AT&T

Updated: FCC Grants AT&T Some Relief On Third-Party Broadband Charges - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 11 Oct 2007 10:30 PM PST

The FCC faces a midnight deadline for a decision on AT&T’s petition to lift regulations on charges for third parties renting its broadband infrastructure. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) earned a similar…

Zucker Carries On NBCU Anti-Piracy Tradition, Then Talks Deals On CNBC - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 03 Oct 2007 08:18 PM PST

A busy Wednesday for NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker—a speech in Washington to carry on predecessor Bob Wright’s battle against piracy; and an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box to chat about…

AT&T-EchoStar: Real Buyout Talks Or Wishful Analyst Thinking? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 27 Sep 2007 02:20 PM PST

Shares of EchoStar Communications (NSDQ: DISH) jumped today on the renewal of rumors that AT&T (NYSE: T) may be eying the company. Stoking the speculation: a research note from Oppenheimer…

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Goldman Sachs Communacopia: Ralph de la Vega, AT&T: U-Verse Has 100,000 Customers, Doubled From June - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 19 Sep 2007 07:28 AM PST

Ralph de la Vega, group president of Regional Telecommunications & Entertainment at AT&T (NYSE: T), spent much of his time at Communacopia talking up AT&T’s U-Verse initiative, which now boasts…

Confirmed: Apple To Launch iPhone In UK With O2 In November - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 18 Sep 2007 05:07 AM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has chosen O2 (TEF.MC) to be its mobile operator for the UK launch of its iPhone and will use the retail chain Carphone Warehouse as an additional…

Jobs Caves; Existing iPhone Customers To Get $100 Credit Following Surprise Price Cut - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 06 Sep 2007 12:49 PM PST

Following the surprise announcement yesterday that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was slashing the price of the 8GB iPhone model by 33 percent, Steve Jobs was sanguine about the effect on customers…

AT&T Silences Pearl Jam; Gives ‘Net Neutrality’ Proponents Ammunition - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 09 Aug 2007 04:45 PM PST

AT&T’s (NYSE: T) “content monitor” hit the mute button during part of Pearl Jam’s “Blue Room” Live Lollapalooza Webcast sponsored by the telecom, depriving viewers of some anti-George Bush lyrics—and…

Federal Judge Tosses AT&T A Curve; Rules U-Verse Is Cable Service - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 27 Jul 2007 05:56 PM PST

It may not matter much in the long run but a federal judge in Connecticut ruled this week that AT&T’s (NYSE: T) U-Verse IPTV service meets the definition of a…

Earnings: AT&T Q2 Profits Grow 61 Percent; Revs Up 86.7 Percent - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 24 Jul 2007 05:58 AM PST

Citing growth in wireless and internet subscribers, as well as sales of the iPhone, helped AT&T (NYSE: T) hit its ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth, as Q2 profit…

iPhone: Mossberg: ‘Breakthrough Handheld Computer’; AT&T ‘Drawback’; Pogue: Lives Up To Most Hype - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 26 Jun 2007 04:11 PM PST

The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and assistant Katherine Boehret have just released a detailed review based on two weeks of iPhone use in multiple scenarios across the U.S. The…

Industry Moves: AOL Finally Has New CMO—AT&T Marketer John Burbank - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 13 Jun 2007 06:17 AM PST

Later this morning expect an announcement from AOL that John Burbank, most recently VP of marketing for heavy spender AT&T, is joining the company as chief marketing officer, finally filling…

Without iTunes Account, iPhone Won’t Work As Promised; AT&T Holding Back Service Details - 10 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 12 Jun 2007 10:55 PM PST

Apple is intent on making iTunes indispensable beyond media sales and playback. In update emails Tuesday, Apple (full text) and AT&T warned prospective users the expensive phone they lust for…

Broadband Content Bits: WaBo VOD; Apple; Yahoo OMG; NBC; Bravo; Rocketboom; Univision - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 11 Jun 2007 09:37 PM PST

-- Warner Bros. has expanded its VOD day and date trial...meaning releasing movies on VOD and DVD on the same day. It will begin the trial nationally July 10 with…

AOL Close To Appointing AT&T’s Burbank As CMO - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 29 May 2007 10:38 AM PST

AOL is close to appointing John Burbank, formerly AT&T’s VP of marketing, as its new CMO, OnlineMediaDaily reported. The Time Warner unit sought out Burbank because of his familiarly with…

Industry Moves: AT&T Chief Executive Whitacre To Retire; Stephenson To Be Chairman and CEO - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 27 Apr 2007 12:12 PM PST

AT&T announced today that chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre will retire in early June, with COO Randall Stephenson as his successor. Whitacre, the longest-running telecom top exec, became CEO of…

Earnings: AT&T Q1, Revenues Up 11.2 Percent, Telecom Italia Bid Off - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 24 Apr 2007 06:24 PM PST

AT&T has released its first quarter results (net income was $2.8 billion, up from $1.4 billion in the first quarter of 2006)...the wireless aspects: --Total revenues for AT&T Wireless grew…

AT&T-Yahoo Issue Statement Following Report Partnership Could End Or Be Altered - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 09 Mar 2007 04:47 PM PST

This could be filed under non-denial denial ... AT&T and Yahoo issued a joint statement today responding to “speculation regarding their partnership”—and the results of that speculation, which cost Yahoo…

AT&T-Yahoo Partnership, Up In 2008, Likely Won’t Be The Same—If Extended - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 08 Mar 2007 10:04 PM PST

As the Incredible Hulk of telecoms grows even stronger, AT&T has less reason to continue a co-branding partnership with Yahoo set to expire in April 28, or so contends the…

Mobile And TV Meshing More Often: TWC-Sprint; AT&T Homezone; Verizon-TiVo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Mar 2007 10:00 PM PST

Mobile handsets can be like those transformer toys when it comes to TV—handheld TV set, remote control, remote programmer, programming guide, sometimes all in one. One approach by Time Warner…

AT&T CFO: Micorosoft Is Holding Back U-Verse Rollout; MSFT: ‘Biggest Challenges Behind Us’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 26 Jan 2007 11:58 AM PST

AT&T CFO Rick Lindner told the WSJ that the company is holding back its U-Verse rollout because of problems with Microsoft’s IPTV middleware but tempered that a bit by calling…

AT&T U-Verse Rollout Maintains Slow Pace, Limited Access - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 24 Jan 2007 03:05 PM PST

At the end of the year, someone wondered when I would correct my assertion that AT&T’s U-Verse rollout was extremely limited. I’d love to be wrong about this, seriously, but…

Cingular’s De-branding Into AT&T To Start Monday - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 12 Jan 2007 12:34 PM PST

Cingular, the biggest mobile carrier in U.S., is being renamed AT&T...that is not a secret. But it will start Monday, reports WSJ, two weeks after the merger between AT&T and…

Verizon, AT&T U-verse Look Local For Programming - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 11 Jan 2007 12:21 PM PST

Verizon and AT&T are shoring up their programming experiments to meet local interests. Verizon FiOS subscribers in the Washington, DC area will have an outlet for viewing user-generated videos. The…

AT&T Ramps Up Multi-Platform Ad Selling – But Is It Ready For Prime-Time? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 08 Jan 2007 08:35 AM PST

Now that it has completed the $86 billion purchase of BellSouth, AT&T is looking to solidify its status as the telecom king of the hill by moving aggressively to make…

AT&T Concessions May Ensure FCC Yes Vote For BellSouth Merger - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 28 Dec 2006 09:15 PM PST

It’s like some odd variation on Dorothy’s trip back to Kansas from Oz—the return ticket was always within her own power. Now it looks like the solution to the deadlocked…