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Carriers accept high iPhone subsidies for now

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 21st, 2012)

It's widely believed that US carriers pay a lot for the iPhone. A perfect example is Sprint which signed an estimated US$15 billion deal for the iPhone and won't make money off the handset until 2015. AllThingsD presents several compelling reasons why Sprint and other US wireless carriers are ...

Pay-per-unit appears to go MIA on AT&T for some iPhone users

by Erica Sadun (May 10th, 2012)

In April, AT&T ended a policy of offering data feature packs to its lowest end Pay as You Go plans (specifically, the $1/day and the $0.10/minute plans). At that time, TUAW was told by an AT&T spokesperson that customers on those plans could still pay a pay-per-unit (PPU) rate for data, ...

AT&T kills cheap data. I'm still cranky.

by Erica Sadun (May 8th, 2012)

It's been a couple of weeks now since I learned that AT&T hated me. Okay, maybe not personally, but certainly they hate the way I use data. If you haven't been following along with this story it goes like this. I received a text from AT&T, telling me that my US$5 autorenewal data ...

AT&T considers "Family Plans" for wireless data

by Erica Sadun (May 8th, 2012)

During an interview with CNET, AT&T's mobile business CEO Ralph de la Vega revealed the company would soon introduce a family data plan. This would allow customers to buy a sharable data bucket, letting that purchased bandwidth be used across multiple devices. de la Vega told CNET that he ...

T-Mobile CEO: network getting ready for iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 8th, 2012)

During a CTIA event and in a press release, T-Mobile outlined the plan for its 4G LTE network, which will be available nationwide by the end of 2013. Buried in the press release is a tidbit of information about T-Mobile's 1900 MHz spectrum that'll interest iPhone owners. T-Mobile confirmed ...

Cheap data just got cheaper at AT&T [Updated with bad news]

by Erica Sadun (Apr 25th, 2012)

I just got the nicest surprise on my iPhone. I don't know how long this has been going on, but my AT&T Pay as You Go feature packs just got much, much better. If you're a PayGo customer for an old iPhone like I am (I use PayGo with my 3GS), your $5 now buys you 50MB. Here's a quick ...

HTC blames iPhone 4S for recent profit drop

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 24th, 2012)

HTC is still stinging from a less than impressive quarterly earnings that's partially the result of a successful iPhone 4S campaign by Apple, according to an AP report. The Taiwanese handset manufacturer saw a 70 percent drop in profit and a 35 percent decrease in revenue year over year. Though ...

AT&T to release Watson voice recognition APIs

by Erica Sadun (Apr 19th, 2012)

AT&T will be releasing developer application-programmer interfaces (APIs) for its Watson speech engine this June, according to a write-up over at the Verge. Developers will be able to add voice recognition features to their applications by integrating AT&T programming calls. The APIs will ...

AT&T expands its 4G LTE network

by Steven Sande (Apr 19th, 2012)

AT&T reported that it is continuing the expansion of its 4G LTE network throughout the US, with Akron and Canton, Ohio and Lafayette, Indiana being added to the list. AT&T is promising 4G LTE expansion to 12 cities by summer, including Cleveland, Ohio; Baton Rouge and New Orleans, ...

Daily Update for April 10, 2012

by Steven Sande (Apr 10th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

AT&T spending more to launch the Lumia than it did on the iPhone (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 10th, 2012)

AT&T is investing heavily in the Nokia Lumia 900 and spending more money on the Windows Phone handset launch than it did on the iPhone, according to a report in Ad Age. The wireless carrier may be spending as much as US$150 million to advertise the phone, which is an AT&T exclusive. ...

US carriers agree to national stolen phone database

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 10th, 2012)

According to a Wall Street Journal report, four of the largest wireless carriers in the US are working with the US government to create a national stolen phone database. Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile will develop their own databases and then merge them into a centralized ...

AT&T appears to be unlocking iPhones for deployed active duty military personnel

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 10th, 2012)

Image by Shutterstock A couple of days ago we got a tip from a reader who said he'd sent a letter to Tim Cook asking "for help to unlock my wife's iPhone, because she is active duty military deploying to Afghanistan this week. I wanted her to have an unlocked phone in Afghanistan, so that she ...

Daily Update for April 9, 2012

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 9th, 2012)

AT&T's iPhone unlocking process simple but time-consuming

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 9th, 2012)

AT&T began unlocking iPhones this weekend. The unlocking process is being described as easy but long, according to a report on Electronista and forum posts at iMore. Customers only need to provide their phone's IMEI to AT&T online or in a store, and then they wait for Apple to unlock ...