Credit Suisse Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin thinks we can expect Apple’s iPhone to remain exclusive to AT&T for an additional 12-18 months, long past some people’s expectations (and recent rumors). Not only will it remain exclusive, Chaplin says, but the delay will have a major negative impact on Verizon, causing him to lower his rating [...]
Fox News is reporting that AT&T outbid all other GSM providers in offering those reasonable $14.99 and $29.99 data plans for the iPad, and while Verizon and Apple are still discussing both the iPhone and iPad, there’s still nothing approaching an agreement in place. What about all those rumors of Verizon getting the iPhone like, [...]
AT&T has announced that it’s granting an optimized version of SlingPlayer Mobile [$29.99 - iTunes link] permission to send TV over their 3G network, something that up until now has been expressly banned under AT&T terms of service. “Just as we’ve worked with Sling Media in this instance, we look forward to collaborating with other [...]
Hot on the heels of Apple’s explosive Q1 2010 results come AT&T’s Q4 2009 financials, and once again the iPhone helped its exclusive US carrier paint a rosy picture that includes 3.1 million new activations. AT&T’s fourth-quarter integrated-device growth included 3.1 million iPhone activations, the second highest quarterly total to date, with more than a [...]
A mystery source at AT&T is allegedly reporting that AT&T is informing regional executives on an individual basis of upcoming changes to AT&T’s data network. The changes are supposedly to increase the networks ability to handle large increases in traffic that they expect to see following the release of some “unannounced” devices and future ones [...]
AT&T has responded to Verizon’s latest commercials that depicts their network as small and to put it nicely, garbage. As you can see above AT&T takes some shots of their own at Big Red. This particular commercial is just one of a series that will begin airing tonight. AT&T not only mentions a few valid [...]
AT&T and Verizon plan on rolling out 4G networks, in part because of the data demand of the iPhone, in 2010-2011. Reports have estimated the cost at $1.78 Billion dollars (in the US) in the first year alone, making it one of the most expensive upgrades in telelcommunications history.Costs in Europe and the Middle East [...]
Boy Genius is reporting that AT&T MMS seems to be down for some users in some states, and what’s more: a quick call to AT&T’s customer care line revealed that there is a known latency issue with MMS in all states with no estimated time of repair. So how about it? Are you experiencing any [...]
Not that any of you AT&T customers really need the reminder. Regardless, the wait is almost over folks, AT&T is finally flipping the MMS switch for all of their iPhone customers this Friday, September 25th. Sure, this day marked in your calendars but would any of you like to take bets on whether or not [...]
Most AT&T iPhone owners have been waiting for any word from their beloved carrier regarding the activation of MMS and as it turns out, AT&T just notified us personally to make sure we pass on the good word that MMS will be available on the iPhone on September 25th. The date is September 25th, which [...]
Has AT&T been delaying the US launch of iPhone 3.0’s MMS and tethering services due to concerns about their network being able to handle it? Um, yeah, that would have been our guess… The New York Times, however, states it as fact: [AT&T] has also delayed bandwidth-heavy features like multimedia messaging, or text messages containing [...]
Another point worth pulling out from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s recent research note about Apple, this one regarding AT&T’s iPhone-exclusivity deal: Munster doesn’t see it lasting much beyond this year. Apple (AAPL) is slowly transitioning the countries in which it sells the iPhone to a multicarrier model and the United States is at the [...]
Many iPhone owners will tell you that the biggest problem with the device is the AT&T network. The network has a frequent habit of dropping calls and lacking 3G coverage in all but the largest cities. The poor network quality has led many iPhone users to complain about missing features like MMS and the inability [...]
