Tag Archives: AT&T

AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia, basically admitting giant merger was a mistake

reader comments 89 with 76 posters participating Share this story AT&T today announced it will spin off WarnerMedia—including HBO and Warner Bros.—into a new company, less than three years after AT&T bought Time Warner Inc. for $108 billion. AT&T said it struck a deal with Discovery, Inc. to combine WarnerMedia and Discovery’s assets into a… Read More: AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia, basically admitting giant merger was… »

Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8%

Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. reader comments 43 with 36 posters participating Share this story US mobile customers are almost never able to connect to millimeter-wave networks even though the cellular industry and Verizon in particular have spent years hyping the fastest form of… Read More: Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at… »

AT&T promises fiber-to-the-home expansion in 90 metro areas this year

Enlarge / An AT&T technician working on a fiber project. reader comments 75 with 62 posters participating Share this story AT&T today said it will bring fiber Internet to a few million more homes and businesses by the end of this year. “In 2021, AT&T plans to increase its fiber footprint by an additional 3 million… Read More: AT&T promises fiber-to-the-home expansion in 90 metro areas this year »

AT&T announces deal to spin off DirecTV into new company owned by… AT&T

Enlarge / AT&T’s logo at its corporate headquarters on March 13, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. reader comments 55 with 46 posters participating Share this story Nearly six years after buying DirecTV for $48.5 billion, AT&T today announced a deal to sell a minority stake in the business unit and spin it out into a new… Read More: AT&T announces deal to spin off DirecTV into new company… »

Verizon and AT&T dominate spectrum auction, spending combined $69 billion

reader comments 17 with 16 posters participating Share this story Verizon and AT&T dominated the US government’s latest spectrum auction, spending a combined $68.9 billion on licenses in the upper 3GHz band. Verizon’s winning bids totaled $45.45 billion, while AT&T’s came in at $23.41 billion. T-Mobile was third with $9.34 billion as the three biggest… Read More: Verizon and AT&T dominate spectrum auction, spending combined $69 billion »

AT&T and Frontier have let phone networks fall apart, Calif. regulator finds

reader comments 61 with 49 posters participating Share this story AT&T and Frontier have let their copper phone networks deteriorate through neglect since 2010, resulting in poor service quality and many lengthy outages, a report commissioned by the California state government found. Customers in low-income areas and areas without substantial competition have fared the worst,… Read More: AT&T and Frontier have let phone networks fall apart, Calif.… »

AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad

Enlarge / Aaron Epstein after conducting a speed test on his new AT&T fiber service, in a picture taken by his wife, Anne. Anne Epstein reader comments 96 with 74 posters participating Share this story When 90-year-old Aaron Epstein bought a Wall Street Journal print ad to complain about his slow AT&T Internet service, the… Read More: AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral… »

AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds

reader comments 58 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story A man who has been an AT&T customer since 1960 has a message for CEO John Stankey about the company’s failure to upgrade DSL areas to modern Internet service. Aaron Epstein, 90, is so frustrated by his 3Mbps Internet plan that he… Read More: AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain… »

AT&T eats a $15.5 billion impairment charge as DirecTV debacle continues

Enlarge / A man walks with an umbrella outside of AT&T corporate headquarters on March 13, 2020, in Dallas, Texas. reader comments 60 with 51 posters participating Share this story AT&T lost 617,000 customers from DirecTV and its other TV businesses in the final quarter of 2020, capping a year in which it lost nearly… Read More: AT&T eats a $15.5 billion impairment charge as DirecTV debacle… »

AT&T may keep majority ownership of DirecTV as it closes in on final deal

Enlarge / A DirecTV satellite dish seen outside a bar in Portland, Oregon, in October 2019. reader comments 54 with 40 posters participating Share this story AT&T is reportedly closing in on a deal to sell a stake in DirecTV to TPG, a private-equity firm. Unfortunately for customers hoping that AT&T will relinquish control of… Read More: AT&T may keep majority ownership of DirecTV as it closes… »