Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | d3sign) Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access […]
Enlarge / LaPlace, Louisiana: Jacqueline Smith waits with her mother Lucille Matthew for transportation after they were rescued from their flooded neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on August 30, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Scott Olson) AT& T today said that only 60 percent of its network within Louisiana is working as Hurricane […]
Enlarge / Pretty Good Phone Privacy wants to minimize how much your wireless provider knows about your location. (credit: Noam Galai | Getty Images) Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were able to pay shadowy third-party companies to track where […]
Enlarge / An AT& T technician working on a fiber project. (credit: AT& T ) AT& T says that supply-chain shortages will delay fiber construction to about 500, 000 homes that it originally planned to wire up this year and warned that shortages are likely in order to impact other companies that purchase fiber even […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez ) AT& T has completed its spinoff of DirecTV after six years of mismanagement in which nearly 10 million customers ditched the company’s pay-TV services. AT& T bought DirecTV for $49 billion ($67 billion including debt) in July 2015 even though DirecTV and other traditional TV services were […]
Enlarge / Lovie Newman tells News 4 San Antonio about having to wait nearly four months for AT&T Internet service. (credit: News 4 San Antonio) AT&T reportedly forced a San Antonio woman to wait nearly four months to get Internet service at her new home, and she didn’t get close to solving the problem until […]
Enlarge (credit: Dish Network) Dish Network has agreed to pay AT&T at least $5 billion over 10 years for network access amid a feud between Dish and T-Mobile. Dish is in the early stages of building a 5G network and in the meantime is serving customers as a reseller using network capacity that it purchases […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez ) On Monday, AT& T announced the end of data slowdowns for smartphone users who purchase “unlimited” data—but the perk is only for customers who buy AT& T’s most expensive mobile plan. AT& T will continue to sell two other “unlimited” plans that can be put into a […]
Enlarge / A sign in front of an AT&T retail store on May 17, 2021, in San Rafael, California. (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan) AT&T says fiber Internet is a “superior” technology that is built for today and the future because of its ability to deliver symmetrical upload and download speeds of 1Gbps and […]
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