10.12.2003
AT&T Wireless Leads In Number Portability Problems
The transition to portable cell phone numbers is working about as well as ... well, your average cell phone. Industrywide, about half of all number transfers have gone awry. AT&T Wireless leads the pack with a 60 percent error rate -- and is also reported to be losing the most customers.Regulations say numbers are supposed to be transferred in a few hours but... |
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03.03.2004
AT&T Wireless Maintains Lead in Number Portability Problems
AT&T Wireless is holding its lead in the number of problems reported with moving departing customers` numbers to new comanies. Since wireless portability began on November 24, 2003, the Federal Communications Commisison (FCC) says that it has received 5,852 informal complaints about wireless local number portability as of February 25, 2004.Most of the... |
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AT&T Adds Parental Controls To Mobile Phones
AT&T• Slamming• Long Distance • Local• Wireless• Broadband• Telemarketers---News• AT&T Agrees to Refund Some Ringtone Charges• States Asked to Probe AT&T U-Verse Explosions• AT&T Exits Pay Phone Business• AT&T Changes Contract Policy• AT&T Changes Terms Of Service After Outcry•... |
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AT&T Agrees to Refund Some Ringtone Charges
AT&T• Slamming• Long Distance • Local• Wireless• Broadband• Telemarketers---News• AT&T Agrees to Refund Some Ringtone Charges• States Asked to Probe AT&T U-Verse Explosions• AT&T Exits Pay Phone Business• AT&T Changes Contract Policy• AT&T Changes Terms Of Service After Outcry•... |
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19.03.2007
AT&T Blocks Calls To Competing Conference Call Service
Net Neutrality• Internet Providers Ponder Bandwidth Limits For Heavy Users• Comcast, Cox Caught Blocking BitTorrent• Will Antitrust Law Save Net Neutrality?• Few Are Neutral in Net Neutrality Battles• Net Neutrality Supporters Testify• Comcast Blocks Public From FCC Hearing• Congress Gets Net Neutrality Legislation•... |
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AT&T Charging Fire Victims For Toasted Satellite Dish
AT&T’s contract means what it says, and there are few, if any, extenuating circumstances that can change it. A San Diego, California couple, who lost their home and everything in it this week’s raging brush fires, learned that the hard way.Story continues below videoMatt and Dannell Azola rushed back from their honeymoon cruise when they heard their... |
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23.06.2006
AT&T Declares Consumers` Personal Data "Corporate Property"
• Big Brother Hitching A Ride in California?• GAO: Government Can Do More to Protect Personal Data• US Search Agrees to Stop Selling Private Credit Data• TSA Site Left Passenger Data Exposed To ID Theft• Connecticut Governor Wants `Opt Out` For Online Directories• Verizon Gave Customer Data To Government Without Court... |
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03.11.2003
AT&T Faces $780,000 Do-Not-Call Fine
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to fine AT&T $780,000 for violating do-not-call provisions that have been in effect for more than ten years. The fine is for a long-existing but widely ignored rule that requires individual companies to delete the names of consumers who specifically ask a company to stop calling them. AT&T should be able to... |
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14.01.2004
AT&T Hiking Minimum Fees on Three Phone Services
Consumers will pay more for phone servicefrom the largest U.S. long-distance company. AT&T is markingthe 20th year of its divestiture with several hikes in minimumusage requirements.Subscribers to AT&T`s 5¢ eWeekends Plan will be billed aminimum of $5 per month before fees and taxes, startingMarch 1, 2004. Currently there is no minimum usage requirementon the 5¢... |
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29.12.2006
AT&T Offers Net Neutrality Concessions To Win Merger Approval
Broadband Access• Report: Metered Broadband Bad For Consumers, Businesses• FCC Votes to Punish Comcast for Content Blocking• Comcast Tries to Polish Its Image• Communications Industry Urges Congress to Act on Broadband• Comcast Cuts Deal With Vonage on Internet Traffic• Court Upholds FCC`s Video Rules• Report: U.S. Broadband... |
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