AT&T Stories for 2019

AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time 54
SMS Replacement is Exposing Users To Text, Call Interception Thanks To Sloppy Telecos 32
AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices 15
AT&T Promises Low-Band 5G for 5 Cities in Weeks, 15 by Early 2020 35
AT&T Switches Customers To More Expensive Plans Without Asking Them First 105
A Ton of People Received Text Messages Overnight That Were Originally Sent on Valentine's Day 82
AT&T Users Whose 'Unlimited Data' Was Throttled Get $60 Million In Refunds 44
HBO Max Will Reportedly Get a Cheaper, Ad-Supported Tier In 2021 12
Man Sues AT&T, Saying He Lost $1.8 Million In Cryptocurrency With SIM Card Hack 41
The Four Major Carriers Finally Agree To Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard 117
Is AT&T Hiding A Widespread Voicemail Outage? 70
AT&T Raises Prices 7% By Making Its Customers Pay AT&T's Property Taxes 69
Carriers Want To Hide Detailed 5G Maps From FCC and Public 40
AT&T To Sell Puerto Rico Business As It Looks To Pay Down Debt 15
AT&T Says Customers Can't Sue the Company For Selling Location Data To Bounty Hunters 94
AT&T Explores Parting Ways With DirecTV 59
AT&T Sued For Allegedly Inflating DirecTV Now Subscriber Numbers 19
AT&T To Lose 1.1 Million TV Subscribers As DirecTV Continues Nosedive 75
Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study 49
AT&T Employees Took Bribes To Plant Malware on the Company's Network 74
AT&T Kills DirecTV Now Brand Name As TV Subscribers Leave In Droves 73
Experts Say the DOJ Justification For T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Approval Is a Joke 98
AT&T Loses Nearly 1 Million TV Customers After Raising DirecTV Prices 75
EFF Hits AT&T With Class-Action Lawsuit For Selling Customers' Location To Bounty Hunters 53
Data Broker LocationSmart Will Fight Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling AT&T Data 30
Microsoft, AT&T Sign Cloud Deal Worth More Than $2 Billion 26
AT&T Will Automatically Block Fraud Calls For New Customers 61
AT&T Cuts Another 1,800 Jobs As It Finishes Fiber-Internet Buildout 54
WarnerMedia Scraps Plan For a Three-Tiered Streaming Service, To Package HBO, Cinemax and its Library Into One Offering For $16 to $17 a Month 61
Robocalls Can Now Get Blocked By Your Carrier By Default 150
'The Future of AT&T Is An Ad-tracking Nightmare Hellworld' 133
US Telecom Operators Say They've (Mostly) Stopped Selling Your Location Data To Shady Middlemen 52
FCC Commissioner Demands Answers From Telcos on Phone Location Data 47
Net Neutrality Bill Sails Through the House But Faces an Uncertain Political Future 233
Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses AT&T of Lying To Customers About DirecTV Now 35
Phone Carrier Apps Can Help Fight Robocalls -- Sometimes, Even For Free 69
AT&T, Comcast Announce Verification Milestone To Help Fight Robocalls 90
AT&T's 5G E Falls Short of T-Mobile and Verizon 4G Speeds: OpenSignal 28
AT&T CEO Interrupted By a Robocall During a Live Interview 139
AT&T Wins Fight With US Over Purchase of Time Warner 55
Are We Ready For 5G Phones? 85
FCC Chairman Warns of 'Regulatory Intervention' as He Criticizes Carriers' Anti-Robocall Plans 147
Sprint Sues AT&T Over 5G Branding 70
Apple Just Endorsed AT&T's Fake 5G E Network 116
Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees 117
Comcast Lowered Cable Investment Despite Net Neutrality Repeal 96
Senators Call On FCC To Investigate Carriers Selling Location Data To Bounty Hunters 60
AT&T Preps For New Layoffs Despite Billions In Tax Breaks and Regulatory Favors 180
Verizon Says It Won't Launch Fake 5G Icons Like AT&T Did 54
US Telcos Are Selling Access To Their Customers' Location Data, and That Data Reaches Bounty Hunters and Others Not Authorized To Possess It 128
AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting 283
AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon 74