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So What Did Mom Get?

Now that Mother's Day has come and gone -- and I hope it was a happy day for all! -- curious to know what gadget mom got? You mean you stuck with flowers and candy?! We went for a...

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AT&T Can't Make Up Its Mind

What's a major telco to do when it can't make up its mind? Put things on the website one day and then remove them the next? Here ya go? AT&T has flip-flopped again on whether iPhone customers can get...

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AT&T To Give iPhone Wi-Fi Hotspot Access?

We can never get enough iPhone news or juicy rumors, so here we go again! According to MacRumors, AT&T's iPhone website (under the Plans tab) has been updated to note that each iPhone plan now includes access to their...

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Telcos Join Forces to Battle Skype?

According to analysts at ThinkAnton (ThinkPanmure), AT&T and other international incumbents plan on launching a global Skype competitor. "We believe that AT&T, in conjunction with perhaps 10-15 other incumbent operators such as British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and NTT, is preparing...

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Who's the Best in Cell Carrier Land?

Been thinking about changing cell phone companies again and wanted to find out what the faithful readers of this blog have to say about the various companies. Let's see ... I've been on Sprint, AT&T and Verizon over the years,...

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AT&T to Lay Off 1.5% of Workforce

AT&T announced today that it'll be cutting about 1.5 percent of its workforce. The company calls it the "next step in streamlining its operations." AT&T had about 310,000 employees at the end of 2007, meaning the layoffs would affect about...

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AT&T CallVantage Major Outage...

I have received an unconfirmed report of a major outage for AT&T CallVantage, which is AT&T's VoIP broadband service. I was emailed the following: "At 2:00 pm the voice system is now stating that they have a major outage." Gee,...

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AT&T U-Verse Batteries Exploding

AT&T just can't catch a break with their troubled U-Verse service. AT&T has to replace the lithium metal polymer batteries in the VRAD cabinets for U-Verse IPTV because four fires have occurred in various locations. 'Fire' is a bit...

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Buh Bye Payphone

RTTNews is reporting that AT&T will quit payphone business by 2008 due to competition from cell phones. According to the Federal Communications Commission, the number of pay phones nationally has dwindled to 1 million as of 2006 from 2.08 million...

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flashphone Beta Running on Adobe Flash launches

As you know, I've discussed Adobe getting into VoIP in the past where you can use a 100% Flash softphone application. Since the vast majority of PCs, Macs, PockePCs, Windows Mobile, and other operating systems all have Flash installed, in...

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AT&T U-verse DVR Throughout the Home

AT&T U-verse customers have been complaining about lack of DVR (Digital Video Recorder) support that works throughput the home. Sure, you can get a single DVR box, but you can't view the recorded (or paused) content in the rest of...

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AT&T Delaying Deployment of Competitors' fiber lines?

Connecticut's Public Utiltiy Control could impose rewards or penalties that level the playing field for telecom and cable providers of voice and broadband service who say the owners of utility poles have been unfairly delaying utility pole connections for fiber-optic cable....

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AT&T Boosts EDGE Speed for iPhone?

AT&T customers are seeing a sudden boost in EDGE speeds - reaching 200kbps, seemingly coinciding with the Apple iPhone launch. EDGE users are ecstatic over the speed bump. In fact, I overheard some iPhone users saying "Prepare iPhone for 2.5G...

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AT&T U-Verse Chance Encounter - What are the odds?

Late last week, I wrote about how I went into Best Buy and ran into an AT&T U-Verse sales rep pitching their U-Verse product. Well, over the weekend, I received an email from this same sales rep that I met...

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AT&T U-Verse offering 1 Year FREE of DISH Network

Yesterday, I was in Best Buy (Norwalk, CT store) walking past the TV section when I was approached by a guy standing by a table. He handed me some AT&T U-Verse literature and proceeded to pitch me on signing up...

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AT&T Finally Bundles VoIP & Wireless Cell Phone Service

According to USA Today, AT&T is promoting their CallVantage VoIP service by bundling their cellphone service along with AT&T CallVantage, a broadband VoIP landline replacement service. AT&T Wireless users can add CallVantage for $19.99 monthly, a $5 discount.   I've...

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VoIP Patents run amok

We have all been following the various VoIP patent lawsuits. From the Rates Technology vs. Google Talk lawsuit, to Apple vs Cisco iPhone lawsuit, Verizon vs. Vonage patent infringement and many more. Well, Production Ad Absurdam has a couple of...

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AT&T Lightspeed ahead! (NOT!)

AT&T won't be reaching 18 million homes this year with its "Lightspeed" U-Verse IPTV & VDSL broadband network, giving more credence to my AT&T U-Verse Doomed? article. The ironic thing is that AT&T just a few days go stated it...

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AT&T U-verse Doomed?

Many have heard of the difficulties in implementing AT&T's U-verse IPTV service. AT&T's U-verse network is actually a fiber/copper hybrid, which pulls fibers to 3,000 to 5,000 feet from the homes they serve, where it then connects to mini-DSLAMs called...

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Wheeling and Dealing: Why iPhone Won't Be at Verizon

The art of the deal ... Now it's not surprising that Apple's iPhone would wind up with Cingular (er, I mean AT&T), but wouldn't you like to know why -- or at least why it didn't end up with a...

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AT&T Unity brings voice minutes closer to free

The NY Times is reporting that AT&T customers who subscribe to both its Cingular Wireless and traditional phone services can now make and receive unlimited free calls to and from any other AT&T or Cingular customer. The new AT&T Unity...

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Why Does Apple Have To Charge More for Faster Wi-Fi?

Hey, I'm all for companies making a buck on the products ands services they provide us consumers, but why does Apple have to charge $1.99 a month for faster wireless service on some of its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops?...

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Cingular To Become AT&T (Say What?)

Honestly, who can keep track of all of the Baby Bells, Ma Bell, the wireless services providers -- wasn't it supposed to be easier after the breakup of AT&T that began in 1974 with the U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust suit against the telephone monopoly....

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Extreme Home Makeover adds VoIP and Video to fire station

Nortel, AT&T Texas and TANDBERG teamed up to provide ABC's hit reality show, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" with a state-of-the-art communications system for a fire station in southeast Texas damaged by Hurricane Rita. The Sabine Pass Fire Station No....

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AT&T/BellSouth: Will Cingular Get Any Better?

Much hubbub yesterday and of course this morning about the AT&T deal to buy BellSouth.And while these deals are great for the deal brokers and company executives, they have mixed results when it comes to making the winning company any...

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AT&T buys BellSouth for $67 billion

BREAKING! - AT&T to buy BellSouth for $67 billion. AT&T will soon be the big Ma Bell it once used to be. Ah yes, the glory days of a monopolistic telecom industry. The "Cingular" brand will also be phased out...

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Cingular to offer unlimited calling to AT&T

TechDirt has an interesting post about how Cingular is testing a program where its customers can make unlimited calls to AT&T landlines for $6 a month. $6 bucks per month just to have unlimited calls to AT&T landlines? That's just...

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New AT&T logo

With all the news today about Cingular dropping their name in favor of using the AT&T brand, I thought you might be interesting in seeing AT&T's new logo....

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Xingtone: Ring Tones Were Meant To Be Free

Why should you pay $2.99 for a 20-second clip of music that isn’t your first choice or from a song you already own as the ring tone for your cell phone?  Xingtone’s Ringtone Maker 4.1 enables cell phone users to...

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FCC screws the VoIP industry AGAIN!

After the recent Senate action forcing the FCC to back down from cutting off access to VoIP subscribers, it appears the FCC has found a new hoop for the VoIP service providers to jump through, which I will explain in...

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AT&T solves 911?

AT&T says it has solved the nomaic 911 problem. Yeah, we've heard that one before. Nevertheless, AT&T claims it has solved the issue of VoIP users that call 911 from hotels and other remote locations.AT&T's nomadic solution, called Heartbeat, tracks...

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AT&T 2nd Quarter Financials

AT&T announced their financials for Q2 and I'm not impressed. For the AT&T Consumer section, revenue was $1.6 billion, a decline of 20.8 percent versus the prior-year second quarter. According to AT&T, this was "largely driven by a decline in...

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AT&T goes after Enterprise VoIP Trunking

AT&T and Cisco partner up to offer 2¢ per minute on all outbound calls within the U.S. to any company that has broadband service, such as DSL, T1, etc. I just got this news via email now. Wow, looks like...

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AT&T CallVantage Numbers Disappoint

If you read my blog, then you know that AT&T has been very guarded about it's AT&T CallVantage customer numbers. Skibare has emailed me several times asking if I knew AT&T's CallVantage's numbers. Since I'm always busy doing something (testing...

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AT&T CallVantage Slows Down Broadband Throughput

Interesting VoIP Forum posting. Any takers to answer his question?I just added AT&T Callvantage to my home network. I had upgraded to Comcast's Home Worker/Teleworker option. Realized speeeds of 6 Mbps down and 768Kbps up. Once I put that MTA...

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AT&T CallVantage Small Office Plan

AT&T CallVantage announced their CallVantage Small Office Plan yesterday..Here's the release in case you missed it...February 8, 2005 - BEDMINSTER, N.J. – AT&T announced today the immediate availability of its AT&T CallVantage® Small Office Plan targeting Small Office/Home Office (SOHO)...

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AT&T buy shows how far voice calling has fallen

Yet another story putting a VoIP spin on the AT&T/SBC merger as well as all the other potential mega-telecom mergers happening. AT&T buy shows how far voice calling has fallen | CNET News.com...

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AT&T CallVantage Outage

I meant to blog the AT&T CallVantage outage this morning, but wanted to confirm some info with one of my sources first. Apparently, this past Thursday (1/13/2005), AT&T CallVantage experienced an outage in at least Virginia and parts of New...

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AT&T CallVantage New Features

Gary Morgenstern from AT&T sent TMC an email regarding AT&T CallVantage's new features. The AT&T email states: This is the single largest introduction of new feature and capabilities to AT&T CallVantage Service since its initial launch last March 29. With...

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AT&T CallVantage and Buy.com

I was in Circuit City this past Thursday buying a Disney Mickey Mouse television as a birthday gift for my wife when I took a stroll by the computer section. I saw lots of VoIP broadband service providers on the...

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AT&T CallVantage Public Company, Private VoIP Numbers

I recently wrote that someone asked me if I knew what the AT&T CallVantage (VoIP) customer numbers were. He said that the number of AT&T's CallVantage customers "SUCK so badly compared to VONAGE who is kicking AT&T around the block...

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AT&T CallVantage number of customers

Someone asked me if I knew what the AT&T CallVantage customer numbers were. He said that the number of AT&T's CallVantage customers "SUCK so badly compared to VONAGE who is kicking AT&T around the block on voip numbers." He may...

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AT&T CallVantage and TigerDirect

AT&T CallVantage Service is now available through TigerDirect. TigerDirect joins Amazon.com, Best Buy and Circuit City in the retail channel to market CallVantage's VoIP services. What about Walmart? Whoever (Vonage, CallVantage, Lingo, etc.) lands Walmart deserves some extra kudos. FOR...

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AT&T CallVantage Behind Router

One of the knocks against AT&T CallVantage was that it doesn't work behind your existing home router/firewall. Their nemesis, Vonage, is able to handle being behind or in front of a firewall - a huge competitive advantage, especially for the...

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AT&T and LinkSys VoIP deal

It came as no surprise to me that AT&T and LinkSys would ink a deal to offer AT&T CallVantage on Linksys's home broadband router product line. Now, LinkSys has special VoIP customization for Vonage, AT&T CallVantage, and Verizon VoiceWing. The...

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Vonage, AT&T, and Covad go at it

A blogger has an interesting take on the VoIP panel that occured at Web 2.0. In particular, he notes the recent price war between Vonage and AT&T and some heated back-and-forth discussions between AT&T & Vonage that made the vice-presidential...

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AT&T and D-Link ink VoIP deal

D-Link logo AT&T and D-link have inked a deal with AT&T. Engineers have worked closely with AT&T to implement Quality of Service (QoS) for more reliable connections and sound quality.Through this joint engineering effort with AT&T, D-Link became the...

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AT&T CallVantage Lowers Price

As part of its continuing efforts to spur growth in emerging technologies, AT&T today announced it is lowering the price of AT&T CallVantage(SM) Service, its popular residential broadband phone service, from $34.99 to $29.99 per month beginning October 1. That's...

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AT&T CallVantage and Circuit City news

Add another retaler to the VoIP mix... Tomorrow, Circuit City will start selling AT&T CallVantage broadband phone services in many of its outlets and through its Web site, the two companies said yesterday. I should point out that CallVantage is...

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AT&T forms VoIP Innovation and Interoperability Program

AT&T announced a VoIP Innovation and Interoperability Program - kinda reminds me of the TMC Labs Innovation Awards which covers innovative VoIP and call center products. Andy Abramson's VoIPWatch has some comments on this here you should go check...

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AT&T CallVantage Adds more Advanced Features

AT&T today announced another round of new feature enhancements for AT&T CallVantage Service including the availability of "Simple Reach Number," a new capability that enables subscribers to have up to nine additional telephone numbers for their service in any available...

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AT&T suckers the Cable Companies on VoIP broadband service

I've been meaning to comment on this Cnet article from last week: AT&T won't mess up again - News - ZDNet It's an interview with AT&T's David Dorman where he talks about AT&T's future direction with VoIP and their recent...

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AT&T David Dorman interview on VoIP and AT&T's plans

Andy Abramson's blog brought to my attention an interesting interview of AT&T's David Dorman where he discusses AT&T's future direction, including how VoIP will play in AT&T's plans. Overall, Dorman does a good job at deflecting some of the "rumors"...

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AT&T is not a phone company - they're "a networking company"

Fool.com: Ma Bell Up for Sale? [Motley Fool Take] August 23, 2004 This article has an interesting "theory" that with AT&T's latest financial and marketing moves, including a strong push for VoIP offerings (AT&T CallVantage), that AT&T is setting itself...

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AT&T Surrenders Residential Market? I don't think so!

This VoIP article titled "Competition: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow" just confirms what I blogged several days ago - that AT&T is not "surrendering" the residential market. In fact, it bears repeating a quote from my blog entry, AT&T The Sleeping...

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AT&T makes deal with the devil (cable companies)

I was reading on Cnet and several other news outlets that AT&T struck some deals with Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Charter Communications. But have they struck a deal with the devil? Will the cable companies turn on...

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MCI deploys Ericsson's VoIP Engine solution

Ericsson and MCI Inc. today announced an agreement to deploy Ericsson's Engine solution to migrate MCI's US-based international gateway traffic from traditional circuit switching to carrier-class Voice over IP (VoIP). Building on its domestic VoIP migration plans, announced in June...

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AT&T CallVantage VoIP calls blocked

Some VoIP calls being blocked | CNET News.com Cnet.com has reported that some users are having issue receiving inbound calls. This has once again raised the issue of whether or not cable broadband companies are blocking VoIP calls. I discussed...

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AT&T the Sleeping Giant Awakens to blitzkrieg the VoIP market

So every industry pundit is claiming that AT&T has surrendered to the Baby Bells, but I know better. Here are some headlines: AT&T surrenders fight for home telephone services AT&T Gives Up on Consumer Market AT&T rings in a new...