AT&T prepares internal systems for shared data, launch date still TBD
We’ve known AT&T’s had shared data plans in the works for a healthy amount of time, as the GSM carrier let the cat out of the bag many seasons ago. And while Ralph de la Vega hasn’t hid his company’s aspirations from view, the network hasn’t exactly been forthcoming about when the party is going [...]
Sprint’s move to roaming agreements sends AT&T to angry town
Despite all Sprint’s efforts to promote its Network Vision plans, the carrier has been much more coy about its intentions for subscribers in the rural midwest. It was recently revealed that the company plans to divest some of its infrastructure in Oklahoma and Kansas, where the carrier will instead rely on roaming agreements for voice [...]
AT&T sideloading officially a go, designed to allow Amazon Appstore downloads
It’s the end of an era, folks. See that block of text up there? That’s AT&T’s promise not to keep you from installing whatever Android apps you choose. Starting with the Samsung Infuse 4G, you can expect the carrier’s new Google-powered phones to have that all-important “Unknown sources” box available to toggle at will. As [...]
AT&T having HSPA upload speed problems in some markets
There’s now a rather meaty thread on Mac Rumors’ forums detailing problems that iPhone 4 users have had with miserably slow upload speeds in HSPA-equipped AT&T markets — speeds that had in some cases been well over 1Mbps before the holiday weekend but have since fallen to 100kbps or lower. A popular theory is that [...]