AT&T

DISH And AT&T Done; Agreement Terminates At End Of The Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 01 Jul 2008 02:38 PM PST

As anticipated, AT&T (NYSE: T) will not renew its resale agreement with DISH at the end of the year, according to a regulatory filing made by the satellite operator this…

FCC Regs Opening Pay TV Service To Telcos Upheld By Appeals Court - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 27 Jun 2008 05:53 PM PST

Telcos scored a victory in federal court Friday upholding an earlier Federal Communications Commission ruling that will ease the path for companies like Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T)…

AT&T Creates CDN Unit; What About Acquisitions? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:45 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) is getting serious about getting into the CDN business to compete with the likes of Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) and Limelight and has created a new group. AT&T…

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US IPTV Subscriptions Quadrupled In 2007; Not Taking Away From Satellite (Yet): iSuppli - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 18 Jun 2008 01:32 PM PST

Halfway through 2008, iSuppli is out with its assessment of the IPTV market for 2007. IPTV sometimes gets used for all kinds of things, though in this case they’re talking…

AT&T Demands Payment On $500 Million DISH Note; So Does This Mean No Deal? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 17 Jun 2008 07:26 PM PST

Given the old rumors that AT&T (NYSE: T) might eventually acquire DISH, this filing after the bell should’ve jumped out a little more… In it, DISH says AT&T is requiring…

T-Mobile, AT&T And Starbucks Resolve Wi-Fi Dispute - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 11 Jun 2008 12:17 PM PST

Starbucks, AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile reached an agreement, putting to rest a week-old lawsuit filed by T-Mobile that alleged that AT&T and Starbucks were not abiding by an agreement…

Verizon Wireless To Acquire Alltel For $28.1 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 05 Jun 2008 06:55 AM PST

Starbucks Turns On Free Wi-Fi For Everyone (Purchase Necessary) - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 03 Jun 2008 04:21 AM PST

Good news for anyone in need of a quick internet fix: Starbucks is turning on free Wi-Fi today, courtesy of its partner AT&T (NYSE: T). The deal, according to USA…

MocoNews Review With Video: AT&T’s MediaFLO Is Best Chance For Mobile TV To Take Off - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 11:31 AM PST

The just-launched AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobile TV service is so good I watched the two-hour long 1982 comedy The Toy, featuring Richard Pryor without even really realizing it. In retrospect,…

AT&T’s MediaFlo Mobile TV Service To Launch Next Week; Pricing Will Make It DOA - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:34 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary moves to make sure it never really…

Starbucks, AT&T National Rollout Begins; Free WiFi Access Begins - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 25 Apr 2008 08:25 AM PST

Actually, I had an inkling of this before the press release rolled in just now—when the AT&T (NYSE: T) network took over as soon as my computer started looking for…

Starbucks Cedes Management Of Hear Music Label To Partner; Will Focus On Digital; Lombard Out - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 24 Apr 2008 05:22 PM PST

Once again, Starbucks is changing course when it comes to entertainment. The company announced today it is pulling out of direct management of the Hear Music label and instead will…

BusinessWeek Online Banks On Reader Engagement; Adds Editor To Manage Efforts - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 23 Apr 2008 10:39 PM PST

Most magazines have adopted some form of online community aspect by this point. But John Byrne, BusinessWeek Online editor-in-chief, feels most efforts haven’t really gone beyond the introduction of reader…

Earnings: AT&T Q1 Revs Up 6.1 Percent; 379,000 U-Verse TV Subs; Broadband Up 13.2 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 05:12 AM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced Q1 revenue of $30.7 billion, up 6.1 percent from $28.9 million in the year-ago period. Net income on an adjusted basis rose 10.3 percent to…

AT&T’s Mobile TV Service Will Launch In May; About Four Months Late - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 27 Mar 2008 03:21 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) said today that it will begin offering Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO mobile TV service in May. The company provided the details in an e-mail today, saying more…

Wireless Spectrum Winners Are Revealed; Google Bids But Verizon Wins - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 20 Mar 2008 12:19 PM PST

The FCC finally unveiled the winners of the federal spectrum auction that closed earlier this week and raised a record-breaking $19.6 billion. The FCC said Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) was…

Udated: William Morris Gets The Fund Fever: Starts With AT&T, Accel And Venrock - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Mar 2008 07:08 PM PST

Updated below: As we have been covering for a while now, the talent agencies here have exploring and raising funds to become de facto venture capital firms themselves, mainly to…

Industry Moves: Discovery’s Schembri Tapped To Manage AT&T’s $3.3 Billion Media Budget - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 06 Feb 2008 12:30 PM PST

A little over three years since Discovery Networks hired him to oversee much of its new media planning strategy, Chris Schembri has defected to AT&T (NYSE: T), where he will…

Broadband Content Bits: AppleTV; mtvU; Break Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 30 Jan 2008 09:46 PM PST

-- AppleTV rental software postponed: Apple announced the software upgrade that will allow AppleTV to handle movie rentals, along with built-in music store, access to Flickr photostreams and .Mac Web…

Earnings: YHOO Q407: Revenues Up 8 Percent, Beats Earnings Estimate; Disappoints On Forecast - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 29 Jan 2008 02:29 PM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reported revenues of $1.8 billion for Q407, up 8 percent compared with $1.7 billion in the same quarter last year. The company earned net income of $206…

Earnings: AT&T: Income Spikes On Merger; Broadband Revs Up 13.7 Percent; 231,000 U-Verse Subs - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Jan 2008 06:18 AM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) reported Q4 revenue of $30.3 billion, up 91 percent from last year’s $15.89 billion—largely due to the merger of AT&T and SBC. On a pro-forma basis, total…

Time Warner Cable To Trial Tiered Consumption Pricing; Aims To Charge Heavy Users - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 17 Jan 2008 09:55 AM PST

*Time Warner Cable* is starting a trial of consumption-based internet pricing, the company has admitted, following a leak of internal memos (see here). A company spokesman told AP that TWC…

Citi Media: Michael Angelakis, CFO, Comcast; Bad Debt And Churn Climbing - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jan 2008 08:07 AM PST

At CES, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts rolled out an impressive list of new features and products. Yesterday, AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson warned that the impact of the weakening…

Citi Media: Randall Stephenson, CEO, AT&T; Economy Hurting Broadband Business - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 08 Jan 2008 01:33 PM PST

The soft economy is taking its toll on AT&T (NYSE: T). Even since Q3 ended, the company has seen an up tick in non-paid disconnects in both broadband and traditional…

Update: AT&T: U-Verse Available To 30 Million Homes in 2010; EchoStar Buy Unlikely; Strong Ad Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 11 Dec 2007 11:51 AM PST

At a meeting for analysts, AT&T (NYSE: T) said it expects U-Verse to be available in 30 million homes by the end of 2010, compared to 5.5 million as of…