terrible

What It Was Like to Work at the Birthplace of Cellphones and Lasers

AT&T Let Scammers Steal Personal Data from at Least 280,000 Customers

RadioShack Selling Customer Data In Bankruptcy Auction

Carriers Now Have to Agree to Unlock Your Phone Once the Contract’s Paid

Did the Internet Win Yet? No. But Here’s What We Got.

In 1976 Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Dark Side of Smartphones

AT&T Made the First Transcontinental Phone Call 100 Years Ago Today

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