AT+T News

Wednesday, July 30th

• Broadband Adoption Slows Among U.S. Providers

  Broadband adoption among U.S. consumers seems to be slowing, with the three largest broadband providers in the U.S. posting the lowest subscriber increases in years during the second quarter of 2008....

Thursday, April 3rd

• AT&T Launches U-verse VoIP Service in Austin and San Diego

  AT&T is bringing its U-verse VoIP service to Austin, Texas and San Diego, California, paving the way for triple-play (voice/data/video) bundles in the cities....

Tuesday, February 5th

• Will AT&T's Proposed Internet Filter Slow Down VoIP?

  It started during a small panel discussion on media piracy on the floor of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas in early January 2008. James Cicconi, a senior executive vice president for AT&T, casually announced that the company had been planning for some time to filter the Internet at the packet level, to snoop out pirated content....

Tuesday, October 30th

• AT&T Announces Wholesale VoIP Service Expansion

  At the Fall VON 2007 conference, AT&T Inc. today announced the expanded availability of AT&T Voice Over IP Connect Service (AVOICS). AVOICS is the flagship wholesale Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offer for U.S. service providers that want IP-based connectivity to AT&T's global IP network for long distance call termination. For more than 10 years, AT&T has provided wholesale VoIP solutions, which address the U.S. domestic and international termination needs of service providers with a variety of connectivity options....

Monday, October 1st

• AT&T Set To Include Internet Telephony In Product Bundles

  AT&T plans by year-end to package its fledgling Internet TV service with an Internet phone service....

Tuesday, March 7th

• Critics Argue AT&T/BellSouth Threatens Net Neutrality and VoIP

  Even though the ink on the merger agreement between AT&T and BellSouth is barely dry, consumer groups are already calling for regulators to block the proposed $67 billion deal, characterizing it as a detriment to net neutrality and VoIP....

• AT&T-Bellsouth merger likely to get Justice Dept. approval

  The Justice Department likely will approve AT&T Inc.'s $67 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. without demanding any major antitrust concessions, analysts said Monday....

Monday, March 6th

• How the AT&T deal could affect various services

  AT&T Inc.’s planned acquisition of BellSouth Corp. comes at a complex time in telecommunications. The traditional telephone business is under assualt by cellular and Internet-based calling, and the distinction between local and long-distance phone service is fading. In response, phone companies are investing heavily to start selling subscription TV and bolster their wireless and Internet services....

Sunday, March 5th

• AT&T to buy BellSouth for $67B in stock

  The proposed purchase, announced Sunday, also goes a long way toward resurrecting the old Ma Bell telephone system, which was broken apart in 1984....

Tuesday, January 24th

• AT&T, Avaya Form VoIP Partnership

  AT&T Inc. and Avaya Inc., a maker of telecommunications equipment, on Tuesday announced a partnership aimed at helping businesses migrate to voice-over-IP technology....

Monday, January 23rd

• AT&T IP Voice Service Receives TMC 2005 VoIP Product of the Year Innovation Award

  AT&T Inc. announced today that TMC has selected AT&T as the recipient of its 2005 VoIP Product of the Year Award for AT&T Voice Dynamic Network Applications(SM) (DNA) service. This most recent award is the fourth such recognition bestowed on AT&T VoIP services for market leadership in 2005....

Tuesday, December 6th

• AT&T Wins $1.8M VOIP Deal

  AT&T will provide a global Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) to support Littelfuse’s day-to-day operations. The network, based on AT&T’s industry-leading Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) platform, also provides the data communications backbone for Littelfuse’s planned migration from traditional phone services to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. ...

Monday, October 31st

• FCC approves SBC-AT&T merger

  The Federal Communications Commission approved the proposed $16-billion merger of SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp., clearing the final federal regulatory hurdle for the pending deal....

Tuesday, October 11th

• AT&T Internet call service to require location

  AT&T Corp. said on Tuesday it would suspend Internet phone service for subscribers who fail to keep their location up to date when they move around with the mobile service....

• AT&T solves VoIP's 911 issue

  AT&T says it's solved a problem that has dogged Internet-based phone service: how to provide emergency 911 to people who use VoIP — short for Voice over Internet Protocol — on the road....

• USAToday, you are wrong: CallVantage Heartbeat does *not* solve VoIP E911

  The AT&T CallVantage p.r. machine is in high gear about a new AT&T CallVantage nomadic E911 solution called Heartbeat. Today's USAToday even has a feature story about it. AT&T Solves VoIPs 911 Issue, the article is slugged....

Tuesday, August 2nd

• AT&T-Intrado E911 Deal Sign of Things to Come in VOIP World

  Last week AT&T Corp. announced its selection of emergency solutions provider Intrado Inc. to provide some of its CallVantage subscribers with E911 services. Intrado will deploy its V9-1-1SM Mobility Service so that "nomadic users," whose telephone area codes do not correspond to the local rate center, will still have their 911 calls routed to the appropriate public system answering point....

Monday, July 11th

• AT&T Aggressively Rolling Out VoIP E-9-1-1 Service

  AT&T announced today that it has begun introducing Enhanced 9-1-1 service (E-911) to its AT&T CallVantage® Service users in a phased deployment to be largely completed later this Summer....

Tuesday, May 24th

• AT&T's CallVantage: Excellent Phone Service on the Cheap

  AT&T's VoIP service came with major installation hassles, but offered landline-like voice quality, most of the time....

Friday, March 18th

• Why CallVantage is not taking off

  When news broke that AT&T divulged to the SEC its embarrassing subscriber figures (53K) for its Internet phone service, CallVantage, bloggers took notice...

Thursday, March 17th

• AT&T Net phone disappoints

  AT&T's Internet phone service, CallVantage, had a paltry 53,000 subscribers at the end of 2004--a lesson in how millions of dollars in marketing and a well-known brand name don't always guarantee success....

Wednesday, March 16th

• AT&T to begin pre-WiMax trial

  AT&T will begin testing its wireless broadband service to two corporate customers, calling it a precursor to its eventual offering of the WiMax technology, the company said on Sunday....

Saturday, February 12th

• AT&T Begins Marketing VoIP to the SOHO Community

Tuesday, February 8th

• AT&T VoIP Campaign Targets SOHO Buyers

Thursday, February 3rd

• AT&T CallVantage Service Wins PC Magazine 'Editors' Choice' Award

Sunday, January 30th

• The last call of an American legend

Thursday, September 2nd

• AT&T Boosts Its Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts With Emergency Communications, Prepaid Phone Cards, Calling Centers and IP-Based Networks

  AT&T announced today additional efforts to strengthen the emergency communications infrastructure and calling capabilities throughout the hurricane stricken Gulf Coast community.
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