DirectTV, owned by telco giant AT&T and Charlie Ergen’s DISH Network are reportedly in “early stage” talks to merge their pay-TV businesses. The report from Bloomberg says a successful merger would create the largest pay-TV platform in North America with around 16 million subscribers. There have been talks about a merger between the two players […]
AT&T’s CEO John Stankey has praised AST SpaceMobile in an interview on CNBC, saying: “Satellite constellations are going to be great. People are going to have always on connectivity, there will be no more [dead spaces] and this is why we are doing what we are doing with AST which will make sure that your […]
Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology. Under this agreement, Nokia will provide its Lightspan MF and Altiplano platforms to support one of the largest fibre networks in the world. The five-year deal will include fibre network upgrades to AT&T’s current footprint and next-generation fibre technologies for future […]
A panel of the National Advertising Review Board (NARB), the appellate advertising body of BBB National Programs, recommended that AT&T Services. discontinue or modify the claim that Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) is currently available to AT&T consumers in the US. The advertising at issue had been challenged by T-Mobile US, Inc. before BBB National […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has settled a claim from some shareholders relating to the 2022 merger of AT&T’s Warner Bros and Discovery. They had claimed the $43 billion deal was too preferential to bigger sharedholders. Now, through mediation, the two sides have agreed to a $125 million settlement that will bring the lawsuit to an […]
US telco giant AT&T is already a financial backer of AST SpaceMobile (and has guaranteed a $20 million revenue commitment). AST plans on circling the globe with its ‘direct-to-cellular’ satellite service. Unconfirmed reports suggest that AT&T expects some 30-40 per cent of its US clients to take a low-cost add-on service for connection to AST […]
Recently it was asked if AST SpaceMobile, the would-be Direct-to-Cellular satellite business, could beat off competition from Space X’s Starlink and other rivals. It now seems that Verizon, along with AT&T, believes AST can make a very major impact on North American cellular connectivity. Verizon put $100 million into AST’s business and in the process […]
AST SpaceMobile has claimed it could be a rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink. At the moment it has just one test-satellite in orbit but has successfully trialled ‘direct-to-smartphone’ calls using the craft. AT&T has signed a multi-year commercial contract with AST. May 15th saw the operator release its Q1 numbers, and confirm the AT&T contract […]
Mexican telco Grupo Televisa has reached an agreement with AT&T for the acquisition of its participation in Sky Mexico, by which the company would become owner of 100 per cent of Sky’s capital stock. As part of this agreement, the transaction price would be paid by the company in 2027 and 2028. The transaction is […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has published its proposed framework which could allow satellite operators to use spectrum from terrestrial cellular businesses for their smartphone connections, and when beyond the reach of conventional mobile towers. Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC chair, says the final draft of rules have been sent to the regulator’s other four Commissioners that, […]