Like T-Mobile in the December, AT&T is also unveiling Sharable Rollover Data for its Mobile Share Value® Subscribers which will be effective from January 25, 2015. Hopefully, other carriers will have some offer soon for their subscribers to be competitive enough to meet the demand of their customers.
User privacy on the Internet has become a hot button issue in both politics and technology in recent years. Last month, some security researchers discovered that AT&T had been tracking numbers to the web traffic coming from their customers’ phones, in order to keep an eye on their online habits. But AT&T has completely denied the allegation.
If you travel frequently, you may have undergone the ordeal of losing your luggage at an airport. AT&T aims to end such issues once and for all with a new smart tracker which is able to keep you updated about the location of your luggage in real time.
We have seen many acquisitions in the tech world over the past few years, some of them raking in billions of dollars. But reports have it that AT&T is all set to trump them by acquiring the pay TV mammoth DirectTV in a $50 billion deal.
AT&T has been aggressively pushing out data plans and offers for its users. The carrier has now announced that all its Mobile Share customers will get free, unlimited text, picture and video messaging starting from Feb 28.
T-Mobile may not be among the major US carriers but the company sure does make enough noise to hit a lot of headlines. It has now released a press release mock-appreciating AT&T, together with fake quotes from AT&T CEO.
In the last year or so, T-Mobile has emerged as an unconventional carrier, revealing excellent offers and chipping away at the market share of other carriers. AT&T has now decided to fight back by offering up to $450 to customers who would switch from T-Mobile to AT&T.
Premium text messages have long been used by third-party vendors to trick customers into signing up, leading to piling mobile bills. This has finally resulted in action from wireless carriers, with the likes of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile agreeing to stop charging customers for most premium SMS (PSMS).