AT&T to raise broadband prices
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The $5 price hike will affect the states where it acquired new customers through its buyout of BellSouth.
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Takes one for the union AT&amp;T is to return 2,000 outsourced DSL broadband support jobs, based in the US and overseas, to its payroll, following a union agreement over pay rates.â¦
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Time Warner Cable will try selling consumers broadband service based on how much bandwidth they use, a move that could turn the home broadband pricing model in the U.S. on its head.
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AT&amp;T Corp., the No. 4 U.S. telephone company, said on Thursday its fourth-quarter earnings increased as it cut costs through slashing jobs and lower equipment expenses.
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NEW YORK -- AT&amp;T Inc. is offering its broadband DSL subscribers a new service where they can watch live cable TV channels on any computer connected to the Internet at home or on the road for an extra $20 per month.
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(InfoWorld) - AT&T this year will introduce new features to its VPN service and expand high-speed connections to additional countries as part of more than $750 million of investments in its global business network. The expansion comes as network demand grows worldwide, partly as a result of increasing video traffic, and as rivalÂ Verizon Communications rolls out new offeringsÂ through its Verizon Business unit. AT&T this year will let enterprises set up special VPN routing groups to help them establish extranets with partners and customers, said Bill Archer, senior vice president of product management. It will also introduce new class-of-service capabilities, which are used to distinguish different types of traffic. AT&T will also provide a more efficient access method for its MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) VPN outside the United States in the next few months. Until now, unless an overseas customer had a fat pipe of 155Mbps or more to AT&T, they had to use Frame Relay or ATMÂ to get to the VPN. Now they can use PPP, a more efficient protocol, at any speed. Because it has less overhead, PPP means better use of available bandwidth, according to AT&T. Meanwhile, AT&T will introduce billing plans that in part are based on usage rather than a flat monthly rate for a certain level of bandwidth, Archer said. Following its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T now fully owns Cingular, the largest U.S. mobile operator by subscribers. This year it will start down a long path toward converged wired and wireless services, introducing collaborative support between the two units. If a customer reports a wireless problem to the support center for AT&T's wire-line business network, that support center will log the problem and forward the call to the wireless support group, Archer said. Evenutally, there will be one support center for both types of services. A single contract and bill for wired and wireless also will come over time, he said. The carrier will expand the reach of its high-speed networks significantly in 2007. By the end of the year, businesses will be able to reach the MPLS VPN via Ethernet in 31 countries, up fromÂ 8 at the end of 2006. DSL access will be available in 34 countries, up from 19. Satellite or private-line access, needed in more remote locations, will be available in 51 countries, up from 19. The fast-growing markets of Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America will be a focus for investment this year, as well as France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada, AT&T said. The carrier plans MPLS network nodes in Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam, as well as three more in India. Having a node in the country lowers customers' costs, Archer said. Multinational enterprises want to be able to connect to a service provider's network the same way everywhere they do business, said Frank Dzubeck, president of the consultancy Telecommunications Network Architects in Washington, D.C. Carriers are expanding their networks to meet that need, but they are less motivated to combine wired and wireless services under one plan because they don't see a financial advantage to that, Dzubeck said.
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Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s on Wednesday raised its ratings on AT&amp;T Wireless Services following its acquisition by Cingular Wireless, a joint venture of SBC Communications Inc.
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AT&T announced today that its U-verse fiber-to-the-node Internet service will begin offering more bandwidth and higher speeds to top-tier subscribers, and free Wi-Fi hotspot connectivity to all of AT&T's broadband customers.
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Blog: AT&T rolls out its bargain-basement deal for DSL, looking to snare new broadband users with its $10 per month subscription price.
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InfoWorld - Time Warner Cable will try selling consumers broadband service based on how much bandwidth they use, a move that could turn the home broadband pricing model in the U.S. on its head.
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Rates for some AT&T Corp. prepaid  telephone cards, widely popular among U.S. military families  trying to stay connected, could go up about 20 percent under a  plan being considered by U.S. communications regulators, the  company said on Friday.
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Starbucks has upgraded its Wi-Fi offering from a tall to a venti, switching partners from T-Mobile USA to AT&amp;T in a deal that will mean free coffee-shop wireless for millions of U.S. broadband subscribers.The chain&#39;s network of hotspots, the best-known in the U.S., covers more than 7,000 company-owned stores. Users of AT&amp;T Broadband and U-verse DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) services will get free access to the networks, and the carrier will soon extend benefits to AT&amp;T Wireless customers as well, according to a news release. AT&amp;T business customers with remote-access subscriptions will be able to buy unlimited, flat-rate access at any Starbucks location.AT&amp;T had 14.2 million lines of DSL in service at the end of last year. Its wireless arm has about 70 million subscribers. T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Germany&#39;s Deutsche Telekom, said it had 28.7 million subscribers at year&#39;s end.Although 3G (third-generation) cellular networks are nearing typical wired broadband speeds, Wi-Fi hotspots in key locations such as airports, hotels and cafes remain an attractive option for people who need high-speed connectivity on the road. T-Mobile has provided the Starbucks networks as part of its national hotspot service for several years, with a variety of paid plans including US$6 for one hour, $9.99 for a day and $29.99 per month with an annual agreement. Prices under AT&amp;T will be slightly lower, including $3.99 for two hours and $19.99 per month.But the deal also opens up a whole new customer base for the hotspots: Starbucks customers with an active Starbucks stored-value card will get two hours of free access per day. All that&#39;s needed to keep a card active is to have money stored on it and to buy something with it at least once a month, said Starbucks spokeswoman Bridget Baker. Starbucks employees will also get free access.AT&amp;T will take over the networks market by market, starting in the next few months and finishing by the end of the year, the companies said. Under a roaming agreement to be implemented by March 31, T-Mobile subscribers will also be able to use the AT&amp;T Starbucks networks, Baker said.The deal significantly expands AT&amp;T&#39;s network of hotspots, giving it 17,000 U.S. sites (about 70,000 worldwide) and adding a popular Web-surfing location to its lineup, which today includes McDonald&#39;s restaurants, Barnes &amp; Noble bookstores and some hotels and airports. It builds on an existing relationship in which AT&amp;T has provided back-end networks for Starbucks stores for more than 10 years, Baker said. The carrier will provide Starbucks an enterprise-class network with increased bandwidth and redundancy, according to the release.The prospect of high-speed access at Starbucks should help AT&amp;T attract new DSL customers and hold onto existing ones, telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan wrote in a commentary on the deal.&quot;The customer wins because they get to take advantage of money saving bundles, and AT&amp;T win&#39;s because it keeps customers happy which means hanging on to the customer in an increasingly competitive marketplace, and Starbucks win&#39;s because it expands their digital entertainment platform and gives customers more reasons to spend time in the stores,&quot; Kagan wrote.
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Small net firms warn they could be hit hard by BT's decision to raise prices for business broadband.
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AT&T is expanding its 3G footprint. The telecommunications giant announced Wednesday an expansion of its third-generation wireless broadband service to more than 80 cities in the U.S. before the end of this year.
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AT&T Inc. said Wednesday it will make its 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots free to nearly all of its broadband Internet customers starting early next week.
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The M.T.A. approved a plan for fare increases that will raise the price of a monthly fare card by $6, to $76, next year.
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By Nichole Monroe Bell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 22--AT&T has quietly rolled out a $10 high-speed Internet plan that's the cheapest it has offered -- but it comes with strings attached, and tracking it down can be tricky.