On Thursday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings came out in favor of stronger net neutrality rules. Hastings supports a version of net neutrality that would help Netflix stream to customers without constant buffering - and without Netflix having to pay extra to internet service providers. But the root problem for Netflix and customers isn't the "toll" that Netflix recently had to pay for direct access - it's America's bandwidth scarcity.
Two major United States-based telecommunications companies have been named "Leaders" in Gartner Inc.'s "2014 Magic Quadrant for Global Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP)" report.
More big wireless companies are stepping up their prepaid offerings, and AT&T is one of them. Its acquisition of the country's largest independent prepaid wireless carrier, Leap Wireless, was approved on Thursday, giving AT&T a new tool in its fight against T-Mobile.
A lot of the pain in your wireless bill is being diminished these days, no matter what carrier you use. Perhaps in response to the threat of cheap, internet-based messaging services like WhatsApp, and definitely in competition with each other, AT&T and T-Mobile have just sweetened their deals.
The Walt Disney Company announced Friday that it will halt charity funding toward the Boy Scouts of America in 2015 because of the national organization's membership policy that bans leaders from being openly gay, CNN reported.
AT&T's HACEMOS, a Hispanic/Latino Association hosted its annual National High Technology Day across the U.S. on Thursday to help get Latino and other minority high school students excited about careers in high-tech fields.
As phones, cars, and even kitchen appliances get smarter, so will one other thing: cities. Although smart cities are still a ways off in the future, premier wireless and communications network AT&T and tech firm IBM announced a partnership Tuesday that should surely help speed up the process.
T-Mobile and CEO John Legere have launched an all-out assault on the mobile wireless industry in the past year, with its industry-shaking "Uncarrier" initiatives and competitive pricing, but for Legere, AT&T has always been a special target. So Legere is probably pleased that T-Mobile has won a court decision prohibiting an AT&T subsidiary from using its color scheme.
AT&T has been under pressure from upstart wireless company T-Mobile for the past year and has had to respond on several occasions - not always in the most graceful way. Now AT&T is showing it can not only respond to T-Mobile, but put pressure on the industry with its newly announced Mobile Share restructuring.
