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AT&T Confirms $86bn Acquisition of Time Warner
Time Warner is a mammoth media organisation which comprises of HBO, Warner Brothers, CNN and much more. As I’m sure you’re aware, these divisions are responsive for some of the most popular programmes including Game of Thrones and the Batman movies. Recently, the telecommunication giant AT&T made an astronomical bid…
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Latest Report Suggests AT&T Could Halt Samsung Note 7 Sales
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 launch can only be described as a disaster and the device now has such a poor reputation among consumers. The isolated cases of units setting ablaze are difficult to ignore and every piece of media coverage which discusses a new case weakens Samsung’s position even further.…
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AT&T Could Stream Your Games and Anime on its New Network
When it comes to watching your favourite shows, there are a variety of options. Catch up TV gives you the option to watch and stream your favourite shows online while online championships and games are shown on gaming sites and through the games themselves with thousands of users and gamers…
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AT&T Will No Longer Let You Pay A Fraction Of Your Phones Cost Upfront
First it was pay as you go, with people topping up an amount and fearing that text telling them that they would soon be unable to text. Then came the contracts, offering you the ability to pay a monthly fee in order to get a set amount of minutes and…
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Apple Sued For Data Consuming “Bug”
Apple is known for a lot of things but none more than their iPhones, for better or worse. In this case, it’s again for the worse. Apple has had some problems regarding their software and just like almost a year ago when it was revealed that Siri shared your conversations with other companies,…
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AT&T Says NO to the FCC’s $100 Million Throttling Fine
If you read about it, AT&T just got fined last month for allegedly throttling customers with ‘unlimited’ data plan. To sum it up, the FCC saw that AT&T had been “severely” slowing down users while not telling those users about the caps placed on their speed. So, they decided to…
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Here’s How AT&T’s Phone Network Looked Like in 1891
American multinational telecommunications corporation AT&T is currently the second-largest provider of mobile telephone in the USA as well as the country’s largest fixed telephone provider. However, back in 1891, quite a few years after the telephone was invented, the company was at the beginning of its journey, and this map of its network…
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NETGEAR Partners With AT&T on Prepaid 4G LTE Mobile WiFi Hotspot
NETGEAR is mostly known for the local area network (LAN) devices, but they also got a range of mobile routers for people who also want great connection options on the go. They have now partnered with AT&T that will sell the NETGEAR AirCard 779S Mobile Hotspot under the AT&T Unite…
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AT&T Patents Fast Lane for File-Sharing Traffic
Either AT&T knows something we don’t or they’ve been awarded one of the most pointless – yet useful – patents so far. The new patent granted to AT&T is for a ‘fast lane’ designed to speed up BitTorrent and P2P file transfers while decreasing the impact they have on the infrastructure.…
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CNN Name T-Mobile Tech Company of the Year
News network CNN has declared T-Mobile as its Tech Company of the Year for 2014. Faced with stiff competition from Apple and Microsoft, CNN posits that “no other tech company shook up its entire industry the way that T-Mobile (TMUS) did this year.” In 2013, mobile telecom provider T-Mobile shifted its business model,…
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FCC Warn: ISPs Will Sue Over Net Neutrality, Regardless
America’s ISPs will behave litigiously no matter what net neutrality laws are introduced, warns FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Wheeler told reporters that lawsuits are unavoidable, explaining why the FCC have been so cautious in their net neutrality contemplations. He explained, “Look, the big dogs are going to sue, regardless of…
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AT&T Halt Fibre Investment Until Net Neutrality is Resolved
First, President Obama voiced his support for net neutrality, asking the FCC to apply Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to protect broadband as a utility. The ISPs responded by threatening to sue if the regulation was implemented. Then, the FCC puffed out its chest, asserting its autonomy…
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ISPs Threaten to Sue the FCC if they Enforce Net Neutrality
In response to US President Barack Obama’s statement supporting net neutrality, and asking the FCC to reclassify internet service as a utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, American ISPs have come out fighting, threatening to take legal action against the FCC if they agree to Obama’s plan.…
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Free WiFi Is Best at Starbucks and McDonald’s According to Study
We’ve all been in that situation, stuck somewhere just out of reach of your 3G signal and you are so desperate to get on the internet whilst on the go, you have to connect to “Free WiFi”. The horror! Anyway, free WiFi usually sucks 9 times out of 10, mostly…
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Less Buffering on Netflix for Customers on AT&T
Do you use Netfilx? Are you with AT&T? If you said yes to both of them then your Netflix experience should get better. Netflix and AT&T have signed a peering deal designed to reduced video buffering on the media streaming service. There is no news as of yet regarding the…
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