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AT&T-Verizon Infographic
Our friends at The Simple Dollar, a consumer-focused blog, have put together an infographic showing how AT&T and Verizon dominate the US wireless market. There’s not much new information, but you are given a panoramic view of the existing terrain. … Continue reading
Back at the FCC: Maps and Meetups
I haven’t visited the FCC’s website in recent months. At least since the FCC’s Heimlich maneuver that forced AT&T to cough-up T-Mobile. While some in Congress think otherwise, there’s more to the FCC than its evil plans on our communications … Continue reading
Best Bits From the FCC Report on AT&T Merger
So much to choose from! I’ve gotten through the first half of the FCC’s analysis of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. To my utter lack of surprise, all the things you or I might have intuited about this deal have been found … Continue reading
US vs. AT&T: Pre-Trial Paper Wars
They argued over lists and schedules and experts witnesses and limitations placed on adverse witnesses and written versus oral testimony and perhaps the number of coffee breaks–’cause this trial will require plenty of that. I am referring to the pre-trial … Continue reading
Baton Rouge, LA: AT&T’s Kind of Town
The FCC divides the country up, in terms of wireless spectrum, into CMAs or Cellular Market Areas. In their recent suit against AT&T, the US Department of Justice gauged the effect of a T-Mobile acquisition across the top 100 CMAs, … Continue reading
US v. AT&T!
Bloomberg reports that the US Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust complaint against the AT&T-T-Mobile merger at the US District Court, District of Columbia.
Back at the FCC: Congress Responds to AT&T Merger
With everyone on vacation or preparing for vacation, the FCC released letters from our Congressional representatives regarding their feelings on the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile. None of the opinions express should come as a surprise to anyone following this debate. … Continue reading
AT&T 2Q2011 Results: Still Wired
While AT&T may be boasting about the wireless side of the business in its 2Q results, Ma Bell 2.0 is still very dependent on its copper cables. True, wireless revenue has been doing the growing, rising to $14.1 billion over … Continue reading
Good Move AT&T: Free WiFi in NYC Parks
New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg announced today an agreement with AT&T to provide free public WiFi service for the next five years in 20 city parks. They’ll soon be coverage in parts of Manhattan’s Central Park, in Battery Park, along … Continue reading
Why Else Would You Go to the Grand Canyon?
There may be good arguments in support of AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile, but improved WiFi access in the Grand Canyon is not one of them. But that’s the claim that the Grand Canyon Hotel Operators Association makes in its comment … Continue reading
