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AT&T's iPhone "sales" versus "activations": Doing the Math

by Richard Gaywood (Jan 27th, 2012)

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science behind the hardware and software. Several sites -- including TUAW -- reported yesterday that 80% of all smartphones AT&T sold in Q411 were iPhones, based on AT&T's quarterly earnings report. On ...

AT&T: Eighty percent of smartphones sold in Q4 2011 were iPhones

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 26th, 2012)

Apple sold a blockbuster number of iPhones in Q1 2012, and these extraordinary sales trickled down to its carrier partners. In the US, the biggest beneficiary of this explosion is AT&T which announced it activated 7.6 million iPhones in the just-ending quarter. This number is about 20 percent ...

AT&T announces new smartphone data plans

by Chris Rawson (Jan 18th, 2012)

AT&T has announced new smartphone data plans, outlined below and effective January 22. This is the first significant update to AT&T's smartphone data plans in a year and a half, aside from AT&T's inclusion of an additional 2 GB of data per month for tethering customers. We've provided ...

Reports suggest 4th quarter iPhone sales very good

by Mel Martin (Jan 6th, 2012)

iPhone sales are almost always good, and when Apple reports 1st quarter sales on January 24th, all the signs point to some really excellent numbers. Earlier this week, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reported 4.2 million iPhone sales, which doubled the company's 3rd quarter numbers. Some analysts ...

AT&T expects record quarter on iPhone 4S sales

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2011)

Thanks to the success of the iPhone 4S, AT&T announced today that it expects to have its best quarter ever for sales of smartphones. In the press release from AT&T, the company noted that its network is the place where iPhone 4S users can "download three times faster and talk and surf at ...

AT&T withdrawing merger application with the FCC while pursuing win with the Justice Department

by Mel Martin (Nov 24th, 2011)

AT&T apparently believes its idea to merge with T-Mobile is headed for trouble, and today the telecommunication giant announced it has withdrawn its joint application for FCC approval ahead of what was going to be a US $39 billion dollar deal. The two companies say they are going to focus ...

AT&T raises the price of iPhone 3GS from free to $0.99, refurb for a penny

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 21st, 2011)

Last Friday AT&T generated a lot of Twitter talk (and confusion) when it raised the price of the iPhone 3GS from free with two-year contract to US$0.99 with two-year contract. The "free" price of the iPhone 3GS was noted as being a major draw for price-conscious consumers by both AT&T ...

AT&T has the fastest iPhone 4S network, Verizon the most reliable

by Steven Sande (Nov 18th, 2011)

In a smackdown between US cellular carriers AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, which network reigns supreme? That was the question answered by a new report by performance analytics firm Metrico Wireless Inc. that compared the carriers to determine who has the fastest and most reliable network. To ...

AT&T concept store uses iPads, iPhones for checkout

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 17th, 2011)

An AT&T concept store opening this weekend in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights aims to "differentiate the AT&T experience," according to AT&T retail president Paul Roth. Roth told AllThingsD that AT&T needs to do more to lure the shopper into its stores now that most ...

Better Business Bureau lists AT&T as having lowest complaint rate among mobile carriers

by Mike Schramm (Nov 12th, 2011)

Here at TUAW, we still hear plenty of complaints about AT&T's service (many of them actually directed at AT&T, but sent to us for some reason). But the Better Business Bureau says we're actually in a good spot -- AT&T apparently has the lowest amount of complaints from major ...

AT&T still top iPhone carrier in US

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 10th, 2011)

It's a three-way battle in the US for the iPhone and AT&T is keeping its lead as the #1 iPhone carrier, says data from analytics firm Localytics. Localytics collects device and carrier information from 1,500 mobile applications including those from Skype, Turner Broadcasting and News ...

T-Mobile USA hurt by iPhone 4S sales

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 10th, 2011)

T-Mobile USA will soon feel the sting of being the only carrier in the US without the iPhone 4S. As part of its quarterly earnings report, T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm said the carrier is concerned about its churn rate in the important December quarter and how it may be affected by iPhone 4S ...

AT&T Call International app offers inexpensive world calling to iPhone users

by Steven Sande (Nov 8th, 2011)

AT&T has released a free application called the AT&T Call International App that is designed to let wireless users in the U.S. make inexpensive international long distance calls with their iPhones. The service uses your existing wireless service, and you can actually use the service when ...

AT&T activates 1 million iPhone 4S handsets

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 20th, 2011)

Continuing in the vein of record iPhone launches stories, AT&T has announced it has activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S handsets as of Tuesday. They say that makes it the most successful launch in the company's history, which might explain why some customers experienced activation ...

BuddyTV app gains control over AT&T U-verse TV boxes

by Michael Rose (Oct 19th, 2011)

When last we checked in with the BuddyTV Guide app (in July), the capable recommendations and program search in the app were plenty useful. The main drawback, unfortunately, was that you could not use it to control your TV and set-top box unless you had a Google TV-powered setup or a TiVo ...