by Jason Wilk on April 22, 2009
- AT&T reported solid earnings today, showing little to no signs of slowing from the rough economic state. Beating the Street estimates, the death star delivered first quarter net income of $3.1 billion, or 53 cents a share, on revenue of $30.6 billion. CEO Randall Stephenson said the company continues to play through a tough economy and invest in growth areas.
Highlights:
- AT&T added 875,000 new post-paid subscribers, up 9.2 percent from last year. They now have 78.2 million total wireless subscribers (40% own a 3G device)
- Wireless data revenue is up 38.6 percent from a year ago.
- AT&T doubled the amount of text messages delivered to more than 94 billion. Wow.
- 1.6 million iPhones were activated in the first quarter (40% new to AT&T). That’s down from 1.9 million in the fourth quarter and 2.4 million in the third quarter.
- AT&T added 284,000 U-verse TV subscribers to hit a total of 1.3 million TV subs.
- Total broadband subscribers (includes 3G wireless cards) increased by 471,000 in the first quarter to hit 16.7 million.
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by David Heyerman on February 3, 2009
- The above screenshot of an AT&T branded LG phone dropped early this morning, and the source claims it to be the LG Neon. If you recognize the phone, it’s because it looks exactly like the LG KS360.
- The phone boasts a 2.4 inch touchscreen with a slide-down QWERTY keyboard, and if it’s the same as the KS360, it’ll include a 2MP digital camera with FM radio and bluetooth.
- The only two questions now are; is this a reality? …and, will the new AT&T version feature 3G, unlike it’s brother version?
by glu on December 26, 2008
- Hot on the heels of confirmed reports that both Wal-Mart and Best Buy are selling iPhones at a reduced price of $197, AT&T is now reportedly selling refurbished iPhones at an even lower price point. Not to be outdone, AT&T will offer the 8GB iPhone at $99 and the 16GB iPhone at $199 2-yr standard contract yada yada. Slick move Deathstar. Slick Move.
- On the other side of the fence, Steve Jobs must certainly be reveling in the retail maelstrom that he has orchestrated. In what will now be iPod retail wars pt. 2: The iPhone Chronicles, other retailers will certainly look to enter the fracas. Whether it sidesteps or leapfrogs, the iPhone could soon challenge a greater mobile market than just the smartphone market.
- It seems that Jobs has constructed this price fight in order to increase public perception that Apple products can be enjoyed at a reasonable price point. With rumors of either a sub-$1000 netbook style device or an iPhone Nano cued for announcement at MacWorld the timing seems perfect. Almost too perfect.
by Jason Wilk on December 26, 2008
by Jason Wilk on December 5, 2008
- Speaking at the Symbian Partner Event in San Francisco yesterday, an AT&T executive made some bold claims as to what the companies strategy is going to be for the next 5 years.
- Roger Smith, director of next generation services for AT&T discussed how the company will move forward with their smart phone strategy. The company wants to standardize their smart phones on a single operating system as part of their “dramatic consolidation” of mobile platforms initiative taking place throughout the next few years.
- Smart phones, by 2014, will make up the majority of phones connecting to AT&T’s network, and they want to make sure that they have a ubiquitious platform (aside from the iPhone) that will cut down on technical issues and increase third party involvement in developing applications.
- What’s interesting here? AT&T wants to go with an open-source mobile platform and it’s not Google’s Android. Smith said that Symbian is “a very credible and likely candidate” to become that one operating system.
- Nokia just completed its acquisition of Symbian, the largest mobile operating platform provider, which plans to go entirely open-source. Over 77 million phones were sold usig Symbian last year.
- This is a surprising move for a big carrier to want to shift to an entire open platform, since in the past they have been notorious for wanting to stay in full control and lock up the decks.
- This could have been a huge get for Google if they could have convinced AT&T to jump on board with their own Android platform, which so far has only been embraced by one carrier and one manufacturer (supposedly two now); T-Mobile and HTC. Android has been poorly recieved thus far, despite 1 million phones projected to be shipped through its first quarter. Besides AT&T, Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse has publicly said that ‘he doesn’t think Android is ready yet’.
- With the pace at which smart phones are growing and the time frame the big carriers are placing on choosing what the future of their phone platforms will be, Google may be missing out hugely. Their whole idea of a mobile OS being open is a success in some sense considering the carriers are looking to move in that direction, however Google is not going to be the one getting credit for it.
- Whether or not Google is at the healm, this is a good day for the mobile industry. Nokia, Symbian and AT&T are doing their part to raise te bar for mobile standards. Once open everywhere, major strides can be made.
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