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- AT&T: U-verse TV service to pass 30 million homes by 2010
- AT&T unleashed a bevy of metrics Tuesday at an analyst conference. The big one: AT&T's U-Verse television service is expected to reach about 30 million homes by the end of 2010. By the end of 2008, AT&T's U-Verse service will top 1 million homes. Simply put, AT&T plans...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- AT&T talks up wireless, TV subscribers
- AT&T said Tuesday that it added 2 million wireless subscribers and more than doubled its U-verse TV customer base in a quarter. The telecom giant reported third quarter adjusted earnings of $4.3 billion, or 71 cents a share, on revenue of $30.1 billion. Including charges, AT&T reported third quarter...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Quarter, TV, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Net neutrality push expected to resume in Congress
- Net neutrality push expected to resume in CongressBSI just answered to this story in another forum.See: [url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-1035-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=28736&messageID=535927]More Net Neutrality BS?[/url]eBay signed? What a bunch of hypocrites!!!!I am so infuriated with eBay I want to shout it from the roof tops! Their new policies this year keep average people like myself...
- Tags: Vertical industries, U.S. Congress, TalkBack, government, big business, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- FCC approves AT&T-BellSouth merger
- FCC approves AT&T-BellSouth mergerMore Net Neutrality BS?Gimme a break! Redirection and denial of content is NOT going to happen; there's already effective laws about this. Elimination of QoS is a bad idea; restricting (NOT eliminating, just capping bandwidth) certain types of traffic is necessary to keep the net from being...
- Tags: FCC, QoS, USG
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- AT&T offers more for BellSouth deal approval
- AT&T offers more for BellSouth deal approvalLike i said before.. NO NO NO do not do this!Yes, i put my protest in already.I dont like the smell or the possible outcomes of this merger. Especially net neutrality. I think if the FCC is intent on allowing this merger...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Federal government, AT&T Corp., AT&T Offers, merger, BellSouth Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-29
- AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approval
- AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approvalAT&T, the darkest phoenix.Mutha Bell is about to take its biggest step towards resurrecting their monopoly, and will get control of the Internet on top. And the government? They won't give a dead rat's ash about it, as long as...
- Tags: INTERNET, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network technology, Broadband Internet, FCC, AT&T Corp., Mutha Bell, concession, BellSouth Corp., merger
- Discussion threads 2006-12-28
- AT&T now makes nice to get FCC merger approval
- From Washington comes late word tonight that a compromise has apparently been hammered out that will clear the way for AT&T to acquire BellSouth for $85 billion.Thats the AT&T headed by "one-time," fierce net neutrality opponent Edward Whitacre, Jr. Youre lookin at him. The compromise is said to be...
- Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., SBC-AT&, T, Net Neutrality, General, Regulatory
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- FCC Commish's reservations on voting in AT&T-BellSouth merger cheer net neutrality advocates
- Turns out that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell wont vote on the AT&T-BellSouth merger.I have to tell you I am surprised. In the last six years, we havent seen all that many Republicans buck the "free market" mantra enthusiastically championed by the GOP. And it is not common that regulators...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Federal government, McDowell, Net Neutrality, Gigi Sohn, FCC, merger
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Broadband piece was 6th most read on open source blog
- A rant I wrote on the U.S. broadband crisis, highlighting an e-book by Bruce Kushnick, was the 6th most popular item on this blog during 2006. (Image from The Wireless Report.)The issues involved became central background to two big debates in 2006, the AT&T-BellSouth merger and network neutrality. Despite intense...
- Tags: broadband, management, mass market, Government, Hardware, LANs and WANs, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- FCC chairman moves to end AT&T-BellSouth impasse
- FCC chairman moves to end AT&T-BellSouth impassedomestic spyingWhat about the $200 Billion lawsuits against AT&T and BellSouth over illegally disclosing records to the NSA? Is this holding up the merger? It should be.The rising threat of AT&T 2.0 to the Internet looms large.If AT&T was allowed to assimilate...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, FCC, AT&T Corp., merger, newsgroup
- Discussion threads 2006-12-02
- FCC official mum on AT&T-BellSouth merger
- FCC official mum on AT&T-BellSouth mergerDomestic spying litigationHello? What about the $200 Billion class action lawsuits against AT&T and BellSouth over warrantless wiretaps and bulk disclosure of call records? Those cases are pending in San Francisco and the ACLU wrote to the FCC urging them to consider the...
- Tags: Federal government, Litigation, AT&T Corp., FCC, AT&T-BellSouth merger
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- AT&T's promises to FCC are full of holes
- Memos and follow-up bouncing around between AT&T and the FCC appear (keyword-appear) to have AT&T pledging that if the FCC breaks its 2-2 deadlock and approves the acquisition of BellSouth, then AT&T will be good.Broadband everywhere, free broadband modems handed out like Santa on Christmas morn, a pledge to hold...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., FCC
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Cingular accused of duping ex-AT
- Cingular accused of duping ex-ATM$? Taken to a whole NEW level byEnron. That cutthroat Ken Lay took the chicken's way out. Wouldn't put it past him if he went out and got some drug that [i]induced[/i] that heart attack of his. [i]Suicide by deceit[/i]...how appropriate THAT would be.ATT Wireless...
- Tags: ATTW, ATT Wireless, Cingular Wireless
- Discussion threads 2006-07-07
- Phone companies gather at TelecomNext, Las Vegas
- Telecom bosses say customer is real boss nowAT&T CEO Ed Whitacre talks IPTV and Net neutrality, and defends the proposed merger with BellSouth.
- Tags: telephone
- Videos 2006-03-21
- Net neutrality and market interference
- In a previous post on the subject of AT&T's proposed merger with BellSouth, I suggested "net neutrality" rules might be a better way of dealing with the concerns posed as reason to block the move. This led to a response via email by Matt, a web developer in San Francisco...
- Tags: merger, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-03-17
- Will open spectrum be allowed?
- Will open spectrum be allowed?Who controls the licensed spectrum for our WiMax wireless internet future?As a result of the recent acquisitions by two RBOC's and the merger of Sprint/Nextel these 3 companies have acquired most of the available licensed spectrum for wireless internet. The mega mergers bring together lots...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Intel Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., WiMAX, spectrum
- Discussion threads 2006-03-09
- What does AT&T/BellSouth mean for consumers?
- What does AT&T/BellSouth mean for consumers?Actually, Ma Bell didn't have any competitionBell Teliphone Company, aka Ma Bell, didn't have any competitors when it was broken up in 1975. That's the primary reason it was broken up. Basically, it's monopoly lead to poor customer service, over charging for what...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, WAS IT, phone, phone company, Ma Bell
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- AT&T and telco monopolization
- AT&T, or rather, it's former incarnation - SBC - is on a buying binge. They bought a large stake in Cingular year ago (a company that previously bought AT&T Wireless), absorbed AT&T (and took on the name of their new acquisition, a recognition of the good branding associated with the...
- Tags: AT&T Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- My analysis: what will the AT
- My analysis: what will the ATTwo dinosaurs matingjust before the asteroid hits. That's MY analysis.Big Bang Theoryand the closed universe concept. 1984 saw the "Big Bang", the breakup of the Bell operating system. Seems the universe created back then has reached it's maximum expansion point, and is contracting back in...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, environment, stupidity, government, Bad News, AT&T Corp., BellSouth Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., analysis
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
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