3 posts and columns on AT&T Mobility

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AT&T to New York and San Francisco: We're Working on It

in News on December 9, 2009 at 7:48 am PT

The head of AT&T’s wireless unit said Wednesday that the carrier is working to improve its network for iPhone and other smart-phone subscribers in New York and San Francisco. Manhattan and San Francisco, particularly the city’s financial district, “are performing at levels below our standards,” Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, said at an investors conference.

Fool! You Fell Victim to One of the Classic Blunders! Never Negotiate with Steve Jobs…

in News on July 14, 2009 at 3:36 am PT

Apple is doing to the wireless industry what it did to the recording industry beginning back in 2001: Stealing its customer relationships. That’s the gist of an argument put forth this week by Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett, who believes that with the iPhone and App Store, Apple has upended the wireless market in much the same way it upended the music industry with the iPod and iTunes.
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Pre Historic: Analysts React to Palm Announcements

in News on January 9, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Palm’s long-suffering investors have apparently drunk themselves silly on Palm Pre Kool-Aid. Shares of the much diminished handset maker climbed almost seven percent to $4.45 Thursday after the company uncrated the device and Web OS, the new platform it will run on. Wall Street seems convinced that the Pre is not a postscipt for Palm, but the beginnings of its rebirth. A historic turning point worthy of a trading bacchanal.