AT&T

It was only a matter of time before someone in the public eye got upset about the new Early Termination Fees from Verizon. There have been discussions on Lockergnome about the changes in the ETFs, and a few things were brought to light.
The first is that the higher $350 ETF only applies to more advanced [...]

I have generally believed, and expressed here, that government help is needed for this nation to become a leader once again in the area of information access and transfer. I happen to subscribe to the theory that there are certain things too large for the individual to undertake, and that the nation sometimes needs the [...]

Dementia seems to have set in. All of that show during the last presidential campaign, where his mother was brought around, ostensibly revealing that long life and, more importantly, clear thought well into old age, runs in the family, was obviously subterfuge. He is clearly not in full control of his faculties.
In a story on [...]

The one we have seems to be butting up against the limits imposed by the large carriers that refuse to put out the dollars needed to expand as needed. A blurb in slashdot asks why it should be that the large carriers (telcos and cable companies) have the power to shape the internet, instead of [...]

No, this is not a slam on the iPhone, or Apple. I am a fan of both; if there was a way to get a an iPhone with support, I’d have one.
Unfortunately, Mr. Jobs screwed the pooch on his choice of providers to align with, as AT&T has been, and perhaps always will be, the [...]

It’s out now. We can see the unvarnished truth. The entire story of how the nation that invented the internet (no matter who you give the greatest credit to) became the land of low speed, and lower penetration by population, than other countries, once considered backwards.
from Betanews
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better [...]

We seem to be on the verge of the same debate that seemed to be over just a short time ago. You know, the one where one side states that unlimited data plans are going the way of the dodo, and the other side  says that innovation will be stifled if the plans change, to [...]

Though we probably should not be surprised, just a few hours after the FCC Chairman announced that net neutrality would be the law of the land, there was an uprising from AT&T, and several Republican lawmakers.
In the best Craig Ferguson image you can conjure up, “Coincidence?” “I think not!”
You can say I am simply jumping [...]

As anyone who has been reading me for a while knows, I used to work for Radio Shack for a time, managing three different stores in Southern California. I worked there during the time that Len Roberts was the president of the company, and before it was revealed that Dave Edmondson was a long time [...]

Several of the usual places have had stories chronicling the problems with the AT&T network, and also the many problems with the iPhone on that network. The stories are numerous, and many are anecdotal, possibly apocryphal, in nature, but are so prevalent that they must be acknowledged.
As someone who has had a cell phone since [...]

The United States District Court, Southern District of New York says yes. Strangely, AT&T and the Electronic Frontier Foundation say no. As the article on Ars Technica states, it is very odd indeed when the EFF and AT&T agree upon anything.
On Wednesday EFF called the move “outlandish” and “a ploy to squeeze more money out [...]

It’s amazing how many people like the same things, yet you might otherwise not know it. I was reading an article by Paul Murphy, from ZDNet, and see that he thinks that NCIS is a great program. I do also, but I have never analyzed why. I like Mark Harmon, but I don’t really identify [...]

Just reported on ZDNet is that Apple is talking to Verizon about …(wait for it, though you already know!) producing an iPhone!
Is this some great news or what! A truly nice phone on the very best network. Sounds like a marriage made in bean counter heaven to me. The stock price is rising as I [...]

As if the economy wasn’t enough a problem, now, after it was uncovered that SMS text messaging was a no cost option for cellular providers, and we have been paying for something that is 100% profitable for them, information has been released stating that the rates are going up.
from BetaNews
At the CTIA Wireless show in [...]

After seeing the article on ZDNet about the RIAA, and the cooperation by AT&T, I remembered back in the bad old days of the Bush era, when AT&T was also the only one to bend us over for the NSA’s warrantless searches of our data. Is it any different now? AT&T seems to forget that [...]