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Posted June 1, 2011 • 1 comment

While we were all getting some needed sleep last night, filings in support of our merger with T-Mobile continued to flood the FCC.  The broad array of groups and elected officials who recognize the benefits of this transaction is clearly growing.  Here’s just a sampling of the latest… Highlighting what this merger will do to…

Posted May 31, 2011 • 4 comments

There’s a lot of activity at the FCC today as interested parties continue to weigh in on our merger with T-Mobile.  To be sure, the usual suspects opposing the transaction are working to create the impression their support is growing.  It’s not.  In fact, the opposite is true.  Today, we’ll begin to see evidence of…

Posted May 27, 2011

In our latest mythbusters blog, we take on the claims that AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile will somehow kill the explosive innovation that is currently reshaping the global wireless marketplace of devices, apps and network technologies.  With appropriate credit to Mark Twain, I must proclaim that the reports of innovation’s death have been greatly exaggerated.  The…

Posted May 23, 2011

Since the day we announced our proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Sprint has been alleging that the deal should be blocked because, as a result of the combination, consumer prices will go up.  Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse, repeated this claim at the Senate Judiciary hearing on May 11.   For Sprint, which is coming off a quarter where…

Posted May 20, 2011

In our latest installment of our series debunking myths, I’m going to address Sprint’s throw-it-on-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks claim that AT&T currently has the largest licensed spectrum holdings of any wireless carrier and that, rather than deploying our spectrum, we are warehousing it.  The first is a particularly odd accusation coming from Sprint given that Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse, has…

Posted May 20, 2011

Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain yesterday introduced the Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011, legislation that would allocate additional spectrum to public safety.  The following statement may be attributed to Tim McKone, AT&T’s Executive Vice President of Federal Relations: “Senators Lieberman and McCain have introduced a thoughtful and comprehensive bill that lays out groundwork…

Posted May 18, 2011

My colleague, Joan Marsh, has done a concise job of addressing the question of whether it is really a good idea to require tens of millions of consumers to have to go out and buy new cell phones.  Now, I’d like to address, less concisely, but just as importantly, some of the statements made during last…

Posted May 17, 2011 • 1 comment

A lot of myths were perpetuated by some witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing last Wednesday regarding our proposed acquisition of T-Mobile.  The enemy of myth is, of course, fact, and over the next several days, we will debunk these myths in a series of blogs.  So, stay tuned. To start, I want to…

Posted May 12, 2011

By Gail Torreano, AT&T SVP-Employee Communications and Global Sponsorships  AT&T has a long history of encouraging responsible phone use behind the wheel.  This is particularly important because motor vehicle crashes still remain the leading cause of death of young people, according to statistics released at the launch of the first UN-Sanctioned Decade of Action for…

Posted May 12, 2011

By Eric Loeb, AT&T Vice President of International, External and Regulatory Affairs  In January, President Obama instructed each agency to improve regulation within their responsibility, by ensuring alignment between current regulation and policies that will both protect public welfare and promote economic growth, innovation and competitiveness.   With focused effort within five months, today the FCC shows…