AT&T Plan Mixes Wireless, Land Lines -- Merged Company to Charge Monthly Fee for Package of Long- Distance Calls
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By Daniel Connolly danielconnolly@commercialappealcom  Telecommunications firm AT&T is offering a new nationwide calling plan that charges customers a hefty monthly fee in exchange for a package of long-distance calls on land line telephones and cell phones.
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The company's $41 billion merger with AT&T Wireless poses it with the challenge of stitching together networks, billing systems and customer-care operations without inconveniencing customers.-The Washington Post
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Voice over IP calls are getting cheaper - Vonage and AT&amp;T both announced lower monthly charges late last week. AT&amp;T said it would reduce its monthly charge by five dollars to $30 a month for unlimited local and long distance calls in Canada and the US.
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Sprint and Nextel Communications have signed a merger agreement. The combined company, which will adopt the name Sprint Nextel, will serve nearly 40 million wireless customers.
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U.S. phone company AT&T Inc.   said on Wednesday it began marketing its AT&T Homezone, a  long-awaited service that combines high-speed Internet and  satellite television in one set-top box.
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The merger of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications, unveiled last week in a deal valued at more than $35 billion, is likely to spur deployment of broadband wireless services as three giant
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Cellular service competitors followed Verizon with unlimited monthly voice plans for $99.
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By Justin Hyde WASHINGTON  - AT&T Corp.  and Internet telephoneprovider Vonage said on Thursday they were cutting prices fortheir residential Internet calling services by $5 per month,the strongest signs yet of a price war in the nascent market.
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AT&T said Tuesday that calling plans for the iPhone will start at $59.99 USD per month and include unlimited data, 200 text messages, rollover, mobile-to-mobile, and Apple's "visual voicemail."
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The proposed merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications could face a rocky start as the companies work to run and eventually merge two wireless technologies without breaking the bank or losing customers.
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Cingular Wireless said it has completed its previously announced merger with AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc., creating the US&#39;s biggest wireless carrier with the largest digital voice and data network in the country.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 27--How much a plan costs   Apple and AT&T announced Tuesday that the iPhone's wireless service plans will cost between $60 and $220 per month and include unlimited Internet and e-mail data, 200 text messages and at least 450 voice minutes.
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Long distance is dead. The last of the big-three long-distance carriers, MCI Inc., yesterday agreed to a $6.7 billion takeover by Verizon Communications Inc. The move comes two weeks after AT&amp;T Corp. agreed to sell out for $16 billion to SBC Communications Inc. Meanwhile, Sprint Corp. is taking a hard turn into a chiefly wireless future through a planned $36 ...
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AT&amp;T Corp., the matriarch of the modern telephone business, is close to being acquired by one of its progeny, SBC Communications Inc. , in a $16 billion deal that would create the nation's largest telecommunications company.
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Sprint Corp. and AT&amp;T Corp. have agreed to pay a total of nearly $1.5 million to settle government charges that they denied or limited phone service to hundreds of thousands of customers
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The firm&#39;s new Internet calling plan is cheaper than traditional phone service and has more features. AT&amp;T has followed its recent announcement that it&#39;s not marketing new residential telephone service by
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AT&T Corp.  and Internet telephone  provider Vonage said on Thursday they were cutting prices for  their residential Internet calling services by $5 per month,  the strongest signs yet of a price war in the nascent market.