Louisiana PSC backs AT&T, T-Mobile merger
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana’s utility regulators threw their support today behind a national proposal for AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. It would give AT&T 43 percent of the state’s...
View ArticleAT&T to throttle data speeds for ‘unlimited’ users
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. said today that it’s going to start limiting speeds for the 5 percent of its customers with “unlimited” data smartphone plans who clog the airwaves the most. The measure will...
View ArticleGovernment sues to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed suit today to block AT&T’s $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers. The government contends the...
View ArticleAT&T agrees to drop bid for T-Mobile
LOS ANGELES — AT&T Inc. said today that it is ending its $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile USA after facing fierce government objections. The cellphone giant said the government’s actions to block...
View ArticleWireless phone subscribers hang up on contracts
U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans. Figures from T-Mobile USA today, added to earlier reports from other companies, indicate that the U.S. wireless industry...
View ArticleRetailers to launch mobile app for payments
NEW YORK — A bevy of big-name retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. and Target Corp., are teaming up to create a company that will give customers another way to make purchases: with...
View ArticleT-Mobile brings back unlimited data plan
NEW YORK — Unlimited wireless data is back. After sliding off the menu of cellphone plans, data plans with no caps are making a comeback at smaller cellphone companies trying to compete with AT&T...
View ArticleFCC approves T-Mobile-MetroPCS merger
The Federal Communications Commission today approved the merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS Communications Inc., the No. 4 and No. 5 cellphone carriers in the country.
View ArticleT-Mobile gets rid of contracts for cellphones
T-Mobile USA, the struggling No. 4 cellphone company, is ditching plans centered on familiar two-year contracts in favor of selling phones on installment plans.
View ArticleT-Mobile made millions in bogus charges
T-Mobile USA knowingly made hundreds of millions of dollars off its customers in potentially bogus charges, a federal regulator alleged Tuesday in a complaint likely to mar the reputation of a...
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