Laptop users subscribing to AT&T’s 3G wireless data service can now also get free Wi-Fi at any of the company’s 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. AT&T announced the new perk Tuesday for Laptop Connect customers who pay $60 or more a month for the company’s cellular data service that operates on its HSDPA and [...]

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On Tuesday, the Rural Cellular Association, a group of more than 80 small and rural wireless providers, filed a petition with the FCC to investigate and adopt rules that would prohibit exclusivity arrangements between wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers. In its petition the group said that these arrangements were unfair and stifled customer choice. [...]

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Only hours after posting information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T’s public wireless hotspots, the company pulled all references to the service from its Web site. By 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, the page dedicated to AT&T’s subscriber plans for Apple’s iPhone had been stripped of all mention of Wi-Fi hotspot access. [...]

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Word has it that, following an internal message to all AT&T Mobility employees encouraging them to refrain from taking leave between June 15 and July 12, this will be the anticipated hard selling period for the new Apple 3G iPhone. Apparently a similar message went out when the first iPhone hit the markets. We will [...]

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Yesterday some 7,000 Starbucks stores switched over to AT&T for Internet access. And that means that some 12 million AT&T DSL and U-Verse subscribers get free Wi-Fi access. Not to mention all the users at other AT&T hotspots. And AT&T has decided to extend the offer to iPhone owners also.This is a nice bonus for [...]

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AT&T is reported to be preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of the new iPhone, an 8-gigabit-memory and a 16-gigabit-memory model with price tags widely expected to be [...]

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IDG News Service reports that Telecom giant AT&T announced Friday that it plans to lay off 1.5% of its employees, mostly management, in an effort to streamline its operations. This effectively means that more that 4500 employees will be laid off. The company began notifying the affected employees on Friday, and gave them a 60-day [...]

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Communications giant AT&T has announced that it has developed the beta version of its own browser, which it has named Pogo. The browser, not yet released to the public, is based on Mozilla and with 3D technology from Vizible. Pogo only works with Windows XP SP2 and with Windows Vista. It needs a 1.6GHz processor [...]

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